9 km north of Derinkuyu is the underground city of Kaymakli. Kaymakli is one of the largest underground cities in Cappadocia valley in present-day Turkey. This town is located 18 kilometers from the capital of the province of Nevsehir. In ancient times Kaymaklı been a haven for Christians who fled there from religious persecution, and the invasion of the Arabs.

City - a rather complicated system consisting of many floors, rooms and tunnels, wells equipped with water and ventilation. Some of the rooms were used as wine cellars, storehouses where to store more food reserves, stables, pottery, and other business premises. There was even a chapel. The entire underground city is carved into the soft volcanic rock - tuff, and its depth of about twenty meters.

Kaymaklı consists of eight floors. The first floor was built by the Hittites. Later, during the periods of Byzantine and Roman rule these artificial caves increasing all the time, and as a result formed a whole underground city, has all the conditions for long-term residence. If necessary, the city could accommodate both about fifteen thousand people.

Currently, there are only five levels excavated city, and on the lower floors still underway archaeological work .  According to scientists this is not the limit, moreover, there is the longest tunnel leading out to the Derinkuyu Kaymakli .  Archaeologists do not exclude that there might be a common underground space of cities .  Location facilities here as in "neighbor", almost exactly the same ground a city - there are underground areas, a network of streets with small dwelling houses, caves, wine presses and warehouses, black smoke from the kitchen and many kilometers of ventilation shafts .  Entrances to the portals overlap by a huge stone disk .  In an emergency, people sealed the so-called door-stopper with loopholes for archers in the center of which was a hole where to insert the support bar for the rolling disc, after which it was fixed beams and doors from the inside piled stones .

Login Kaymaklı located in the central square. In it throughout the entire route are placed signs to help tourists find their way in the maze of rooms and corridors. There was everything you need: meeting rooms, monasteries, churches and cemeteries. Stocks of water, wine and oil were stored in large clay jars.

The floors were connected to each other by sheer ventilation wells, which were at the bottom of reservoirs. Underground shelters were only a mostly two-bedroom "apartment". They maintain a constant temperature due to the ventilation system, which amounted to 27 degrees Celsius.

Kaymaklı open to tourists since 1964. It should be noted that people suffering from claustrophobia visit Kaymakli is better to abstain, because the passages there really is very narrow, and the ceilings are not very high.

Even if you love your own sightseeing in Kaymakli is best to use the services of the local tour guide for several reasons .  First, though located inside the dungeon and the arrow indicating the direction, it is, nevertheless, a city built in the hope that its inhabitants as possible was hard to find .  You are unlikely, of course, get lost, but it is likely that soon not be able to find your way .  In addition here, as in ordinary homes, no stairs between floors and one room into another, going down lower and lower .  Tourists walking to these moves, do not always believe what level they are at the moment .  Secondly, all the signs are quite simple and they do not have any explanation about what is in front of you .  If next to you will be a person familiar with the history of Kaymakli, you'll get much more pleasure from visiting the city .  Guides will always be able to tell you exactly how to use vintage objects and spaces that you currently are viewing .  In addition, despite the fact that the visit of the underground city can not be uninteresting, visitors still say to be alone out there a little bit uncomfortable .