Cappadocia Ballooning
Easily the best way to see the otherworldly landscape of Cappadocia is from a balloon—and ballooning here is now so popular as to have become de rigueur.
There are several operations that run ballooning trips, everything from a quick up-and-down packed into a basket with a big crowd to four hours in a smaller basket where everyone has a view.
We chose the Rolls Royce of balloon trips (hey, when’s the next time we’ll be in Cappadocia?), with Kapadokya Balloons, an outfit run by Lars-Eric Möre...
January 19th, 2009 | Brendan | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: adventure, ballooning, Cappadocia, turkey
Cappadocia: the world’s most famous troglodytes
One of the most famous landscapes in the world, Cappadocia (pronounced like the Turkish spelling, Kapadokya) is a huge, arid Dr. Seuss-meets-bad-acid-trip region of fairy chimneys, knife-sharp gullies and scalloped hillsides. The result of millennia of rain and wind eroding what was once a lava-covered plain, Cappadocia is world-renowned not only for its mind-boggling geography, but also for its human inhabitants: generations have taken advantage of the soft tuff by making their homes in caves dug...
January 14th, 2009 | Brendan | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Cappadocia, culture, nature, turkey
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