Kusadasi 3 Nights & Cappadocia 3 Nights Group Tour – 6 Nights 7 Days with Domestic Flight

Highlights of the Kusadasi 3 Nights & Cappadocia 3 Nights Group Tour – 6 Nights 7 Days with Domestic Flight

The ancient Aegean and the fairy-tale landscapes of Central Anatolia in one 6-night group tour: Kusadasi on the turquoise coast, gateway to Ephesus, and the volcanic valleys of Cappadocia, connected by a domestic flight that is already included. You stay in hand-picked hotels of your chosen category, are met at every airport and join small group excursions led by a professional English-speaking guide – Roman marble streets, Byzantine cave churches and underground cities without any planning stress.

Ephesus was the capital of Roman Asia and one of the largest cities of the ancient world. Its marble Curetes Street leads past the Temple of Hadrian and the terraced houses of the wealthy to the two-storey façade of the Library of Celsus and the Great Theatre, which seated 25,000 people. Nearby stand the House of the Virgin Mary, a place of pilgrimage for Christians and Muslims alike, and the lonely column of the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

A full-day excursion takes you inland to Pamukkale, the "Cotton Castle", a UNESCO World Heritage Site where calcium-rich thermal springs have built brilliant white travertine terraces. Above them lies Hierapolis, the ancient Greco-Roman spa city with its monumental theatre, colonnaded street and vast necropolis, and Cleopatra's Antique Pool, where you can swim among submerged Roman columns.

In the north of the region you climb to the viewpoint of Uçhisar Castle, the tallest rock citadel of Cappadocia, and step inside the Göreme Open-Air Museum, a UNESCO World Heritage Site whose rock-cut churches such as the Dark Church preserve vivid Byzantine frescoes. The mushroom-shaped fairy chimneys of Paşabağ (Monks Valley), the animal-shaped rocks of Devrent (Imagination Valley) and the pottery town of Avanos on the Red River complete the day.

South Cappadocia reveals another world: Derinkuyu Underground City descends eight levels into the rock and once sheltered thousands of people with their animals, wells and chapels. The Ihlara Valley, a 16-kilometre canyon cut by the Melendiz river, hides more than a hundred rock churches along a shaded riverside trail, and the vast Selime Monastery, carved into the cliff face, is one of the largest religious complexes in the region.

Choose your hotel category for both regions – 3★: Club Hotel Lion and Cappadocia Balloon Cave; 4★: Kuşadası Derici Otel and Monark Hotel Cappadocia; 5★: Elite World Kusadasi and DoubleTree by Hilton Avanos - Cappadocia. All prices are per person in a double room for the whole package and change with the travel season; the domestic flight between Izmir and Cappadocia, all airport transfers, guided excursions, lunches on tour days and entrance fees are included. A sunrise hot-air balloon flight in Cappadocia can be added on request.