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If you do not want to travel with other people while you are in Cappadocia, our private tour option will be a very suitable way to have one-on-one tour with our professional guide and driver. Our private tours cater for couples, families or small groups. Below is a good example to see Cappadocia in 3 days.
Your private tour begins at 9:30. Our professional guide and driver will pick up you at your hotel. Esentepe is the first stop, a magnificent panoramic viewpoint that overlooks Goreme. Your guide will provide information about the history and unique rock formations of Cappadocia. We will start our hike to the Rose Valley's beginning. This is a one-hour hike through fairy chimneys and orchards. Next, we will visit the Goreme Open Air Museum which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Your guide will explain what the meanings are of the cave churches decorated with scenes from the Old and New Testaments. Since the beginning of Christianity, this site has been used for monastic purposes.
We will stop at a Goreme restaurant for lunch. We will stop at several photo stops on the way, including Urgup's fairy chimneys, Devrent's animal shaped rock formations and Monk's Valley. This valley is famous for its mushroom-shaped fairy chimneys. Also, St. Simeon's rock-carved monk cell. Day one ends in Avanos. This picturesque town is located on the banks of a river which supplies clay for the 4000-year-old Avanos tradition. Our day will end with a demonstration of a local potter's kick-wheel and the chance to try this ancient tradition. We will drop you back around 5pm.
Your Private Cappadocia Tour's second day begins at 9:30. The Kaymakli Underground City is our first stop. This multi-level underground city, which was built by the Hittites 3500 years ago and used as a refuge from the raiding enemies of early Christians in the 6th and seventh centuries. Kaymakli, which has 7 levels and includes stables, temples, and wineries is one of the largest underground cities in Cappadocia. We will continue south towards the beautiful Ihlara Valley after we leave Kaymakli. For approximately 1 hour, we walk along the Melendiz River as it winds through the Ihlara Gorge. We stop for lunch at a restaurant near the river in Belisirma. We continue on to the Selime monastery, which is the largest rock-cut monastery of Cappadocia, with its large cave cathedral, and stunning views. We stop at the breathtaking vista point that overlooks Pigeon Valley on our return to Goreme. We will be back at the hotel around 6.00pm.
We will leave your hotel at 9:30 and drive to Mustafapasa. This beautiful city is famous for its architecture. Mustafapasa used to be the largest Greek town in Cappadocia before the 1924 exchange of population between Greece and Turkey. Your guide will provide information about the largest population exchange in the world that caused nearly 2 million people to move. We will be seeing churches and Greek mansions in Mustafapasa as well as the Medrese Seminary, an Islamic high-school. Next stop is Keslik Monastery with one of the most rare iconoclastic examples Cappadocian friscoes. These wall paintings are exceptional and we will discuss the iconoclastic period (726-843AD), when such wall paintings were prohibited by the Byzantine Emperors.
Then we'll drive to Sahinefendi to visit the Sobesos Excavation Site. In the last 10 years, archeologists have begun excavating this area. They continue to find important artifacts. This archeological site contains Roman baths, tombs and basilicas. We continue on to Soganli Valley from Sahinefendi. Soganli, once the third largest monastery center in the region, boasted many cave churches and a stunning hiking valley. We will have lunch in a local restaurant before we start our hike. Also, we'll see the Soganli dolls that the village women made. We will return to our hotel after our Soganli Valley hike. If you're interested in Turkish carpets, you can visit a local carpet workshop and see the traditional carpet-making process. Cappadocia is still the largest area for carpet weaving in Turkey.
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Pick-up from your hotel in Goreme
9.30AM
Approximately 4.00PM - 6.00PM