Cappadocia Green Tour - Shared Small Group

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1. Today we will start the tour by visiting the biggest underground city in Cappadocia. There are a lot of underground cities in Cappadocia which connects one to each other, today we will visit the biggest one Derinkuyu Underground City. The city contained food stores, kitchens, stalls, churches, wine and oil presses, ventilation shafts, wells, and a religious school. The Derinkuyu underground city has at least eight levels constructed to a depth of 85 metres (279 ft) and could have sheltered thousands of people.

   45 minAdmission included

2. The longest canyon of Turkey. As well as spectacular scenery there are dozens of Byzantine churches, chapels, monasteries and hermit caves dating from the 11th to 13th centuries, as this area was the settlement for early Christians. Our guide will take you to one of these to explain the beautiful religious frescoes visible on the interior walls.

   2 hAdmission included

3. 4 km of hiking through the banks of the Melendiz River

   Passes by

4. Lunch in Belisirma Village

   30 min

5. Selime Monastery, which is the biggest religious building in the region, with a cathedral-size church dating back to the 8th and 9th centuries.

   45 minAdmission included

6. The final stop on this tour is Pigeon Valley, so named because it has hundreds of old pigeon houses cut into the rock face. Pigeons were bred in the region for centuries so that farmers could use their droppings for fertilizer in their fields

   45 minAdmission included

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

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How it compares in Goreme

• Its from-price is 12% below the median of the 555 day trips we list in Goreme.
• Its length is typical for the group.
• By number of reviews it ranks 319 of 555.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Goreme

Göreme sits in the heart of Cappadocia, a surreal landscape of fairy chimneys, cave churches and dawn skies filled with hot-air balloons.

Göreme's houses and hotels are carved into soft volcanic rock, and the town is ringed by valleys of cone-shaped fairy chimneys shaped by erosion. The Göreme Open-Air Museum gathers rock-cut monasteries and churches whose frescoes, painted by Byzantine monks, still glow with colour, especially in the Dark Church.

Top-ranked sights in Goreme: Pigeon Valley (Güvercinlik Vadisi), Devrent Valley (Devrent Vadisi), Monks Valley (Pasabag Vadisi).

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