This tour option gives you the opportunity to taste the best of Turkish Cuisine as well as visiting one of the no-tourism-touch villages in Cappadocia in one day.
Our guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel at 10:00 and first drive you to one of the local markets in Cappadocia (except Tuesday and Thursday) and you will get some ingredients for what you are going to cook for yourself. We will then take you to a local house to start preparing the delicious food. Firstly, you will learn how to cook the most famous soup in Turkey: lentil soup. Lentil is grown in Turkey and it has become the most popular soup in Turkey for centuries and it offers really a very good taste. While your lentil soup is being cooked, you will start the process of cooking Karniyarik (riven belly). Eggplant plays a very important role in Turkish Cuisine and Karniyarik is one of the most delicious recipes with it. Karniyarik is a meal consisting of eggplant stuffed with a mix of chopped onions, garlic, black pepper, tomatoes, parsley and ground meat.
The next meal will be Sarma which is also very famous in Turkey. Sarma can be described as stuffed vine leaves cooked with olive oil. You will learn the tricks on choosing good vine leaves and rolling techniques from our local woman who keeps surprising you. This will probably be the most interesting and enjoyable part on your tour. While we are in the local market, we will get some fresh fruits as our dessert. Finally, our local woman will offer you some Turkish Coffee. Even though Turkey have no coffee at all, the way we are preparing made its own culture and it started to be called as Turkish Coffee. You will learn how to make it and also the traditions of drinking a coffee and history of it.
After this great experience, we will drive you toa local village in Cappadocia. There are still lots of villages in Cappadocia which has no touch of tourism meaning no hotels or restaurants. We will be the only ones in the village that speak English:). We will walk through the village and try to speak with the locals about their lifestyle and also work. If we are lucky enough, we will see some people working in their wineyards or riding a donkey. Finally, we will visit the main coffeehouse in the village and our guide will find you some locals to play our national game OKEY. Our guide will teach you the basics of the game and then you will see the playing culture of this game. The tour will end around 5:00pm and we will drive you back to your hotel.
The tour will end around 5:00pm and we will drop you off to your hotel. The rate for this tour will be 120 Euro per person including your guide, transportation to / from your hotel, admission fees and the meal. The rate for a single person will be 180 Euro per person.
Please send us an email to get more information and make your booking. We will reply your request the latest in 24 hours.
• Pick-up from your hotel
• Drive to the local market
• Get ingredients for cooking
• Cook meal with the local chef
• Drop-off at your hotel
Pick-up from your hotel
Transportation with luxury vehicles
Lunch
Professionally-licensed English speaking guide
Drop-off to your hotel
Optional tips to the chef, guide or driver
When you email us regarding the balloon flight, we will send you an itinerary based on the actual “real-time” availability. Until your deposit is received through our secure form, the availability of the balloon flight might change. When we confirm your reservation; all rates are guaranteed.
When you agreed the itinerary with our travel agent, we will request a 30% deposit to confirm all your reservations. We have 256bit SSL secure form that you can safely send your credit card details in our website.
Once we receive your deposit , we will confirm your reservation and email you the travel voucher within 1 business day. The balance due can be paid at any time before to arrival – or you can pay after the balloon flight in our balloon office.
To confirm this itinerary, please provide us with the details of your hotel in Cappadocia so that we may arrange a pick-up/drop-off service. All hotels in Cappadocia qualify for complimentary pick-up/drop-off services.
Below is the general guideline for our cancellation policy if your agent does not mention otherwise:
Cancellation Policy for Cooking Classes:
If you cancel 48 hours before the balloon flight, there is no cancellation fee.
If you cancel within 48 hours to 24 hours before the ride, we will charge 50% cancellation fee.
If you cancel within 24 hours of the flight , we will charge the full amount as cancellation fee.
We cannot give any refund on no-shows for the flights.