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• Here is biggest and largest underground city in Cappadocia. Kaymaklı Underground City features a maze of tunnels and rooms carved eight levels deep into the earth (only four of them are open). The city is arranged around the ventilation shafts which bring in air. Early inhabitants chose to live some of the time underground as protection against the heat and the marauding tribes who regularly passed through the region looking to attack and plunder. The first level was meant for stables, the second level had a church and some living areas, the third level was kitchens and storage. Current inhabitants of Kaymaklı still use parts of the underground city for storage, stables and cellars.
• You can see unique panoramic view of Pigeon Valley, take photos, see hundreds of pigeon houses and feed the pigeons.
• Than we forward to Uchisar Castle and you can watch a breathtaking Cappadocia view. This fantastic rock formation is highest place of Cappadocia to watch Cappadocia as panoramic.
• Here you will see another unique rock formation in Cappadocia.
• Avanos was center of terracota arts in B.C. 2000 Hittite times. You will have a chance on here to watch and see traditional pottery demonstration art. The clay used in pottery demonstration gets from passing heart of town Kizilirmak which second longest river of Turkey known as Hallys in antique times.
• Pasabagi is the best place to see the three-hatted fairy chimneys. You can understand the formation of Cappadocia from up to down.
• We will proceed to the Goreme Open Air Museum which entered the Unesco World Heritage List in 1985. You can see rock churches, carved chapels built by early Christians, an orthodox monastery sheltered to the escape from Roman attacks. You can see very well preserved frescoes on the walls of churches and chapels. These frescoes are paintings that have remained by resisting the corrosive effects of time. The frescoes are from the 5th century.
• Best sunset point in Cappadocia!