Ankara Tours

Pick up from Accommodation @ 10.00 a.m. or 2.00 p.m, Visits to the Hittite Museum, Citadel of Ankara, Mouseleum of Atatürk and return back to Accommodation

DAY 1 ANKARA / CAPPADOCIA
Morning departure from Ankara. Lunch on the way. The first site will be the 13th century "Agzikarahan" Caravanseria built by Seljuk Turks, then continue to Kaymakli Underground City & Naturel Citadel of Uchisar. Dinner and overnight in Cappadocia (L,D).


DAY 2 CAPPADOCIA/ANKARA
After breakfast first visit will be to the "Goreme Valley" the land of earthen pyramids, stone dwellings, rock chapels and monasteries painted with colorful frescoes. The last site of the tour is PasabagValley. Lunch in area, return to Ankara late in the afternoon (B,L).

DAY 1 ANKARA/CAPPADOCIA

Arrive to Ankara and visit to the Anatolian Civilizationa Museum, where the prehistoric and unic Hittite collections are exhibited, and the Mausoleum of Atatürk, founder of Turkish Republic. Lunch and drive to the spectacular region of Cappadocia. On the way you can enjoy the view of the Salt Lake. Dinner and overnight.

DAY 2 CAPPADOCIA
Breakfast and departure for full day tour to the extraordinary and fascinating Cappadocia; starting the visit with the Fortress of Uçhisar that the water and the wind gave spectacular view to the volcanic rocks and visit Göreme Valley, which was inhabited by the Turks after Christianity period. Next to Zelve there is Paşabağ vineyard where you can see the formation called 'Fairy Chimneys'. This Valley is also called as Monks Valley.

DAY 3 CAPPADOCIA / ADANA Breakfast and visit to underground city of Kaymaklı or Derinkuyu; excavated for the Christian communuties, with a depth of 12 stories under the ground. Drive to Tarsus, the birth place of Sainth Paul. In the prechristianity period, Tarsus was known as the place where Cleopatra tempted Marc Antonius after his victory in Philip when he ordered to get the Egiptian queen Tolemita to punish her because of her help to Caslo when the engineers of the antic Tarsus opened a passage way in between the Nord Mountains till the cilician doors, they created one of the most historical mountained routes of all the times. Till then the armies and the merchants used this passage way. Persians with their 100.000 people and later on Alexander the Great passed through here. Alexander the Great was almost loosing his life while he was swimming in the freezing waters of the Cyndus River. Arrive to Tarsus and visit to the well of Saint Paul and the Cleopatra Gate. Lunch in Tarsus and drive to Adana.