Ortahisar Trip Overview
You will be picked up by our stuff from your hotel early in the morning and transferred to airport for your flight to Cappadocia. We will do Green tour of Cappadocia and we will visit:Goreme Panoramic View Point,Derinkuyu Underground City,Ihlara Valley,Belisirma Village,Selime Monastery,Pigeon Valley,Onyx Valuable Stones Workshop.
Goreme Panoramic View Point,Derinkuyu Underground City,Ihlara Valley,Belisirma Village,Selime Monastery,Pigeon Valley,Onyx Valuable Stones Workshop
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Duration: 7 to 8 hours
Starts: Ortahisar, Turkey
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Ortahisar, Cappadocia, Turkey
You will be picked up by our stuff from your hotel early in the morning and transferred to airport for your flight to Cappadocia. We will do Green tour of Cappadocia and we will visit:Goreme Panoramic View Point,Derinkuyu Underground City,Ihlara Valley,Belisirma Village,Selime Monastery,Pigeon Valley,Onyx Valuable Stones Workshop.
Goreme Panoramic View Point,Derinkuyu Underground City,Ihlara Valley,Belisirma Village,Selime Monastery,Pigeon Valley,Onyx Valuable Stones Workshop
Itinerary
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Stop At: Derinkuyu Yeralti Sehri, Derinkuyu Turkey
Derinkuyu Underground City, has all the usual amenities found in other underground complexes across Cappadocia, such as wine and oil presses, stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, and chapels. Unique to the Derinkuyu complex and located on the second floor is a spacious room with a barrel vaulted ceiling. It has been reported that this room was used as a religious school and the rooms to the left were studies. Between the third and fourth levels is a vertical staircase. This passage way leads to a cruciform church on the lowest level. The large 55 m ventilation shaft appears to have been used as a well. The shaft also provided water to both the villagers above and, if the outside world was not accessible, to those in hiding.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Ihlara Valley, Guzelyurt 68500 Turkey
Ihlara Valley, The township is famed for the nearby valley of the same name, Ihlara Valley, which is a 16 km (10 mi) long gorge cut into volcanic rock in the southern part of Cappadocia, following several eruptions of Mount Erciyes. Through the valley flows Stream. What is unique about this valley is the ancient history of its inhabitants. The whole canyon is honeycombed with rock-cut underground dwellings and churches from the Byzantine period. Due that the richness of the watering possibility and its hidden form and easily to hide structure it was the first settlement place of the first Christians escaping from the Roman soldiers. In the Ihlara Valley there are hundreds of antic churches caved in the volcanic rocks. The most known churches are Ağaçaltı Church with cross plan, Sümbüllü Church, Pürenliseki Church, Kokar Church, Yilanli Church, Karagedik Church, Kirkdamatli Church, Direkli Church, Ala Church, Kemerli Church and Egritas Church.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Selime Monastery, Guzelyurt Turkey
Selime Monastery.Here is also known as a cathedral and oldest cathedral of Cappadocia. You will see kitchen, missionary school,church,small churches while visiting here. But it is a little difficult to see frecoes. Somebody says a few chapters of Starwars movie taken from here or desired take here. There is a excellent landscape on roof.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Goreme, Goreme, Cappadocia
Goreme Panaroma, The most magnificent landscape around Göreme has been formed from its solidified lava streams, its ash and tuff stone, all dating from Neocene period. It is criss-crossed by deep valleys formed by heavy erosion. This veritable lunar landscape distinguishes itself by its extensive geological formations. The highly typical morphological structures of Cappadocia are the result of thousands of years of continual erosion, which has shaped the tuff deposits into the strangest pyramids and cones.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Belisirma, Belisirma, Aksaray Province
Belisirma, experience the wonderful different types of Turkish foods. Make your lunch a memorable one by having lunch next to the Melendiz Stream
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Yaprakhisar Koyu, Yaprakhisar Koyu, Aksaray Province
Yaprakhisar, panaroma point for another view of the great Monastery
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Pigeon Valley, Uchisar KasabasI Nevşehir Kapadokya, Goreme 50240 Turkey
Pigeon Valley, thousands of pigeon houses carved into the rock. It is a surreal vision: an outrageously phallic landscape straight out of a Salvador Dali painting. The conical formations are the result of volcanic eruptions that took place millions of years ago. Eons of wind, rain and other forces of nature have eaten away at the volcanic rock creating tufa, a soft and malleable stone. Many of these cones, known as fairy chimneys, contain caves and labyrinths
Duration: 20 minutes
