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Day 3: Yozgat, Avanos, Zelve, Cappadocia
Our guide and driver will take you to Cappadocia today after breakfast at your hotel. You will drive around 3 hours and reach Cappadocia by lunch which will be served in Avanos town. Then, you will visit Zelve Open Air Museum which is an impressive village composed of troglodyte houses, cave churches and a mosque giving us broad information about the lifestyles of the Christian and Muslim communities of Cappadocia. After a coffee break underneath the trees in Zelve, we will drive to Devrent (imagination) valley to walk over the lunar landscape of Cappadocia. We
will continue to Urgup town then to taste the interesting local wines of the region and check in to our hotel. Overnight in Cappadocia. [B/L]
Day 4: Cappadocia
Our guide and driver will meet you at your hotel after your second breakfast and you will start exploring the rest of Cappadocia. You will first walk around
the beautiful fairy chimneys of Monks Valley which looks like a forest of gigantic chimneys. You will continue to the Open-Air Museum of Goreme then to see the rock carved churches of the Christian monks once used to live in the area. The frescoes painted on the walls of the churches are dating back from the 10th and the 11th
Century and the whole museum is registered by UNESCO. You will have a local lunch in Goreme village and continue to a nice viewpoint to taste the Turkish coffee. We will continue to the underground city of Kaymakli then to explore the caves built by the people to protect their goods, families and their animals from the enemies. We will also visit the old Greek village of Mustafapasa which was called Sinasos by the Greeks lived there until
1923. The houses built by those people are still outstanding among the stone houses of central Anatolia and the doors are really making you feel like walking in a Greek Village. You will be dropped to your hotel afterwards for an Overnight in Cappadocia. [B/L]
Day 5: Cappadocia, Istanbul, USA
Breakfast at your hotel, At the appointed time our driver will take you to one of the Cappadocia airports for a connecting flight to Istanbul where you'll board you flight back home. [B]
In the Footsteps of the Hittites
5 days
Ankara, Hattusa, Yazilikaya, Alacahoyuk, Yozgat, Avanos, Zelve, Cappadocia
Your Tour includes:
F Arrival and departure transfers
F 4 nights' accommodation
F Breakfast daily
F Local fix menu or A la Carte lunches where available
F Professional English-speaking Tour Guide throughout the tour
F Entrance fees to the stated museums
F A/C minivan with professional driver
F Travel Insurance within Turkey
F Free bottled water in the vehicles for transfers and tours
F Parking fees and fuel of the vehicles
F Tips to the hotels, restaurants and portage staff at the hotels
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