CAPPADOCIA BY BUS

A unique place on Earth with an extremely amazing landscape is located in the territory of modern Turkey. This is a huge open-air museum. Volcanoes once erupted here and a massive layer of lava covered the ground. Over millions of years, winds and rains transformed layers of lava into a landscape with bizarre shapes, and people built underground cities and churches there.

Goreme Open Air Museum - This museum can easily be called the most popular complex in Cappadocia, gathering many churches. Goreme National Park and the cave buildings of Cappadocia are included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Turkey.

Underground cities in Cappadocia are settlements carved into soft rocks or underground. In Cappadocia, tuff is soft and easy to process, so it was convenient to excavate caves in it. It was there that the first Christians hid from their persecutors. In the 19th century, the first underground cities were discovered. Now there are six of them, but it is possible that there are more.

Stone mushrooms - or Peri bacaları (peribajalary) stone pillars of bizarre shapes and outlines, reminiscent of mushrooms. The bottom of these mushrooms consists of tuff, and the top of basalt.

Hot Air Ballooning - One of the traditions of Cappadocia is hot air ballooning.

In the morning, many hot air balloons fly into the sky. The sky comes to life and is filled with dozens of colorful colors. You can see this in the only place in Turkey in Cappadocia.

Dance of the Dervishes - The mystical dance of the whirling dervishes is associated with the emergence of the Mevlevi Sufi order. When spinning, the dervish holds his right hand facing the sky and his left hand facing the earth, this symbolized that the dervish takes divine grace from heaven and passes it through himself. The dervishes felt themselves as if between heaven and earth, neither in the world of the living nor in the world of the dead. Even the traditional clothing of the dancing dervishes carries symbolic meaning. They go on stage in black capes, symbolizing coffin covers, under them white dresses, symbolizing a shroud - the clothing of the deceased, and a tall felt hat - a tombstone. In the final part of the dance, the dervishes fall to their knees, which symbolizes the clarification of consciousness and enlightenment of a person.

PROGRAM

---The first day---

Check out from the hotel 05:00 - 06:00 depends on the hotel

Breakfast stop

Underground city

Dinner

Uchisar Fortress

GOREME observation deck

Valley of the Monks

Rose Valley

City of Avanos

---Second day---

Rock churches

Valley of Lovers

Dinner

Return to the hotel

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Included in the price

entry tickets

2 lunches

breakfast on the first day

breakfast at the hotel second day

hotel accommodation in a double room

Transport

Licensed historian guide in English

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Not included in the price

Dinner at the hotel

Beverages

Tips and personal expenses