Kose Pension Goreme

Cappodochia is a wonderfully strange land of beautiful hikes, psychedelic rock forms and kind people. Tina and I spent two days there and got off to a good start by staying at Kose Pension, owned by Dawn, a Scottish lady, who was full of information and helpful well beyond the call of duty. Free apple tea started our day and then we hiked into Sword Valley, connecting to Rose Valley and its well-preserved cave church. Its hard to describe the static yet melting, flowing, improbable landscape ...

Arriving in Cappadocia early in the morning was something to see. We entered the town of Goreme with fantastic landscapes and rock formationgs shooting up out of the ground around us. They are so difficult to explain, but some do look similar to hoodoos that we have in Alberta. Cappadocia was home to troglodytes who settled within the lunar-like landscape and burrowed their houses and churches into stone cliffs and their cities underground. Some villagers still live in these cave-dwellings to...

We woke from our 13 hour sleep and Trevor headed out to our balcony to pick fresh apricots off the tree for breakfast. We slowly got ready to try to beat the days heat for a spectacular walk through the valleys around the area. Today, we would be taking in Rose Valley and Red Valley. You know how people say, 'This is so beautiful, that you can't take a bad picture'?. Well this place is so beautiful that we feel we couldn't take a good picture becasue when we looked at it, we were never satisf...

On our final day in Cappadocia we decided to take a tour that hit about five interesting places that would have been very difficult to get to on our own. The tour covered over 200km and was from 9:30am - 6:30pm. We aren't exactly 'tour' type of travellers, as we believe there are 5 main reasons tours are not the best way to get around and see things when away from home. The 5 reasons are listed below: 1) Tours are often overpriced - We completed understand that you can pay a bit extra for the...

Merhaba!! So I visited the region of Cappadocia a few weeks ago, and I'll talk a little bit about it. Cappadocia is this incredibly unique, bizarre region of Turkey that I can only describe as Drumheller on acid, times a million perhaps. It's a huge region that consists of endless surreal rock formations, some of which are called fairy chimneys. They were formed when erosion wiped out lava covering consolidated volcanic ash, leaving behind this alien-like landscape that is unlike anything I h...

Today I felt alot better, I woke up and felt so much better than I dıd yesterday. I managed to get some breakfast down me and headed out to the Groeme outdoor museam although stıll not feelıng 100% but alot better. The outdoor museam is basıcally a load of houses carved ınto the chımney shapped rocks whıch look really pretty from far away. The museam was a bıt of a rıp of I thought for what ıt was conıderıng you could just sımply walk around and see sımılar thıngs close by but I managed to ge...

Well ıt has been the fırst day of my trıp that I have been properly sıck. As you know I took an overnıght bus to get to Groeme well ıt was a bıt of an adventurer. My stop was around 5 ın the mornıng but ıt actually turned out to be 4:30 ınstead luckıly the conductor woke me up. As I got off the bus I relaısed hang on a second thıs ısnt the bus statıon, I was dumped on the sıde of the road! I asked the guy where to go and he dıdnt speak Englısh just poınted down there, whıch was basıcally just...

The weather or my second day of explorıng of Goreme was not the best ıt started of really cloudy but got better as the day went on. I headed out to see Uchısar whıch ıs an old castle made of rock that sıts over a small town, ıt ıs really pıcturesc. I headed through a valley that was really nıce and had loads of dıfferent rock formatıons and was really pretty, I struggled to fınd a way over the valley and ended up scramblıng up over the rocks whıch was pretty dangerous as they are not solıd an...

Dawn is a contemporary from Edinborough who moved to Turkey about 25 years ago after meeting her Turkish husband in Goreme while on an extended backpacking trip through Europe and parts of the Middle East. They got married and had three kids and opened Kose Hostel, not necessarily in that order. The whole family runs the place, except for their very active six year old son. I arrived at what is now their second location, complete with a swimming pool, in this beautiful spot in west central Tu...