Off the Beaten Track Cappadocia

Cappadocia is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Turkey as there are many sites with unique geological, historic, and cultural features. Almost 1.5 million people visit our fairy land every year. We are very proud to share our culture and tradition with our guests driving to the most significant places which are considered as must see before death by travel editors.

Our rides are designed to cover the most famous sights of Cappadocia as listed below, making sure our guests get a taste of evocative lunar landscape with its bizarre rock formations, enigmatic fairy chimneys, extensive cave dwellings and its rich culture.

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Mustafapasa

Former name of Mustafapasa was Sinassos during the Ottoman era. It had a mixed population. Greeks and Karamanlides constituted the majority of the population and muslim Turks constituted the rest. In 1924 however by the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey agreement, Greeks and Karamanlides left the town for Nea Sinasos a town in the northern part of the island of Euboea in Greece. They were replaced by Bulgarian muslims and Turks from Kastoria, a town in northern Greece.

Admission Fee : NO

Keslik Monastery

Within the territory of Keşlik Monastery there are rock engraved structures such as twochurches, refectory, holy spring, various monk rooms, winery and small chapels. The entranceof church and refectory has been renovated by cut off stone.Arkhangelos Church is one of the most attractive structures of the monastery.

Admission Fee : 15 TRY P.P

Soganli Valley

Admission Fee : 18 TRY P.P

Settlements in this valley took place during the Roman times. The Romans used the stone conies on the slopes of the valley as graveyards and the Byzantine as churches. Church frescos in styles, dates back to the 9th and 13th centuries. There are thousands of carved bird aviaries, caves and shelter in addition to some churches and monasteries along the Soganli valley.

Pigeon Valley

Admission Fee : NO

The valley took its name, as can be easily guessed, from hundreds of pigeons which used to find their homes in hollows made by farmers in the rocks. In those days the birds were used as message carriers and their droppings as fertilizers. However, there are hardly any pigeons in the valley today.

Uchisar Castle is the peak where Cappadocia mingles with the clouds; it is the highest fairy chimney and can be seen from any where in the region. During the brutal Roman reign the citadel was used as a watch tower by the early christians.

Uchisar Castle View Point

Admission Fee : NO