Cappadocia Experience

Hanging out with the Fairies in Turkey

Advantages: Beautiful scenery, eerie architecture, lovely people
Disadvantages: Not so easy to get to, very hot in summer

Background ********** I had heard great things about the Turkish region of Cappodocia and it had long been on my list of 'must visit' locations so this March my husband and I booked a one week trip with the adventure travel company Explore. We travelled from Istanbul to Konya on an overnight train, which easily beat the wheels off any of the many sleeper services I've tried around the world. From Konya it was another 4-5 hours by bus to the town ...
...are thinking of doing something like this yourself, I can certainly recommend the train journey but would not advise staying in Konya - I've been for business and it's just a rather bleak industrial town (good if you want to meet biscuit manufacturers but not many people do!) Where is Cappodocia? ****************** The simple answer to that is - slap bang in the middle of Turkey. It's in the central Anatolian plane - a long way from the seaside ...

koshkha 24.04.2006 · Read full review
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what i think

Advantages: different to anywhere else
Disadvantages: some parts quite smelly

...that you can fully appreciate cappadocia till you come back and get in to your own routine again to think that people live in rock formations is beyond belief but to actually see it is astonishing. History around 3 million years ago erciyes mountain and hasan mountain erupted (volcanoes). They covered the area with a brittle rock known as tuff. throughout the years wind and rain have eroded Cappadocia's amazing landscape of rock cones,capped pinnacles ...
...and greys. my verdict Cappodocia is set away from all the beaches of turkey it is not really a day trip as you have to stay there for a number of days so i would say it is definately in the middle of turkey. It isen't a resort its more the town that never got out of the stone ages. All that is there is stones well more like caves that are a couple of storeys high and in shapes of cones. there what people live in there and have done since 4.000bc. ...

keza1 29.02.2004 · Read full review
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Cappadocia - off the beaten track

Advantages: Breathtaking scenery
Disadvantages: Possible crowds?

...was a week spent in Cappadocia in 1999. I mention the year as tourism figures that year were dramatically reduced which may have somewhat affected my perception of the sites which were not overcrowded, and only had to odd coach load of visitors passing through. Cappadocia is an area of Turkey characterised by it's bizarre rock formations, which are the result of volcanic tuff being eroded over time, leaving deeply carved valleys and tall 'fairy chimneys' ...
...of how much time you have and what kind of holiday you're after (it's a LONG way from any beach!). However, to do the landscape of Cappadocia justice I would give it as much time as you can, at least 3 days. I will be returning if give the chance. ...

anjuschka 16.05.2001 · Read full review
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