Cappadocia - Best known for its unique moon-like landscape, underground cities, cave churches
After breakfast departure from the hotel to Cappadocia.
The Cappadocia region is the place where nature and history come together most beautifully within the world. The Cappadocian Fathers of the fourth century were integral to much of early Christian philosophy. It also produced, among other people, another Patriarch of Constantinople, John of Cappadocia who held office 517–520. For most of the Byzantine era, it remained relatively undisturbed by the conflicts in the area, first with the Sassanid Empire and later against the Islamic expansion led by Arabs. Cappadocia contains several underground cities, largely used by early Christians as hiding places before they became a legitimate religion.
During the historical period, while the geographic events are forming Peribacalari (fairy chimneys), humans had carried the signs of thousand years old civilizations by carving houses and churches within these earth pillars and decorating them with frisks.
The area is a world-famous and popular tourist destination, as it has many areas with unique geological, historic and cultural features.
Visits the Uc Guzeller, which are famed fairy chimneys; Devrent valley, with various types of fairy chimneys; Pasabaglari (Monk’s valley), where you will see many fairy chimneys with multiple stems and caps can be found here. Drive to Avanos, which is known for the pottery, a craft dating back to the Hittite period. Continue to visit to Goreme Open Air Museum, where this religious education was started. You will visit the churches, chapels and monasteries carved into the fairy chimneys from the 10th to the 13th centuries with frescoes painted on the walls. Taking some photos in Uchisar castle, which is the highest point in the region. After visiting Kaymakli Underground City, the place early Christians hid from persecutors Return to the hotel for dinner and overnight.
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