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Göreme: Small Group Full-Day Cappadocia Red Tour

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61 reviews

Activity provider:enkatravel.com
Day trip

Göreme: Small Group Full-Day Cappadocia Red Tour

Activity provider:enkatravel.com
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This Cappadocia Red Tour will depart from your hotel. Along with a professional tour guide and driver, you will visit historic sites in Cappadocia such as Devrent Valley, Pasabagi Valley, Avanos, Göreme Open Air Museum, Esentepe and more.

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Duration 1 day
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Live tour guide
English, Spanish
Small group
Limited to 15 participants

Experience

Highlights
  • Visit surreal landscapes and watch potters at work using kick wheels
  • See the world’s most important Byzantine cave churches at Göreme Open Air Museum
  • Have a spectacular view over Göreme complete with fairy chimneys, rock formations and cave houses
Full description
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel or in the town before starting your full-day Cappadocia small-group city tour. You will be picked up from your hotel at 10 AM. Start the day visiting Devrent Valley, also known as the “Imagination Valley,” a most surreal-looking landscape. Your next stop will be Pashabagi also known as the Monks Valley because Christian hermits chose to locate hermit cells and churches in these three-headed pinnacles symbolic of the Holy Trinity. It will be possible to see all the stages in the formation of fairy chimneys at this spot.  Then proceed to Avanos (Venessa), the pottery center of Cappadocia. This village is set on the banks of the Kizilirmak/ Red River. The river gets its name from the red clay it deposits. You can watch the potters at work using kick wheels, the technique which has remained unchanged for generations. You will have lunch in a local restaurant before continuing to Göreme Open Air Museum. The world’s most important Byzantine cave churches are found in these once remote valleys where monks and nuns pursued monastic life from the 3rd century on. Here, you will be able to see the best-preserved Byzantine cave wall paintings and frescos from the Iconoclastic period through to the end of Seljuk rule. Icons with scenes from the Old Testament and the New Testament above portraits of church fathers and saints depict the structure of the Byzantine universe. See the panoramic viewpoint of Esentepe. With a spectacular view over Göreme, see the complete view of Göreme Valley and Göreme village complete with fairy chimneys, rock formations, and cave houses. End your day at Uchisar Castle on a tall rock, the highest point in the Göreme region. After the tour, you will return to your hotel.
Includes
  • Visit the Göreme Open Air Museum and try making your own pottery in Avanos
  • Discover this spectacular UNESCO listed region of rock formations and cave villages
  • Lunch
  • National park fees
  • Professional art historian local guide
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off
  • Small-group tour in a luxury vehicle
  • All taxes, fees and handling charges
  • Drink

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  • Informative, friendly and professional guide

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Overall rating

4.6 /5

based on 61 reviews

Review summary

  • Guide
    4.8/5
  • Transportation
    4.9/5
  • Service
    4.9/5
  • Organization
    4.9/5

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Great tour: - visited beautiful and interesting places; - friendly and knowledgeable guide provided a lot of useful and interesting information; - pick up on time, comfortable vehicle. Tour can be improved by spending less time in pottery and carpet stores.

September 14, 2021

Product ID: 131628