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Cappadocia

Excursions > Antalya

CAPPADOCIA - EXCURSIONS

During that trip you will have great opportunity to find out our history, culture, religion and to see wonderful lunar landscape.
Holly Konya is the place where Mevlana, great philosopher taught. Nowadays there is Dervis monastery, which was established in Mevlana’s memory. That point of our trip is reason to learn something new about Islam and history of this lands.
Spectacular volcanic eroded landspace at Cappadocia was home the first Christians of Anatolia.
In the heart of Anatolia, wind and water have created eccentric sceneries, magnificent shapes of cones, pyramids and needles. People shaped these stones into churches, houses and cities, and created a heaven for themselves in the nature. At last Turks named here as Cappadocia, which means "fairy chimneys". We reach to Cappadocia, where there are thousands of fairy chimneys, by passing through Taurus mountains, high parts of Anatolia. In the tour program, we visit underground cities, namely, Uchisar and Taubental, which were hiding places of Christians. Goreme open air museum and onyx fabric on the way back to Antalya, you can visit caravansary on old silk road, and you can travel in the history to the time of Seljuks.


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