CAPPADOCIA DAILY TOUR
Turkish Travel’s Cappadocia daily tour will start with Dervent. Here you’ll examine the preformation of fairy chimneys. Zelve Open Air Museum that one of the best places as a must to see as well as Goreme National Park, Pasabag where the row material for pottery can be found, proceed for Avanos worldwide known its professional pottery makers. Have the chance to try your hand at making a pot at Güral Porcelain factory as well as weaving and knotting. Lunch at Pigeon Valley, then visit Doyurgan Vinery, taste the original wine at origin, proceed for Uçhisar where you can see the flats & cafes inside of the fairy chimneys. Uchisar Castle (climbing is at your leisure), finally we’ll arrive Göreme National Park where you can see the poem of the nature at Göreme Valley. Now its time to visit the Underground City where you can get lost in 8 layer. At night we’ll invite you to one of the best entertainment center for dinner in a very traditional way with many attractions such as Whirling Dervishes Ceremony, folk dance and other regional attractions in Urgup. We guarantee that you’ll never forget this moment in your life.

 

 

NEVSEHIR

The road to Nevsehir and Cappadocia passes through Hacibektas, the town where Haci Bektas Veli settled and established his Bektas Sufi order in the 14th century. The dervishes who followed the sect’s tenets of love and humanism were housed in the monastery which includes a mausoleum and mosque. The complex is now a museum open to the public.

 

Onyx, plentiful in the region, was used by the disciples of this order and has come to be called Hacibektas stone. In town there are many onyx souvenirs for sale. It is worth stopping to wander through the interesting Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum. Nevsehir, a provincial capital, is the gateway to Cappadocia. In the town itself the hilltop Seljuk castle, perched on the highest point in the city, and the Kursunlu Mosque, built for the Grand Vizier Damat Ibrahim Pasha, are among the remaining historical buildings. The mosque forms part of a complex of buildings which includes a medrese, a hospice and a library. An ablution fountain in the courtyard still bears its original inscription. The Nevsehir Museum displays local artifacts. Violent eruptions of the volcanoes Mt. Erciyes (391 6 meters) and Mt. Hasan (3268 meters) three million years ago covered the plateau surrounding Nevsehir with tufa, a soft stone comprised of lava, ash and mud. The wind and rain have eroded this brittle rock and created a spectacular surrealist landscape of rock cones, capped pinnacles and fretted ravines, in colors that range from warm reds and gold to cool greens and grays.

 

GOREME

Goreme, known in Roman times as

 

Cappadocia, is one of those rare regions in the world where the works of man blend unobtrusively into the natural surroundings. Dwellings have been hewn from the rock as far back as 4,000 B.C. During Byzantine times chapels and monasteries were hollowed out of the rock, their ochre toned frescoes reflecting the hues of the surrounding landscape. Even today troglodyte dwellings in rock cones and village houses of volcanic tuff merge harmoniously into the landscape. The Goreme open-air Museum, a monastic complex of rock churches and chapels covered with frescoes, is one of the best known sites in central Turkey. Most of the chapels date from the 10th to the 13th century, the Byzantine and Seljuk periods, and many of them are built on an inscribed cross plan with a central cupola supported by four columns. In the narthexes of several churches are rock cut tombs. Among the most famous of the Goreme churches are the Elmali Kilise, the smallest and newest of the group; the Yilanli Kilise with fascinating frescoes of the damned in serpent coils; the Barbara Kilisesi; and the Carikli Kilise. A short way from the main group, the Tokali Kilise, or Buckle Church, has beautiful frescoes depicting scenes from the New

 

Testament. The town of Goreme itself is set right in the middle of a valley of cones and fairy chimneys. Some of the cafes, restaurants and guest houses are carved into the rock. For shoppers, rugs and kilims are plentiful. Continuing on the road out of Goreme, you enter one of the most beautiful valleys in the area. Rock formations seemingly out of a fantasy rise up before you at every turn and entice you to look longer and wonder at their creation. For those who climb the steps to the top of the Uchisar Fortress the whole region unfolds below. Rugs and kilims, and popular souvenirs can easily be purchased from the shops which line Ughisar’s narrow streets. At Cavusin, on the road leading north out of Goreme, you will find a triple apse church and the monastery of St. John the Baptist. In the town are chapels and churches, and some of the rock houses are still inhabited. From Cavusin to Zelve fairy chimneys line the road. Unfortunately, it is dangerous to visit the churches in the valley because erosion has undermined solid footing.