2 Days Cappadocia Tour From Ankara

Briefing

• Devrent Valley (Pink Valley): Unlike other Cappadocia stops, Devrent Valley has no man-made buildings, just raw nature carved into camel and dolphin silhouettes.

• Pasabag Open Air Museum: Early Christian monks chose Pasabag for its isolation, carving chapels and hermit cells high into the fairy chimneys to escape the outside world.

• Avanos Pottery Workshop: Avanos has been a pottery town for over four thousand years, its craft powered by the rich red clay carried downstream by the Kizilirmak River.

• Goreme Panoramic View: Morning light hits Goreme valley from the east, and arriving at the Panoramic View before ten gives you the best combination of color and shadow.

• Zelve Open Air Museum: Walking through Zelve Open Air Museum, you move through actual streets, kitchens, and bedrooms where Cappadocian families lived well into the twentieth century.

• Uchisar Castle (exterior view): Visible from nearly every part of Cappadocia, Uchisar Castle is the region's most recognizable natural landmark and a defining Red Tour photo stop.

Briefing

• Red Valley: Centuries of volcanic ash and wind carved Red Valley's towering orange pillars into shapes that early Christian settlers once used as natural landmarks.

• Rose Valley (Gulludere Valley): Rose Valley contains several rock-cut Byzantine churches with faded frescoes still visible on interior walls, painted by early Christian communities centuries ago.

• Cavusin Village: Cavusin was one of Cappadocia's first permanently inhabited settlements, with Greek-speaking communities carving homes into its cliffs more than a thousand years ago.

• Pigeon Valley: Pigeon Valley earned its name from the thousands of carved pigeon houses that local farmers cut into cliff walls to collect droppings for fertilizer.

• Underground City: Descending into Cappadocia's underground city, carved by early Christians as a refuge from invaders, feels like entering a secret world hidden beneath the surface.