I arrived in Urgup yesterday from Kayseri, only a 60 kilometer trip. Urgup is a wonderful small relaxing town in Cappadocia. The hotel I am staying is like staying at grandmas house, the older lady is a delight, and my room is cozy with wooded knotted walls, a down blanket, with a private bathroom. In [...]
The Archives of Visiting Cappadocia in Turkey
Cappadocia is the most popular place in Turkey, but can be a tourist trap. Learn more how I avoided the tourist syndrome of Cappadocia. I visited Cappadocia for eight days while traveling Turkey for 2.5 months.
I decided to walk around town and thought of just walking up the hill to the Northeast side of town where the high class hotels are located. I continued walking (up hill) to the back end of the town and look what I found. There is a trail that goes around the large hill (more [...]
The town of Cavusin is one of the oldest inhabited areas of Cappadocia, a slow relaxed town, a delight to spend a night. However most people stay in Goreme and take a day trip to Cavusin and the surrounding valleys. Goreme is only 2 kilometers down the road. Many tour buses come and go here [...]
Being based in Cavusin is ideal for trekking around the different valleys of Cappadoica. Today I hiked around the Rose, Red, and the Kizilcukur Valleys. There were very few tourists, I did not run into any in the first two hours.These valleys are spectacular and diverse in color. I found some spots that created echos—my [...]
Yesterday I went trekking from my base in Cauvsin to an open air museum, although I was above on the mountain of the area while all the tourists from the tourist buses were down below, from that area I hiked to another open air museum that there were very few tourists. This area was wonderful—I [...]
The village of Ortahisar is well worth the visit that resides only six kilometers from Urgup and three kilometers from Goreme. The high stone citadel dominates the non-touristic village.Ortahnisar is indeed a worthy option as an alternative base for Cappadocia, although conservative, but relaxed without the tourist syndrome. Ortahnisar is a quite farming village where [...]
Well, you’re looking at it—the love valley of Cappadocia, the land of giant erected penises. I am not to sure if the reader can discern a little Divine direction in the natural sculpture work of these giant erected penises, but I do. This can be kind of strange for some, I mean really, Mother Nature [...]
The panorama view from Uchisar is outstanding. The hotel I am staying at is icing on the cake that will end my independent tour of Cappadocia. I decided to splurge because of the incredible view and the room is the cave style room.Mount Ercyies in the background and the castle at Ortahisar can be viewed. [...]
Visiting Cappadocia, a couple of the underground cities should be added to your tour. The Hittites began the process of underground dwelling and defenses around 1800 BCE. There are 200 underground cities in the area of Cappadocia and 9 are open to the public—many or these underground cities connect through tunnels.The two underground cities I [...]
Since I left India I have been at a crossroads concerning international travel. As I mentioned prior, I experienced and saw the countries I have always wanted to visit. I lived in several places such as Bulgaria. At this point my international travels are ending at the end of August. I have been going over [...]
