FLY & DRIVE

Do you want more freedom while you are traveling? Or perhaps, you do not want to stick to an organized trip. We can book return flight tickets, rooms and rental car for you. You can take your rental car at your arrival from the airport and leave the car at the airport. You can drive and explore Cappadocia on your own. We can give some recommendations about the places to be viseted, restaurantst. If you prefer, one of our experienced guides can accompany you.

Recommended Itinerary

Day 1: Arrive at Kayseri Airport, meet our driver at the exit gate and transfer to Cappadocia. Overnight at a high cave hotel in Cappadocia.

Day 2: Take the rental car in the morning then meet the lunar landscape of Cappadocia: rock formations beyond belief in Devrent valley; walk in Zelve Open Air Museum: a journey in the past with its troglodyte houses; visit Pasabag “fairy chimneys valley” where the voice of wind mixes with the “songs of fairies”. Avanos could be the best place for lunch. In the afternoon, visit the famous Goreme Open Air Museum and see the best examples of Byzantine art in rock-cut churches with frescoes and paintings (10th to 13th century). End your day with a climb up the Uchisar Rock-Castle to have a panoramic view of the valleys of Cappadocia. Overnight at a high quality cave hotel in Cappadocia.

Day 3: In the morning, visit Mustafapasa (Sinassos), an ancient Greek town with its spectacular old Greek houses, very fine examples of late Greek settlements and architecture. Keslik Monastery, near Cemil village, hides its frescoes behind a very thin smoke layer, which you can only see by torchlight. Then drive to Soganli, an Open Air Museum in a wild natural setting near a typical Cappadocian village with its different style rock-cut churches with paintings. Villages in the valleys, surrounded by the “table top” mountains, are spectacular. On the way back to your hotel, visit the Medrese (Theological School) from Seljuk Turks in Taskinpasa, the witness of an early and rich Turkish settlement in the town. This Medrese is today used as a library. Overnight at a high quality cave hotel in Cappadocia.

Day 4: In the morning, descend into the centre of the earth in the Underground city of Kaymakli, the widest of the 40 others in Cappadocia; visit Ihlara Canyon and Belisirma village, the ancient Peristrema: “Valley of the Sky” along the Melendiz River. Rock-cut churches, spread across a wild plantation, surprise you with their successfully painted representations from the Bible. Have lunch in Belisirma at a local restaurant by the river. On the way back, first stop at Selime village and then visit the Caravanserai of Agzikarahan, a very fine example of the Turkish Seljuk art, built in early 13th century on the legendary Silk Road for the accommodation of the traders and their camels. Drive to Kayseri Airport, leave the rental car and take the late evening flight back to Istanbul.