You need to be ready at your hotel for your Cappadocia Package Tour including Hot Air Balloon Ride.
05:00 Pick up from your hotel and drive to airport. (Please note that pick up time can be change according to flight departure time)
07:00 Fly from Istanbul to Kayseri / Nevsehir. (Please note that flight time can be change according to avalibilty)
08:20 Arrive in Kayseri / Nevsehir Airprot.
After check out from airpot, our staff will be waiting for you with name sign, your name written on it. You will be picked up and drive to Cappadocia and you will be dropped off at our meeting point for your first day tour of 2 days Cappadocia tour package
Today our first visit will be Red valley and explore the famous rock- cut churches and hike 5 km through the Gulludere valley. Then visit Cavusin village. Old Cavusin was abandoned several decades ago due to avalanches. The current village of Cavusin is located on the road. Old Cavusin, with its rock-cut dwellings and stone houses, had several hermitages. The two most important churches in Cavusin are the Great Basilica dedicated to St. John the Baptist (located on the cliff above the village) and Cavusin church or the “Great Pigeon House” commemorating a visit of the famous Cappadocian Emperor Nicephorus Phocas.Then we go to local restaurant to have lunch. After lunch drive to the Pigeon Valley. After visiting Pigeon Valley, drive for visiting Kaymakli Underground City, where early christians lived in fear and faith. The an- cient name was Enegup. The houses in the village are constructed around the nearly one hundred tunnels of the underground city, which is one of the most interesting underground settlements in Cappadocia. The underground city was originally carved out as eight floors, however four floors are available to visit. In wartime about 5000 people can refuged in. The tunnels are still used today as storage areas, stables, and cellars. On the way back visit the natural castles at Ortahisar. At the end of the tour, you will be transferred to hotel. Overnight in Cappadocia.
09:30 You will be picked up from your hotel for second day tour of Cappadocia.
You will be takken to meeting point and meet with other tour participants and tour guide then we start the tour. Our first real encounter with Cappadocia almost Martian landscape is in the Dervent valley. we visit Pasabag’s “fairy chimneys”, where the voice of the wind harmonizes with songs of the fairies. From here we pause at Avanos centre of terracotta art which is a popular destination because of its attractive old town with cobbled streets, and views over the river and is its production of earthenware pottery, it is also the most economic activity in the town. The ceramic trade in this district and its countless pottery factories date right back to the Hittites, and the ceramic clay from the red silt of the Kızılırmak has always been used. A visit to ceramic & tile center to see how the ceramics made by hand. After lunch we visit the famous Goreme Open Air Museum to see the best examples of Byzantine art in Cappadocia. People of Goreme, at the heart of the Cappadocia Region, realized that these soft rocks could be easily carved out to form houses, churches, monasteries. These Christian sanctuaries contain many examples of Byzantine art from the post-iconoclastic period. These frescoes are a unique artistic achievement from this period. We complete the tour with a visit to the Uchisar Rock-Castle which has the numerous hollowed-out containers, rock tombs, and a large water cistern all welcome you as silent witnesses to history and human life giving you a panoramic view of the valleys of Cappadocia. At the end of the tour, you will be transfered back to hotel and overnight in Cappadocia.
Today Around 05.00 We will pick you up from your cave hotel/hostel and take you our launch site in the early morning.Once we arrive at the balloon launch site, our staff will greet you with hot drinks and snacks. You may want to bring a light jacket, as it is often fairly cool before the sun rises fully. we prepare the balloons on the ground. You will have an opportunity to watch.The preparations take just 15min. Our balloons begin to take off at around sunrise.They rise approximately 1000 feet to show you sunrise and extraordinary views of Cappadocia.
At the end of the Balloon Ride in Cappadocia, you will be trnasferred back to hotel. Have breakfast and rest at your hotel. Today is your last day of your Cappadocia Package Tour. You will chewck hotel around 11:00 / 12:00 o’clock. You will have free time until your departure time, to last shopping or other activities such as ATV ride, hors riding.
17:00 You will be picked up from your hotel and transfer to Airport for flight to Istanbul.
19:20 Fly from Kayseri / Nevsehir to Istanbul (Please note that flight departure time can be changed according to avalibilty)
20:40 Arrive in Istanbul. Upon your arrival, you will meet with our staff at the airport then be transferred to your hotel. 3 days Cappadocia package tour including Balloon Ride is complated. We would like to see you in our other tours or tours package.