Cappadocia Yeşil Turu: Kaymaklı Underground City, Ihlara Valley ve Selime

While the Red Tour shows the fairy chimneys and open-air museums, the Green Tour takes you deeper: underground, into a canyon and into the largest rock-carved monastery of the region. The day starts at Göreme Panorama and Pigeon Valley, with hundreds of pigeon houses carved into the cliffs, followed by an onyx and sultanite stone workshop. Then you descend into Kaymaklı Underground City, a multi-level settlement with tunnels, living quarters, churches and storage rooms that sheltered thousands of people. After a set-menu lunch you walk about 3.5 to 4 km along the Melendiz River in Ihlara Valley, between cliffs over 100 metres high and hidden rock-cut churches with Byzantine frescoes. At the end of the valley you visit Selime Monastery, with cathedral-scale halls carved into the rock. On the way back you taste Turkish delight, baklava, pumpkin seeds and Turkish coffee. Small group with a licensed English-speaking guide. Price per person.