Çatalhöyük Archaeological Excavation Site and Virtual Museum
- 3h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
A trip to Çatalhöyük, where you can see the excavation area containing the first finds of the transition to settled life, the Çatalhöyük Promotion and Welcome Center which is one of the best digital museums in the world and sample houses which were built similar to the houses of Çatalhöyük of 9000 years ago. You will have 2 hours to wander the area. Since we are a incoming travel agency based in Konya, our tour prices are affordable and our services are as befitting a kind host. This is the only routine transportation to Çatalhöyük! The tour is a daily transportation service to the Çatalhöyük. It is avaliable everday except monday. On mondays the welcoming center and excavation area (and also most of the museums and attractions in Konya) is closed to the visits. Please take care of your reservation dates regarding to that situation. You will find all digital guiding services in several languages in the welcoming center. The enterance fee is 5 Euro which may be paid while enterance.
Inclusions
What's included
- Round trip transportation.
What's not
- 5 Euro enterance fee.
- Snacks
Itinerary
Çatalhöyük; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 6400 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC.[2] In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[3] The Çatalhöyük Promotion and Welcome Center built by the Konya Municipality is a great show of virtual museum technology which revives the life of achient times. Çatalhöyük Promotion and Welcome Center was designed with the aim of hosting tourists, providing information and enriching their cultural experiences.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Meeting point
- We may welcome you in our office which is in the center of the city and very close to Mavlana Tomb. If you need transfer service you may additionally purchase it.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 30 travellers
- Operated by
- Dolash Konya Turizm Seyahat Acentası
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Konya
- Its from-price is 89% below the median of the 23 experiences we list in Konya.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 5 of 23.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Konya
Konya, on Turkey's Anatolian plateau, is the city of the poet Rumi and the whirling dervishes, with a turquoise-domed shrine and Seljuk mosques.
Konya lies on the dry Anatolian plateau at about 1,000 metres and was the capital of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi, known as Mevlana, settled here and died in 1273. His tomb, under a fluted turquoise dome, lies within the Mevlana Museum, a place of pilgrimage that also holds the hall of the dervishes. The Mevlevi order's whirling ceremony is still performed in the city, and Rumi's death is commemorated each December.
Top-ranked sights in Konya: Mevlana Museum (Mevlana Muzesi), Konya Panorama Museum, Tuz Golu (Pink Salt Lake).
