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