Goreme Hostels - Reviews and Rates

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Nous sommes maıntenant en Cappadoce dans le centre de la Turquıe pour 5 jours de marche. Quel paysage dıfferent. Les rochers transformes en cones, la montagne dans laquelle les gens on lıtteralement sculpte leur maıson et y habıtent encore aujourd'huı, les eglıses du 10-11e sı...

September 3rd - Ankara, Turkey

We have made the journey into Central Anatolia to escape the tourist honeytraps of Istanbul. As usual, we decided to get the bus instead of the train. It seems that here in Turkey you don't just turn up and get on a train, unless it's a local one. To travel long distance requires advance bookings and even kn...

March 20, Friday We catch the local bus back to Nevsehir and then south to the town of Kaymakle. We are going to tour the Kaymakle underground city. There are several others in this area but this city is thought to be the best preserved. It is thought these were built in The underground cities were built for security reasons. This city has 8 sto...

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 Tuesday.

We awoke to a cool cloudy day on Saturday morning and thought that the weather from Istanbul had followed us. After breakfast the clouds began to clear and it was warm by the time our tour bus arrived at 10am. We had thought that there was not much left to see after the previous days tour and were not really looking forward to another tour (as I...

We caught a dolmus from our hotel to the otogar. Passengers pay as they get on, passing their money up to the front, or to the person who happens to be closest to the driver which happened to be me, so I played the role of money taker/change returner. We noted the driver took his foot off the gas as he drove through intersections and on any (eve...

What a fabulous day. This definitely tops as one of the favorite stops on the trip. I have never seen anything like all that is around me. The land is constantly changing, eroded away over the centuries to form countless canyons, caves, mountains - I can't even explain - only pictures can make you understand. I spent the day hiking, climbing thr...