Depart from your hotel. Today we visit Goreme Open- Museum . The Goreme Open Museum is housing a complex of monasteries and churches. There are two rock-cut monasteries just beyond the entrance, one of them was for nuns and the other one for monks. We'll explore their different rooms and chapel.
After we will explore Uchisar, which is a cave town and natural rock citadel formed initially by erosion forces. Later, many caves were hewn out by people and were occupied for living inside until the beginning of the last century. We'll have the chance to see some of these caves inside. A forest of cones, with caves inside them, surrounds the big Rock Citadel.
Then we will go to Pashabagi , also known as Monk's Valley, because this is the place where the hermits of Cappadocia lived in the top of the fairy chimneys, carving inside their space to live, following the example of St Simeon, who, in the 5 th century in a place close to Aleppo , decided to live in seclusion. In order to avoid the people who came to ask him for miracles, he decided to live on the top of a column 15 mt high.
Also we will explore other of the most famous valleys in Cappadocia, like Cavushin and Dervent , where we will see how wonderful sculptress is the nature.
We will finish the day paying a visit to Urgup and Avanos, two important villages in Cappadocia . Urgup currently is divided in 2 areas: the old and new city. Old Urgup is located on a hillside of little mountain. There are caves hewn out tufa, and old houses from Seljuks and Ottoman periods, and the biggest winery of Cappadocia is here. All the cellars are underground where the temperature is 13-14 degree and constant all year round. Avanos is the pottery town of Cappadocia. This traditional art was taught to the Hittites, the rulers of the region, in those times by the Assyrians around 19 C BC . Avanos is settled on the banks of the Red River (Kizilirmak), and clay provided by the river has been the root material for the development of this craft. Transfer to your hotel. |
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Departure from your hotel and transfer to Red Valley by vehicle. We hike down into Red valley and visit some of the hermits' chapels viewing the cliff-carved dove-cotes. We cross to Rose Valley via a gentle steep ridge. The rose colour of the earth which also gives the name to the valley is fantastic. Here we have a rest and see the valley from the top than we hike down in Rose valley and walk until Çavusin Village, which is a cave town. We explore the caves and Saint John the Baptist Church here, and keep walking to Pashabagi, the fairy-chimneys valley. We ride on vehicle and drive to Zelve Open-Air Museum. After visit Zelve we go back to hotel..
- Duration of the walk: 4 hours 30 Min.
- Lunch: Lunch Box
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