Cappadocia Tours & Turkey Tours
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Cappadocia Boutique Cave Hotels
Istanbul, Ephesus, Antalya, Nemrut
The Turkish Culture Tour Specialists
Walking, Trekking, Ballooning, Rafting, Jeep Safari, Bird Watching, Skiing Tours
Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia are on UNESCO's World Heritage List
CAPPADOCIA Activity Tours
Jeep Safari in Cappadocia
Introduction
These 4x4 off-road jeep tours are led by a specialist guide with knowledge of the local
dirt-track roads that are not on any maps. You will discover the behind-the-scenes secrets of
Cappadocia's less-known villages, ancient trade routes, as well as mountain, stream and forest roads.
Occasionally the rocky paths are very narrow and skilled driving may be required on some routes.
There will also be short walks, special photograph stops, and the opportunity to see major local sights.
On every tour, the jeep will pick you up from and return you to your hotel.
Lunch can be in a local village, or we can do our own bar-bq, Cappadocia style of course!
Scenery and Culture
The unique scenery includes Cappadocia’s famous rock formations which are different in every valley,
small vineyards belonging to locals and other vegetable and fruit gardens in the countryside. Because the
local people are still active in maintaining their countryside gardens, you may see a horse plowing the
soil, picking grapes or apricots, beating walnut trees, or even using a scythe to cut down weeds.
After the harvest, you will see locals traveling from their gardens with heavily laden donkeys,
mules or horse carts. Some people have even built special bee hives in the rocks.
Flora and Fauna
Nature is alive in Cappadocia and you will come across tortoises and gofers, and maybe even spot rabbits
and foxes. Birds are plentiful and the Long Legged Buzzard is the most common large bird, followed by the
Egyptian Vulture. Colorful varieties include Bee Eaters and Golden Orioles. In summer, the early morning
is best for butterflies, and there are many varieties of insects and lizards. Wild plants grow everywhere
including mountain thyme and the yellow-flowered woad that has been used for millennia to produce blue dye.
You will also notice the fauna can be different in each valley as well as change according to height.
Route 1
Starting from Urgup, we go to Ortahisar village via Uzengi stream with its natural health spring,
then on to Uchisar village via local dirt roads. There will be photo opportunities at the rockscapes
and panoramic viewpionts around this traditional rock village. After lunch, drive off-the-road via
Pigeon Valley to Goreme, and finally via Love Valley and an undiscovered valley used by local shepherds,
on to Avanos where traditional pottery has been made in the same way for millenia.
Route 2
Starting from Urgup travel off-road via local vineyard tracks, we go to the Byzantine Hospital
Monastery. We’ll take a look around the traditional village of Ortahisar with its Culture Museum before
wending our way from Red Valley to Goreme. Driving down through the narrow
tracks takes concentration, nerve, and a little skill. Before the tour finishes, we will take the opportunity to
visit the Byzantine cave churches in Goreme Open Air Museum.
Route 3
This tour starts in Goreme, where we meet the dirt tracks to Uchisar village, then via the
old Silk Road once used by camel trains we go to Kavak village, and from there
to Bahceli and Ayvali villages.
These are places rarely visited by travelers, and we will have lunch in one of them. After lunch we will
visit Gomeda, a hidden and largely unknown Byzantine monastic valley, before joining the southern
section of Uzengi stream with its beautifully decorated pigeon houses and ending
the day in Ortahisar.
Route 4
This is a special tour for those who love waterfalls because we go to Kapuzbasi (cap-ooz-basher)
waterfalls near the village of Yahyali, 70km south of Kayseri. The water originates as springs from the
slopes of Ensenin Tepe hill near Kapuzbasi village and creates a series of waterfalls
with heights between 30 and 50
meters falling into the Zamanti River. This awesome natural phenomenon is one of the most important in the world in relation to flow rates and heights. We can have lunch near the waterfalls
before returning to Cappadocia via the Byzantine monastery valley of Soganli, Sobessos archaeological
site where they have uncovered substantial buildings with mosaics from the middle-Byzantine period,
Tashkinpasa and Cemil villages for traditional local culture, and Keshlik Monastery from the Middle Ages
with its secret tunnel where the monks conversations could be overheard.
To book these tours and for custom-made tours Contact Adnan
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Adnan is an active member of KARED (Kapadokya Tourist Guiding Association),
TUREB (Federation of Turkish Tourist Guide Associations), and WFTGA (World
Federation of Tourist Guide Associations).
Adnan's guiding services are brought to you by Honeycomb Tours, Urgup, a TURSAB member
(Association of Turkish Travel Agencies, License Number 5361).
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