Cappadocia Tour 1 ..::

Devrent Valey has various types of fairy chimneys. Among these are caps, cones, musroom like forms, pillars and pointed rocks. With the action of smaller, secondary volcanoes and the action of rivers, wind and flood waters, this layer of tuffan has slowly but steadly been eroded to produce the rock formations know as "fairy chimmeys". We will take a walk through this amazing valley.Zelve Open Air Museum has the valley. Balikli, Uzumlu and Geyikli, belong to the Pre Iconoclastic period. The valley was inhabited until 1952. Apart from monasteries and churches, houses a mill a mosque and several dovectes are found in the valley. Pasabaglari (Monks Valley) Many fairy chimneys with multiple stems and caps can be found here, this style being unique to this area. A chapel dedicated to St. Simeon and a hermit's shelter is built into one such fairy chimney with three heads.Avanos is known for pottery, a craft dating back to the Hittite period. The red clay which is worked by local craftsman comes from the residue  in the KIZILIRMAK river. The KIZILIRMAK, which divides Avanos into two, is Anatolia'S longest river.Goreme Open Air Museum is the place where where religious education was started. You will visit the churches chapels and monasteries carved into the fairy chimmeys from the 10th to the 13th centuries with frescoes painted on the walls. In the 4the century three important men created a unity here, they are the Great St. Basil, Bishop of Kayseri, his brother St. Gregory of Nyssa and St. George of Nazianus.Pigeon Valley here you will see where the Pigeons lived and hear of how they were used to help the people. For example, to send messages and to fertilize the grapes. Also you will see wonderful panoromic views.Uchisar Castle is the highest point in the region. The castle and its surrounds used to be the most populated area of thþs settlement, which resembles Ortahisar in style. The top of the citadel provides magnificent panoromatic views of the surounding area. online reservation