We will take you to another planet which is full of magical lunar landscape with all surprises. No one
will be expecting to see the best frescoes of the world in the middle of nowhere in a 1500 years old
cave church. This tour will be full of art, history , religion and beyond the expactation.
Posted By : lynnf765
Excellent value for money with kind and knowledgeable guide. We saw so much and lunch included was also great. Covered a huge amount of area.
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Posted On : 2024-02-10 13:39:17 
Posted By : Hector_M
Easily one of the best tours I have been on. Mustafa our guide was knowledgeable and very funny. The trip lasted 6 hours plus but I wish it was still going.
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Posted On : 2023-10-06 12:49:47 
Posted By : YaoPeng_L
Ali was great! His personal experience and insights about the landscape and history made this trip awesome!
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Posted On : 2023-10-01 00:54:56
Posted By : Adeline_C
Guide Mustafa was very knowledgeable with a great sense of humour. We wished however he would actually walk and guide us on the tour sites, rather than giving a compact historical debrief (which was rather good eventhough compact) and asked us to walk on our own while he hung back in the shade to wait for us. Ask him anything - he had a good detailed answer on the history.
Day started out well with him giving alot of detailed explanation on the history of cappadocia, how it was geologically formed, the economy of the people - very fascinating.
Göreme open air museum which I was really looking forward to and the reason I book a tour guide - to give me info about each site - turned out to be a let down. Our guide stood with us at the entrance, giving alot of fascinating information about the entire places history for a good 20 mins or so while standing on one spot near the entrance. He then told us he was not allowed to go into each of the chapels scattered around the huge open air museum space as it is a rule to limit number of people in each site due to preservation of the space. While walking around the site however, our group realised the other tours had guides walking with them up to each chapel entrance - their guides just didn't enter the chapels with them. We wished our guide did that - there was so much more history that he could have told us, site by site instead of compressing it into a 20 min speech.
Other spots we were brought to didn't feel like much
-a jewellery making shop, we weren't there to observe craft being made, but to be sold stuff. Very beautiful pieces no doubt, but we were left to the mercy of very intense sales people, that makes you cautious to mention anything looks nice - salesperson takes that as a hint to try to sell u.
In avanos - we went to a pottery making gallery. A master craftsman demonstrated how he makes a complex decanter - wonderful. But again after that we were ushered through a very very expensive pottery gallery to purchase items. I respect art has high value, and their pottery was very very beautiful, but the tour was starting to feel very much like shop stops.
Finally stopped at a Valley which I assumed was devrent Valley - guide gave a very brief explanation of the place and told us to walk on ahead and take photos while he hung back (again) at the car side shaded from the sun. The formations looked beautiful, we weren't sure what to look out for - if the guide actually walked with us and pointed out things maybe it would be more interesting?
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Posted On : 2023-09-24 21:19:52
Posted By : Breanna_W
Really informative tour with our guide Yusuf. Yusuf was very knowledgeable, engaging and funny (despite our group being pretty lacklustre). The sites were all interesting and our guide gave lots of info and time to explore and take photos
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Posted On : 2023-09-23 00:47:12
Posted By : Jesse_F
Dozens and dozens of opportunities to take some truly memorable photos of some awesome things. The underground city was my personal favorite. Our guide Yusuf was excellent and made the trip memorable. Wear sunscreen and drink water.
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Posted On : 2023-07-24 12:06:43
Posted By : Liudmila_K
Our guide, Ali, was awesome. He was fun and knowledgeable, and he made this experience great. The tour itself was not bad and was worth the $55 I paid for it. As far as the content of the tour are concerned, I'd give it a 3/5. The Goreme museum was great as well as the short hike in the valley. The transportation and food were good as well, no complaints here. However, it feels like we spent too much time on what they call 'master classes' which in reality are a jewelry shop and a pottery shop. The store associates give a bit of info on their respective crafts and then actively try to sell you their stuff. The pottery workshop was actually fun, but do not buy anything there or at least bargain to get the price to at least 50-70% down. Most of the stuff they sell can be bought at any gas station within 50-100 miles of Cappadocia for much cheaper.
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Posted On : 2023-07-06 19:06:11
Posted By : JuarezSilva2600
Excellent guide Mustafa, and the driver Milit (don’t know if the name is correct).
We were very confortable!
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Posted On : 2023-06-12 15:13:21
Posted By : Madeline_D
This was a great tour! Good amount of time spent at all the sites. Did not feel rushed or like we were there for too long. Our guide Hakan was so great and informative. He answered any questions anyone had.
The lunch was good and had options.
The pottery shop was very cool and had a lot of nice things, but expensive and they definitely try to sell you hard on buying something.
Overall, definitely worth it and a great day.
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Posted On : 2023-02-13 01:57:35
Posted By : Z8819AYstevenb
Our guide was great, very personable and knowledgeable. Ephesus and the House of the Virgin Mary were the best part of this tour, although pretty much all of it was good.
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Posted On : 2022-12-31 11:52:53
