"Think of a huge cave without a top, where the stalagmites, some of them as high as ten-story buildings, are exposed to the sun and the deep blue sky. Think of them as blush pink. It is as if suddenly the moon landscape which we are now familiar with in its desolate beautiful skeletal forms, were to become a Garden of Eden, for they are surrounded and permeated with vineyards, with fields of bright vegetables and fruit, with lush river valleys and lines of formal cypress trees growing along their banks, green below the brown and fawn level of the high plains of central Anatolia."

Mary Lee Settle; Turkish Reflections

DAY 1 - USA TO TURKEY

 

DAY 2 - ANKARA

Arrival in Ankara. Our Staff will welcome you at the airport and escort you to your hotel. For the rest of the day, you will be at your leisure. (-/-/D)

DAY 3 - ANKARA - CAPPADOCIA

Tour starts in the morning with the tour of Ankara. The first site is the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations which is located in a restored bazaar. The museum has the most unique and priceless collection dating back to the Prehistoric Era. The Mausoleum of AtatUrk is the next stop. This magnificent structure serves as a tribute to the founder of modern Turkey. Lunch will be taken in Ankara and the drive for Cappadocia will start after lunch. Dinner and overnight is at the hotel in Cappadocia. (B/L/D)

DAY 4 - CAPPADOCIA

Breakfast will be served at the hotel and the full day tour of Cappadocia begins with the natural citadel of UChisar which will enable you to get a panoramic view of the region and continues with the GOreme valley which is the highlight of the day. This valley houses, the GOreme open air museum with its churches hewn out of rock and the colorful frescoes which decorate them. The next stop is Zelve and the caves of this ancient village, continuing with the Avanos and CavuSin villages. Lunch will be served en route at a typical regional restaurant. Dinner and overnight will be at the hotel in Cappadocia. (B/L/D)

DAY 5 - CAPPADOCIA - ANKARA

Breakfast will be served at the hotel and the morning visits will begin with the underground city of Kaymakli or Derinkuyu which are refuges carved out in the early Christian Era as safe-heavens from persecutors. Lunch will be taken on the way to Ankara. After arrival in Ankara you will be transferred to your departure sites. (B/L/-)