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Cappadocia Slideshow
Cappadocia
Travel Blogs from Cappadocia, Turkey
Hiking up Hasan Dag
One does not just hike up a mountain in Turkey without walking through history... and that's what I did this past weekend... Loaded up the van and headed out of town with the rising of the sun... with a very good friend of mine... fellow ...
cave fun time
Spent a few nights in cappadocia with our friends from the cruise, paul and anso (anne sophie). Super cool here!! Tons of ancient old rock caves that were homes that christians lived in back in like 300 - 1200 AD. Tons of people also do hot air balloon ...
Selime Cathedral
We woke up in Goreme to snow! Not to be deterred, Chris and I rented a car in order to avoid having to take a tour bus/group. Jumping in our Hyundai, we headed down the highway stopping to see the snowy landscape and the nearby and towering ...
The Caves of Cappadocia
I have traveled quite extensively throughout the world and one of my favourite places to visit is the region of Cappadocia in Turkey. Famous for its cave hotels and lunar-looking landscapes, this little known part of the world offers visitors a multitude ...
Taking it easy in the Turkish Mediterranean
Monday (Oct 15) Last night I decided to give sleeping outside on the deck another try. It started off with about 5 of us and I surprisingly fell asleep very easily. I woke up about 3 in the morning however freezing cold so retreated to the warmth of ...
Cappadocia on a Scooter
Wednesday (Oct 24) Today myself and another Aussie couple (Trent and Ainslie) who I met on the overnight bus decided to get scooters for the day. This was my first scooter hire experience on the trip so I was super excited. We (by we I ...
Love Walley Tour
Another glorious day to sleep slightly late. We all rose and ate our delicious Turkish breakfast at around 9:00AM and were on a bus at 9:30 for a tour of the region. The bus was small (10-15 people) and were designed to look like the inside ...
Cappadocia
... because of their unique shape. The town of Goreme was quite small and easily walkable. It still managed to retain much its local flavor despite the many tourists. Cappadocia is a must see on any trip to Turkey and definitely a highlight of my ...
Exploring beautiful Cappadocia
... (is that a word?... Mıcrosoft Word says no) so I decided to check out one of the star attractions of the Cappadocia region, the Goreme Open Air Museum. I arrived early as Lonely Planet suggested to "beat the crowds", but there were already 10 ...
To go or not to go into Iraq
... amazing sight of the Middle-East ! More exciting are the paperwork while entering the country by land from Turkey. The Kurdish Regional Government issues its own tourist visa, good for travelling within Iraqi Kurdistan only. Citizens of ...
Belly dancing in the middle of Turkey
Cappadocia is a central region in Turkey famous for the strange rock formations, cave dwellings and underground cities. Christian Monks lived here in the past and have carved many cave churches in the soft volcanic rock in the region. Massive and ...
Tourıng Cappadocıa
... I just sıt here untıl he gets back and lısten to hıs Amerıcan top 40 musıc (Lady Gaga ın Turkey). Takıng a bus to Antakya, Bıblıcal Antıoch, tomorrow mornıng and then headıng ınto ...
Camping in Paradise!
... of flamethrowers above our tent and quickly unzipped the front door to see the most beautiful sight of balloonists floating over the Cappadocia pinnacles at sunrise. Then we promptly went back to sleep and got up at a civilized hour. Checked ...
Cappadocia off-road
We hired bikes and checked out the region around Goreme today. The pictures speak for themselves. Overnighting it back to Istanbul tonight. Plenty more to see and do there before we fly out ...
Me vs Scooter - Round 2
... Syria and Juliet was heading to the Syrian border. Why you ask? Well she had previously been to Syria and upon re-entering Turkey she had fallen madly in love with one of the Turkish soldiers on the border. The problem was she never spoke to him ...
Fairy Chimneys & Gnomish Toadstools
... mounted on the exterior rock walls the very definition of "juxtaposition". For those unfamiliar with what is special about Cappadocia – the geological history of the area, involving 3 volcanoes, eruptions of sandstone followed by a layer of ...
Göreme: the frosty heart of Cappadocia
... It was around 3am, and I slipped in and out of sleep on the way to Göreme at the heart of Turkey's rocky and mysterious Cappadocia region. The huge canyons, valleys and strange rock formations that mark the area had been inhabited for thousands of ...
Day 248 - Rock Talk
The frozen camera provided just enough visible screen time for Eli to delete the card much to the delight of the young woman who had helped him the night before. After breakfast we set out to explore the renowned hiking just outside our village of ...
Sıght Seeıng full on
Capadocıa all. started wıth Göreme, Çavuşin, Urgup, MustafaPaşa, Mazı, Kaymakli, and agaın WAAW. I thınk I'm gonna have a heart attack ın the balloon tomrrow. It was warm and dry and sunny. whıch makes a ...
Just for Spruce... arrival in Turkey
... fill you in. First stop in Turkey is where we are now - Goreme. İts a small town in the middle of Cappadocia. As İ said at the beginning of this entry, Cappadocia is the most beautiful place İ've ever seen! Basically, ...
Turkish bath (Cappadocia)
After our long journey on the bus from Antalya to Cappadocia, we were taken to a Turkish bath. It was fantastic! Last time I was this clean and spotless, was when I was about 7! I remember my grandmother used to take me to this public bath (Hamam) in ...
Culinary school?!
As a young buy İ liked to experiment; live on the wild side, mix things up you know. As they say 'variety is the spice of life'. İ took this phrase to heart whether it was in the bathroom where you could find me making potions or at the dinner ...
Calcium pools, luxury in Antalya, cave hotel
I was reunited with Lisay in Pamukkale. That has to be one of the most boring towns on the planet, yet it is worth a visit to see the weird travertine pools formed by calcium deposits. Basically an entire hill looks like a frozen waterfall. From a ...
Sultanhani
... only reason to stop here was to visit the Sultanhani (same name as town) which is the largest han (or caravansari) in Turkey. It was built in 1229 and features a beautifully carved arch over the entrance. It was difficult imagining this han in use ...
The Balloon That Never Flew
... that we could manage to find. We took the local bus to a few towns over to visit the underground cities. The people of Cappadocia built these starting in 1500 BC and continued through the Byzantine Empire. They go down 8 to 16 stories into the ground and ...
Camping in the Sultan Marshes
... of the most important birding preserves within both Europe and the Middle East. It has been three years, since moving to Turkey, that I have been waiting to spend some time watching the spring activity within the still waters of this marsh. I ...
Cappodochia Caves and Castles
... had holes in them and doors. People still live in some of them, and people lived in all of them until the 1950s when Turkey made the Greek people leave. People have lived in these rock houses since before Jesus was born. They say that lots of things ...
Goreme - Great place. Shame about the weather!
... . So something had to give. The football won!!! At the conclusion of the football we decided to go to the Cappadocia Pide House and Restaurant where the rest of the group had eaten and see if they were still there. They were ...
Eternal Flames, Headbangers' Ball, Fairy Chimneys
... a national park in the Rockies. That evening I took an overnight bus to Goreme, in the central region of Turkey called Cappadocia. Cappadocia is famous for its bizarre rock formations called fairy chimneys, which have long been inhabited. The village ...