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Cappadocia Hot Air Balloon Ride
Cappadocia Tours
Cappadocia Tours
Cappadocia Hot Air Balloon Ride
Cappadocia Tours

Wonders of Cappadocia : 2 Days Travel from Istanbul - Including Balloon Ride

By Turkey Experiences
5 out of 5
Free cancellation available
Price is $879 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Overview

Charming valleys and fairy chimneys of Cappadocia, white travertine terraces of Pamukkale and Salda crater lake are Turkey’s most photographed natural wonders. Also, explore the ancient Roman ruins of Hierapolis, and enjoy a memorable scenic sunrise flight by Hot Air Balloon (Included) in Cappadocia. This 3-days travel to Cappadocia, Pamukkale, Salda Lake is including 2 nights hotel accommodation, domestic flight tickets from Istanbul to Cappadocia - Pamukkale to Istanbul, Hot Air Balloon Ride, ATV Quad Bike Safari, transfers at the mentioned airports in the itinerary, bus ticket from Cappadocia to Pamukkale, Entrance fees of museums, national parks, ruins mentioned in the itinerary, professional tour guides licensed by the Ministry of Culture & Tourism for duration of the day tours.

Activity location

  • Istanbul
    • Istanbul, Turkiye

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Cappadocia
    • Türkiye

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Silver Package
  • Activity duration is 2 days2d2d
  • English

Accommodation: Dedeli Konak Cave Hotel - Stay at Stone Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED
Money Back Guarantee: If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Domestic Flights: Round Trip flight tickets between Istanbul and Cappadocia are INCLUDED.
Tour Language: The daily tour(s) will be organised with professional licenced English-speaking guides.
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 4:00am
Price details
$878.94 x 1 Adult$878.94
Total
Price is $878.94
Until Fri, Jun 14
Gold Package
  • Activity duration is 2 days2d2d
  • English

Accommodation: 1811 Cave Hotel - Guarantee to Stay at Cave Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED
Money Back Guarantee: If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Tour Language: The daily tour(s) will be organised with professional licenced English-speaking guides.
Domestic Flights: Round Trip flight tickets between Istanbul and Cappadocia are INCLUDED.
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 4:00am
Price details
$965.64 x 1 Adult$965.64
Total
Price is $965.64
Until Fri, Jun 14
Diamond Package
  • Activity duration is 2 days2d2d
  • English

Accommodation: Exedra Hotel - Guarantee to Stay at Cave Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED
Money Back Guarantee: If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
Domestic Flights: Round Trip flight tickets between Istanbul and Cappadocia are INCLUDED.
Tour Language: The daily tour(s) will be organised with professional licenced English-speaking & Spanish-speaking guides.
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 4:00am
Price details
$1,119.54 x 1 Adult$1,119.54
Total
Price is $1,119.54
Until Fri, Jun 14

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedTransfers at the mentioned airports for domestic flights in the itinerary
  • What's includedWhat's includedFlight Tickets : Istanbul to Denizli - Izmir to Istanbul or Izmir to Cappadocia
  • What's includedWhat's includedXX nights hotel accommodation including breakfast
  • What's includedWhat's includedBreakfast
  • What's includedWhat's includedHotel pick-up & drop-off services for each mentioned tours and transfers on itinerary
  • What's includedWhat's includedProfessional tour guide who licenced by Ministry of Culture and Tourism
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedDinner & Drinks
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedEntrance fees of the museums (Your guide will have pre-paid tickets to skip the line.)

Know before you book

  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • The prices of package are valid for accommodation at the double or triple room. If you would like add accommodation on single room(s) to your booking, there could be supplement cost. There are not going to be any extra cost for bookings of single / solo travelers. They will already accommodate at single room(s).
  • The pre-planned hotels are "Hotel Arcadia Blue" and "Radisson Blu Hotel İstanbul Pera" in Istanbul - "1811 Cave Boutique Hotel" and "Zeydem Suites Boutique Hotel" in Cappadocia for your accommodation on this travel. If these hotels are not available for standard/superior rooms on your travel dates, local tour operator can replace it with an equivalent hotel.
  • The check-in time of the hotels is 02.00pm, and you can not start use your room before this time. This is about the check-in & check-out policies of the hotels.
  • Local tour operator will send e-tickets of your domestic flights at six days before your departure date. You will not need the print out copies of the tickets for domestic flights. Your passport and reservation number on the tickets will be enough for check-in to plane.
  • Local tour operator can request your some passport details for the bookings of your flight tickets. If you do not share the details which requested by the local tour operator, your domestic flight tickets can not bookable.
  • You will have 15kg luggage + 8kg hand bag quota per person for each domestic flight. If you will need more luggage capacity, please inform that to local tour operator. There could be some extra fee for luggage quotas more than 15kg. This is exactly about the policies of airline companies.
  • Hot air ballooning is a fully weather-dependent activity and the Civil Aviation Authority determines whether the flight will be held. If your flight is cancelled due to inclement weather conditions, you are entitled to a partial refund. In such a case, your refund will be processed by the day after of that trip. Your refund rate will be the difference between options of "included balloon ride" and "excluded balloon ride" for the cancellations of the hot air balloon ride.
  • The Standard Balloon Ride has an One-hour approximately flight duration with 20 to 28 people capacity basket. The flight duration could be 50-55 minutes or 65-70 minutes. This situation depend the weather conditions before landing, and pilots are decide to that within the safety rules of Civil Aviation Authority. Total activity duration is approximately 3 hours.
  • Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking.
  • The children who 5 years old and under are not allowed to balloon tours.
  • Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults. If you will be 1 adult + 1 child, local tour operator can request & charge the amount of 2 adults.

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Flight from Istanbul to Denizli – Pamukkale, Hierapolis Tour - Overnight at Kusadasi
  • 11 stops
  • Meals: lunch
  • Accommodation: INCLUDED - There are different hotel variations. You can choose your hotel category while booking to this tour package.
Istanbul
  • 1h
The travel services will start with a departure transfer. Your driver will pick you up from your hotel in Istanbul and then transfer to airport for your flight from Istanbul to Denizli.
Denizli Çardak Airport
  • 1h
Upon arrival Denizli Cardak airport, your tour guide and another driver will meet you at the exit gate of the arrival terminal. After you met with your guide, you will start the full-day tour to Pamukkale & Hierapolis Ancient City.
Hierapolis & Pamukkale
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
The highlights of Hierapolis are Necropolis, Roman Baths, Domitian Gate, Latrina, Oil Factory, Frontinus Street, Agora, Byzantium Gate, Triton Fountain, Cathedral, Apollon Temple, Plutonium, Theater and Antique Pool. During visits to these ancient ruins, you can take some photos from the nicest corners of the Pamukkale.
Pamukkale Thermal Pools
  • 1h
After visited the Hierapolis Ancient City, you will have free time for about 60-75 minutes to explore the natural beauties of the Pamukkale, and swim at white travertines - thermal pools (or antique pool - Cleopatra’s pool with extra fee). Then meet again with your guide, start walking in the middle of travertines from up to down without shoes and socks.
Cleopatra Pools
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Situated above the Pamukkale white travertine pools is one particularly spectacular location fed by the same hot springs. Here you can bath in the same waters in which Cleopatra once swam! A professionally run modern spa facility allows you to enjoy these historical healing waters. Unlike the white water of the lower pools the Antique Pool favored by Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, is pure clear warm water. Once it was surmounted by a Roman Temple to Apollo with ornate roof held up with Doric columns. Imagine how Cleopatra must have experienced this when you imagine it in it's glory day.
Kale
  • 1h
You will stop at a local restaurant for your lunch. Today’s lunch is included during guided tour.
Karahayıt
  • 30m
After the lunch, you will have experience traditional handcraft workshop for get lecture about the special stones/metals of Pamukkale.
Pamukkale Tandem Paragliding
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Pamukkale Paragliding Adventure (Optional Attraction – You can add this attraction to your experiences with extra cost.) : See Pamukkale’s glistening white travertine and ancient Hierapolis, including the enormous theater, from the air on this short-but-sweet paragliding experience with a seasoned pilot. You will race off the edge of a slope about 1,300 feet (400 meters) up, then glide on the breezes over the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Kusadasi
  • 2h 30m
After your Pamukkale & Hierapolis Tour, you will be transferred to your hotel in Kusadasi.
Kusadasi Castle
This small castle is picturesque Byzantine fortress stands on the causeway-connected Guvercin Adasi (Pigeon Island) and has recently been renovated. *** There is no any visit to this place on tour. You can visit there by your own after we dropped you to your hotel in Kusadasi.
Okuz Mehmet Pasa KervansarayI
This caravanserai was built by the Grand Vizier Okuz Mehmed Pasha to support maritime trade in the region. This historical building is opposite to Kusadasi cruise port. *** There is no any visit to this place on tour. You can visit there by your own after we dropped you to your hotel in Kusadasi.
Day 2: Birgi Village, Odemis City, Tire City Tour - Overnight at Kusadasi
  • 7 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: INCLUDED - There are different hotel variations. You can choose your hotel category while booking to this tour package.
Kusadasi
  • 1h 15m
After having breakfastat at your hotel, the tour guide will pick you up on 08.30am (Approx) and depart for your full-day tour to Birgi Village, Odemis City, Tire City. Today you will have experiences for test the local tastes of district. Also you will have experiences about the Ottoman and Seljuks village life, and see the many manuscript books which are more than 200 years old which saving in Historical Necib Pasha Library.
Töngül Pide Fırını
  • 45m
Continuing its 127-year-old family tradition and labor for 4 generations, Töngül Pide Bakery continues to offer Ödemiş's signature flavor, Töngül pita, to its customers with the same recipe, sincerity and family warmth. The famous one-of-a-kind pita made with the Töngül family's special pita dough; It is combined with plenty of parsley, village butter and minced meat and cooked in a bottom-burning oven with oak wood. The historical flavor, served by smearing olive oil on the warm pita taken out of the oven and grating Ödemiş's tulum cheese on top, has been passed down from grandfather to son and has been offering real wood-fired pitas to its customers for more than a century.
Birgi
  • 1h
The village, which attracts attention with its rich culture, lush nature, and natural beauty, offers visitors an opportunity to observe rare examples of traditional residential texture dating back to the 18th century. With over 200 registered cultural assets, Birgi was placed on the Tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2012. In addition, it is also involved in international organisations such as the Cittaslow Slow Cities network.
Birgi Cakiraga Mansion
  • 45m
The 18th-century Çakırağa Mansion is a stellar reflection of the architectural and decorative style specific to the region at the time. There is a general belief that Çakırağa Mansion was built by Şerif Aliağa. It is one of the few mansions whose architectural style was preserved just as it was in the first construction and settlement period in the Aegean region. The building is an important source in Turkish architecture for understanding the daily life of the Ottoman Empire. The Mansion, which is one of the most beautiful examples of wooden Turkish houses, stands at the end of a garden adorned with flowers.
Tire
  • 1h
Tire köftesi (Tire Meatball) refers to a special type of ground meat dish that originates from the Tire district of İzmir, Türkiye. Tire köftesi (Tire Meatball) consists of minced meat (often lamb or a mix of beef and lamb), breadcrumbs or stale bread soaked in milk or water, onions, garlic, and various spices. One distinguishing feature is its soft and juicy texture, which is achieved through its specific mixture of ingredients and cooking method: they are often shallow-fried until they have a crispy exterior, then they might be simmered in a sauce or served directly. Tire köftesi is often served with sides like, grilled vegetables, or fresh salads.
Necippaşa Kütüphanesi
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Off the beaten track of researchers and scholars of the Ottoman Empire, Tire Necip Paşa Library is an endowment (Tr. vakıf, Ar. waqf) library dating back to the early-nineteenth century located in the Turkish town of Tire in Izmir province. Established in 1827-28 by the Ottoman statesman Mehmed Necib Paşa, the library boasts 5156 titles that include 1754 manuscripts and 3402 print books in modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian. The library continues to serve researchers through digitization services and limited capacity in-person viewings in its original location today.
Kusadasi
  • 45m
At the end of the tour, you will be transfered back to your hotel in Kusadasi.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESIstanbul
    • Istanbul, Turkiye

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLECappadocia
    • Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEUçhisar
    • Uçhisar, Nevşehir, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEÜrgüp
    • Ürgüp, Nevşehir, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEİstanbul
    • İstanbul, İstanbul, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEAvanos
    • Avanos, Nevşehir, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEOrtahisar
    • 50650, Ortahisar, Nevşehir, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEGöreme
    • 50180, Göreme, Nevşehir, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEKuşadası
    • Kuşadası, Aydın, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLESelçuk
    • Selçuk, İzmir, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEBodrum
    • Bodrum, Muğla, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEAntalya
    • Antalya, Antalya, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEMarmaris
    • Marmaris, Muğla, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEİzmir
    • İzmir, İzmir, Türkiye
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEPamukkale
    • 20190, Pamukkale, Denizli, Türkiye

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