Kayseri Airport to Derinkuyu Transfer Service

Travelling to Derinkuyu from Kayseri Airport (ASR)? Begin your journey in comfort with our professional Kayseri Airport to Derinkuyu transfer service. We provide direct private transportation from Kayseri Airport to Derinkuyu — 115 kilometres in approximately 99 minutes — with a professional driver confirmed and waiting at arrivals.

Why Choose Our Kayseri Airport to Derinkuyu Taxi Service?

Kayseri Airport is the eastern gateway to Cappadocia — the extraordinary UNESCO World Heritage volcanic landscape of fairy chimneys, underground cities and Byzantine cave churches that is one of the most visited and most photographed destinations in the world. From the hot air balloon sunrises over Göreme to the deepest underground city at Derinkuyu, from the ski slopes of Turkey's finest resort at Erciyes to the ancient pottery traditions of Avanos, our Kayseri Airport to Derinkuyu private transfer delivers you directly to your hotel or cave dwelling — confirmed, comfortable and door-to-door.

About Derinkuyu

Derinkuyu Underground City is the deepest, the most extensive and the most architecturally remarkable of all Cappadocia's underground complexes — an ancient subterranean city carved 85 metres into the volcanic tuff below the village of Derinkuyu, extending 11 storeys underground with a total area of approximately 1,500 square metres on each level, capable of sheltering between 20,000 and 50,000 people (estimates vary considerably) along with their livestock and food supplies for months at a time. Discovered in 1963 when a resident found a mysterious passage behind a wall during home renovation, Derinkuyu was first opened to visitors in 1969 and has since become one of the most astonishing archaeological discoveries of the 20th century.

Derinkuyu's underground infrastructure gives the most vivid account of how early Christian communities (and possibly pre-Christian Phrygian or Hittite communities — the earliest levels may predate the Christian period) organised life underground during extended periods of persecution and danger. The 11 accessible storeys contain living quarters, wine cellars, oil presses, stables, a school (with arched stone ceiling), a church (on the lowest accessible level, with an unusual cruciform plan), meeting rooms, arsenals and a remarkable ventilation system of 52 shafts, some extending the full 85-metre depth. The 8km tunnel connecting Derinkuyu to Kaymaklı (never fully opened to the public) is the most extraordinary single feature of the underground landscape.

Important Transfer Information

Deepest Underground City in the World — 85 Metres, 11 Storeys: Derinkuyu Underground City (85 metres deep, 11 storeys, 20,000–50,000 person capacity) is the deepest and most complete underground city in the world — its 11 accessible storeys of living quarters, wine presses, stables, school, church, arsenals and 52-shaft ventilation system give the most comprehensive and most astonishing account of ancient underground civilisation in any site open to visitors.

Early Christian Refuge — School, Church and Complete Underground Society: Derinkuyu's underground church (cruciform plan, lowest accessible level), school (arched stone ceiling, second level), wine cellars and oil presses give evidence of a complete self-sufficient underground society — the most vivid and most moving account of the lengths to which early Christian communities went to survive persecution, their extraordinary engineering and communal organisation creating a world without precedent in the ancient Near East.

D765 Southern Cappadocia Transfer — Deepest Destination: The transfer from Kayseri Airport to Derinkuyu takes approximately 99 minutes via the D300/D765 road — the longest transfer in this collection, reaching the deepest point of the southern Cappadocia underground landscape.

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