ISTANBUL-CAPPADOCIA TOUR BY PLANE

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TURKEY TOUR #2 ( 2 DAYS / 1 NIGHT)

TOUR ITINERARY 

DAY 1 : ISTANBUL – CAPPADOCIA

Tour starts early morning with an approximately 1 hour flight to Kayseri Airport near Cappadocia region.
 
Transfer from your hotel in Istanbul to Ataturk Airport early in the morning
Flight from Istanbul to Kayseri Airport. Roughly 1 hour flight
Transfer and check in to your hotel before the tour.
Full day Northern Cappadocia tour including transfers, guide and entrance fee. This tour will cover the most famous parts of the region such as Goreme Open Air Museum, Zelve, Urgup and Dervent Valley. Lunch will be served during the tour in a nice Turkish Restaurant.
Transfer to your hotel at the end of the tour..
Hotel accommodation in Cappadocia.
 

Amazing rock formations	Frescoes in a church	Cave house accommodations

DAY 2 : CAPPADOCIA – ISTANBUL

One day is never enough to see the wonders of the vast Cappadocia region. You have so many things more to see on your second day. The second day's itinerary will be like this:

Breakfast in your hotel included
Full day Southern Cappadocia Tour including transfers, entrance fees and lunch. This tour will cover wonderful Rose Valley, either Derinkuyu or Kaymakli underground city, as well as a caravanserai of Seljuk period, which was the great Turkish Empire founded in Anatolia even before Ottomans.
Lunch in a typical Turkish Restaurant during the day tour.
Transfer to Kayseri or Nevsehir Airport after the tour.
Evening flight to Istanbul.
End of our service with your arrival to Ataturk airport.
(Optional hotel transfer extra 30 Euro for 1-3 pax)

 

TOUR PRICING

Summer Rates (April 01-October 31)
410 Euro per person in single room (1 pax)
370 Euro per person in double room (2 pax)
350 Euro per person in triple room (3 pax)

Winter Rates (November 01-March 31 - except December 23-January 03 Christmas period)
360 Euro per person in single room (1 pax)
320 Euro per person in double room (2 pax)
310 Euro per person in triple room (3 pax)

Attention !
* Itinerary can be changed/customized because of flight availabilities.
* Occasionally, higher prices may apply based on flight costs, especially on special days or weekends. Early reservation is highly recommended to secure these prices.
* Ask for group discount for participants over 7 pax

Above tour prices include:
All taxes. (Various surcharges apply for credit card payments about which you will be informed in advance)
1 night accommodation in private rooms at 3 star or equal quality special class/boutique hotels. Hotel upgrade possible, if requested.
2 Cappadocia guided in English with lunch. (Please ask for private tours in other languages)
Entrance fees for museums
2 way domestic flight tickets as mentioned in the itinerary.
All connecting transfers in between the tour period.

Possible additions :
Hot air balloon flight at sunrise before the tour on the 2nd day: 135 Euro per person discounted price
Airport hotel transfers in Istanbul for your international flights.
Hotel accommodation in Istanbul before or after the tour with discounted rates.
Daily Istanbul Tours with discounted rates as a part of this package.
Extra hotel accommodation in Cappadocia, if requested.
Hotel upgrade possible, if requested.
 

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PAYMENT AND RESERVATION

Depending on tour type, season, number of participants we will request some 15-30% of the total service cost in advance to finalize reservation procedures. We will send you a detailed reservation contract by e-mail after availability, dates and all details are confirmed mutually.

For payments we accept Visa, Master and American Express credit cards. Online payments with PayPal is also accepted, which is a good option for people who want to make secure payment. We normally meet our clients upon their arrival  to Istanbul to handle balance of payment when we also provide further details, necessary vouchers and documents related with the reserved tour.   Final payments can be also made cash in US Dollars, British Pounds or other internationally accepted currencies from cross rates valid on the payment date.


 

CAPPADOCIA

In ancient geography, Cappadocia or Cappadocia (Turkish: Kapadokya) was the name of the extensive inland district of Asia Minor (modern Turkey).

Cappadocian region is the place where nature and history come together most beautifully within the world. While geographic events are forming Peribacalari (fairy chimneys), during the historical period, humans had carried the signs of thousand years old civilizations with carving houses and churches within these earth pillars and decorating them with frisks.

Cappadocia contains several underground cities, largely used by early Christians as hiding places before they became a legitimate religion. The Cappadocian Fathers of the fourth century were integral to much of early Christian philosophy. It also produced, among other people, another Patriarch of Constantinople, John of Cappadocia who held office 517–520. For most of the Byzantine era it remained relatively undisturbed by the conflicts in the area, first with the Sassanid Empire and later against the Islamic expansion led by Arabs.

The area is a world famous and popular tourist destination, as it has many areas with unique geological, historic and cultural features.

The region is southwest of the major city Kayseri, which has airline and railroad service to Ankara and Istanbul.

The Cappadocia region is largely underlain by sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams, and ignimbrite deposits erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately 9 to 3 million years ago (late Miocene to Pliocene epochs). The rocks of Cappadocia near Goreme eroded into hundreds of spectacular pillars and minaret-like forms. The volcanic deposits are soft rocks that the people of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia Region carved out to form houses, churches, monasteries. Goreme became a monastic center between 300-1200 AD. First period settlement in Goreme reaches to the Roman period from Christianity. Yusuf Koc, Ortahane, Durmus Kadir and Bezirhane churches in Goreme, houses and churches carved into rocks till to Uzun Dere, Baglidere and Zemi Valley carries the mystical side of history today. The Goreme Open Air Museum is the most visited site of the monastic communities in Cappadocia and is one of the most famous sites in central Turkey. It is a complex comprising more than 30 rock-carved churches and chapels containing some superb frescoes, dating from the 9th to the 11th centuries.
 

GOREME

Goreme, which hide among fairy chimneys, is the heart of Cappadocia. First period settlement within the region reaches to Roman period from Christianity. Ortahane, Durmus Kadir, Yusuf Koc and Bezirhane churches in Goreme, houses and shafts engraved from rocks till to Uzundere, Bagıldere and Zemi Valley carries the mystical side of history today.

Goreme is a wide open air museum, in which there are Fairy Chimneys and lots of churches. Very interesting churches, which are within one of the most important centers of Christianity, Goreme, are under protection.

Goreme is 15 km east of Nevsehir and 5 km west of Urgup


 

IHLARA VALLEY

Ihlara Valley 40 kilometer away from Aksaray. Valley can be reached by turning at the 11th kilometer point of Aksaray - Nevsehir roadway. Canyon constituted by breaks and collapses come out with getting cold of lavas that contains dense basalt and andesite substances and run over from Hasandag mountain. On that split area an Melendiz brook find way to flow and give today's shape to canyon, that brook was named in early ages 'Potamus Kapadukus" which means river of Cappadocia. Valley lies 14 kilometer long. starts from Ihlara, come to an end at Selime.

Valley's height reach to 100 - 150 meter at some places. Across the valley there are innumerable shelters, tombs and churches that all engraved in to rocks present. Some of the shelters and church's are related each other with tunnels that similar to underground cities

Source: Ministry of tourism and Culture