Full Day Cappadocia Tour( Red Tour + Underground City )
Overview
Get what you want from a day exploring Cappadocia on a private tour or Group tour that lets you avoid crowded buses and provides a personal guide and the flexibility to adjust your itinerary if you wish. Gain a full picture of the region's highlights with visits to Goreme Open-Air Museum, Pigeon Valley and Avanos; and admire underground cities, fairy chimney formations, caves and more—all with the benefit of private air-conditioned transport and your guide's insightful historical and cultural commentary. Private full-day tour of Cappadocia's highlights from select main towns Flexible itinerary and personal guide for historical and cultural insight Explore Goreme, Kaymakli and Uchisar, and see the ethereal rock formations No travel or parking worries: private door-to-door chauffeured service
What you’ll do
The most magnificent landscape around Göreme has been formed from its solidified lava streams, its ash and tuff stone, all dating from Neocene period. It is criss-crossed by deep valleys formed by heavy erosion. This veritable lunar landscape distinguishes itself by its extensive geological formations. The highly typical morphological structures of Cappadocia are the result of thousands of years of continual erosion, which has shaped the tuff deposits into the strangest pyramids and cones.
Lying in south central Turkey, the moonscaped region of Cappadocia, southeast of Ankara, is most famous for unique geological features called fairy chimneys. The large, cone-like formations were created over time by erosion of the relatively soft volcanic ash around them. Past cultures have dug into them to create dwellings, castles (like Uchisar) and even entire underground cities like Kaymakli and Derinkuyu, used as hiding places by early Christians. Nearby Kayseri is the gateway to the area.
The Goreme Open-Air Museum resembles a vast monastic complex composed of scores of refectory monasteries placed side-by-side, each with its own fantastic church. It is obviously the first sight to be visited by any traveler in Cappadocia, standing as it does in the very center of the region with easy access from all directions.
underground city is built under the hill known as the Citadel and was opened to visitors in 1964. The people of ozkonak (Enegup in Greek) village have constructed their houses around nearly one hundred tunnels of the underground city. The inhabitants of the region still use the most convenient places in the tunnels as cellars, storage areas and stables, which they access through their courtyards. The ozkonak Underground City has low, narrow and sloping passages. While the underground city consists of 8 floors below ground, only 4 of them are open to the public today, in which the spaces are organized around ventilation shafts.
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