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CAPPADOCIA DAILY
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Turkish
Travel's Cappadocia daily tour will start with Dervent.
Here you’ll examine the preformation of fairy chimneys.
Zelve Open Air Museum that one of the best places as a
must to see as well as Goreme National Park, Pasabag
where the row material for pottery can be found,
proceed for Avanos worldwide known its professional
pottery makers. Have the chance to try your hand at
making a pot at Güral Porcelain factory as well as
weaving and knotting. Lunch at Pigeon Valley, then
visit Doyurgan Vinery, taste the original wine at
origin, proceed for Uçhisar where you can see the
flats & cafes inside of the fairy chimneys. Uchisar
Castle (climbing is at your leisure), finally we’ll
arrive Göreme National Park where you can see the poem
of the nature at Göreme Valley. Now its time to visit
the Underground City where you can get lost in 8 layer.
At night we’ll invite you to one of the best
entertainment center for dinner in a very traditional
way with many attractions such as Whirling Dervishes
Ceremony, folk dance and other regional attractions in
Urgup.
We guarantee that you’ll never forget this moment in
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NEVSEHIR
The
road to Nevsehir and Cappadocia passes through
Hacibektas, the town where Haci Bektas Veli settled
and established his Bektas Sufi order in the 14th
century. The dervishes who followed the sect's tenets
of love and humanism were housed in the monastery
which includes a mausoleum and mosque. The complex is
now a museum open to the public.
Onyx,
plentiful in the region, was used by the disciples of
this order and has come to be called Hacibektas stone.
In town there are many onyx souvenirs for sale. It is
worth stopping to wander through the interesting
Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum. Nevsehir, a
provincial capital, is the gateway to Cappadocia. In
the town itself the hilltop Seljuk castle, perched on
the highest point in the city, and the Kursunlu Mosque,
built for the Grand Vizier Damat Ibrahim Pasha, are
among the remaining historical buildings. The mosque
forms part of a complex of buildings which includes a
medrese, a hospice and a library. An ablution fountain
in the courtyard still bears its original inscription.
The Nevsehir Museum displays local artifacts. Violent
eruptions of the volcanoes Mt. Erciyes (391 6 meters)
and Mt. Hasan (3268 meters) three million years ago
covered the plateau surrounding Nevsehir with tufa, a
soft stone comprised of lava, ash and mud. The wind
and rain have eroded this brittle rock and created a
spectacular surrealist landscape of rock cones, capped
pinnacles and fretted ravines, in colors that range
from warm reds and gold to cool greens and grays.
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GOREME
Goreme, known in Roman times as
Cappadocia, is one of those rare regions in the world
where the works of man blend unobtrusively into the
natural surroundings. Dwellings have been hewn from
the rock as far back as 4,000 B.C. During Byzantine
times chapels and monasteries were hollowed out of the
rock, their ochre toned frescoes reflecting the hues
of the surrounding landscape. Even today troglodyte
dwellings in rock cones and village houses of volcanic
tuff merge harmoniously into the landscape. The Goreme
open-air Museum, a monastic complex of rock churches
and chapels covered with frescoes, is one of the best
known sites in central Turkey. Most of the chapels
date from the 10th to the 13th century, the Byzantine
and Seljuk periods, and many of them are built on an
inscribed cross plan with a central cupola supported
by four columns. In the narthexes of several churches
are rock cut tombs. Among the most famous of the
Goreme churches are the Elmali Kilise, the smallest
and newest of the group; the Yilanli Kilise with
fascinating frescoes of the damned in serpent coils;
the Barbara Kilisesi; and the Carikli Kilise. A short
way from the main group, the Tokali Kilise, or Buckle
Church, has beautiful frescoes depicting scenes from
the New
Testament. The town of Goreme itself is set right in
the middle of a valley of cones and fairy chimneys.
Some of the cafes, restaurants and guest houses are
carved into the rock. For shoppers, rugs and kilims
are plentiful. Continuing on the road out of Goreme,
you enter one of the most beautiful valleys in the
area. Rock formations seemingly out of a fantasy rise
up before you at every turn and entice you to look
longer and wonder at their creation. For those who
climb the steps to the top of the Uchisar Fortress the
whole region unfolds below. Rugs and kilims, and
popular souvenirs can easily be purchased from the
shops which line Ughisar's narrow streets. At Cavusin,
on the road leading north out of Goreme, you will find
a triple apse church and the monastery of St. John the
Baptist. In the town are chapels and churches, and
some of the rock houses are still inhabited. From
Cavusin to Zelve fairy chimneys line the road.
Unfortunately, it is dangerous to visit the churches
in the valley because erosion has undermined solid
footing.
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