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Meet at Middle Earth Travel office. Transfer to; Çavuşin, visit monastery and St Baptist Church, famous with its unique wall painting Salome’s dance.
Pasabag, famous with its multi headed fairy chimneys, where has been the jail of St. Simeon who raged against the monastery life rules of Cappadocia.
ZelveOpen Air Museum, where villagers lived until 1967. Has three valleys with cave houses and churches, which gives the chance to see the change at monastery life from primitive to modern. Explore caves via tunnels; pass through the Trans valley tunnel of Zelve.
Avanos, the second biggest town of Cappadocia, where the longest river of Turkey passes through,
Kızılırmak (Red River or with its ancient name ‘Halys’). Have lunch in a local family restaurant.
Avanos is famous with pottery art, which is in fact the cultural heritage from Hittites to Cappadocia.
Devrent valley, oppurtunity to walk through the strange rock formations for 30 minutes.
Urgup, the biggest town of Cappadocia. Known with it’s old greek name Prokopy and has been the main town for the Greek population before 1924. Visit local wine factory Turasan, opportunity to taste.
Kızılçukur, visit the church of St Niketas, Grape Church, who has lived at his cave over the church, waiting to be ascented to the sky for 30 years. Grape Church is also famous of being one of the two churches left before the iconoclastic period.
Transfer back to Goreme, end of trip.
