Cappadocia Red Tour
We organize Cappadocia daily tours as group tours and private tours. Daily group tours are up to 16 people. Small group tours are up to 8 people. In private tours, vehicle and tour guide are provided.
Red Tour covers the northern region of Cappadocia and one of the best way to explore the top attractions of Cappadocia. It comprises several appealing UNESCO World Heritage sites and valleys, castles, caves, museums such as Uchisar Castle, Göreme Open Air Museum, Imagination Valley and the Paşabağı Valley.
We organize Cappadocia daily tours, private tours and group tours. In private tours, the vehicle and guide provide a completely private service for you.
In group tours, it provides service to the group you are included in. Group tours are divided according to the number of people. Small group maximum 8 people, normal group tour maximum 16 people.
Highlights
Intimate group experience max 16-19 people.
Small groups with a maximum of 8 people.
Departure time approximately 9:30 and the tour takes 6 to 7 hours.
Best for people with kids as there are less walking and hiking involved.
Includes
+Transport by air-conditioned minivan.
+Hotel pickup and drop-off.
+Professional English-speaking tour guide.
+National Park and museum entrance fees.
+Lunch (drinks at lunch not included).
Our services and additional information included in our private tour:
Our private tour vehicle, expert driver and certified guide service are included in the price.
Tour start and end times are arranged according to your wishes.
Lunch is not included in our private tours, lunch is taken at the preferred location.
Entrance fees not including.
Itinerary
Devrent (Imagination Valley)
Paşabağları (Monks Valley)
Avanos (plus pottery workshops)
Göreme Open Air Museum
Uçhisar Castle Panaroma
You will be picked-up from your hotel around 9.30 am in the morning.
Red tour starts with Devrent Valley, also known as the ‘Imagination Valley’. The valley is skirted by red-colored rocks in various shapes. Devrent Valley has many fairy chimneys in fantastic shaped rock formations. Cappadocia’s famous fairy chimney that looks like camel and many other fairy chimneys that look resemble animal or human figures are located here. It is up to your creativity to imagine various animals and figures formed by the rocks.
In our next stop Pasabağları also known as ‘Monks' Valley’, you will walk and climb around fairy chimneys of every shape and size. Paşabağları is best known for fairy chimneys which build up mushroom shapes, this is why it is also known as Mushroom Valley. The formations that once used as a seclusion place for the Monks.
Next, we are going to visit the pottery-making town of Avanos. Avanos is situated by the Red River and you’ll see variety of great traditional pottery workshops. People have been making pots from the local red clay since before the beginning of recorded history. We will visit a traditional pottery workshop where you will see the master potters at work, you’ll have the opportunity to make your own clay pot if you wish.
Next, we drive to the Göreme Open Air Museum where you’ll experience and enjoy some well preserved, rock-cut churches with frescoes and paintings dating from as early as the 10th century and the best examples of Byzantine art in Cappadocia. Goreme Open Air Museum is a rocky settlement area that has hosted an extreme monastery life between 4th to 13th centuries. Being UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is also one of the most popular places to see in Cappadocia.
The most unrealistic and unique castle around the globe, Uçhisar Castle, will be our last destination. It is a volcanic projection and is surrounded by similar cave-like rock formations. Villagers used it as a shelter in the ancient era because the caves maintain a temperature of 15°C throughout the year, making it efficient even today.
You will be dropped off your hotel at the end of the tour.