Cappadocia Özkonak Underground City and Love Valley Guided Tour

Explore Cappadocia's valleys and Özkonak Underground City on a full-day guided tour with round-trip transfers and air-conditioned transportation.

Getting started

Begin with hotel pickup from your accommodation in Cappadocia, using round-trip transfers from areas such as Göreme, Ürgüp, Uçhisar, Ortahisar, or Avanos. Meet your licensed tour guide as you board the air-conditioned transportation that connects the day's viewpoints and historic sites. After a short briefing, you set off toward the first scenic valley stop.

What to expect

Ürgüp Fairy Chimneys

Your first major stop is at the Ürgüp Fairy Chimneys, one of Cappadocia's most recognizable landscapes of tall, conical rock formations.

Features

• Rock towers and unusual silhouettes surround the viewpoint, giving you a clear look at the region's most iconic geological landmarks while you hear about the legends behind their shapes.
• Time is built in for photos and to walk around the viewpoint, with your licensed tour guide sharing context in the language you selected for your guided tour in English or Spanish.

Love Valley

Next, you continue by road to Love Valley, known for its dramatic rock formations and high viewpoints over Cappadocia.

Features

• From the Love Valley viewpoint, you look out over dramatic rock pillars and formations that define one of Cappadocia's most famous scenic valleys.
• Air-conditioned regional transportation takes you between the valleys, keeping travel comfortable as your guide continues explaining the landscape and its history along the way.

Ortahisar Castle

The route then leads to Ortahisar Castle, a monolithic rock fortress that dominates the local skyline.

Features

• From the Ortahisar Castle viewpoint, you see the rock-cut fortress rising above the town, with wide views across the historic settlement and surrounding valley.
• This stop is part of the scenic valley stops at Ürgüp Fairy Chimneys, Love Valley, and Ortahisar Castle, all accessed using the same air-conditioned transportation included with your tour.

Özkonak Underground City

The final core visit is to Özkonak Underground City, a vast subterranean complex once capable of sheltering up to 60,000 people and discovered by a local farmer in 1972.

Features

• With entry to Özkonak Underground City included, you follow your guide through excavated tunnels and chambers to see how entire communities once lived and sheltered underground.
• Your licensed guide leads a structured walk through the subterranean corridors, providing commentary in the language you chose for your guided tour in English or Spanish as you explore this extensive underground shelter.