The Turkish region of Cappadocia, a region of exceptional natural wonders, in particular characterized by fairy chimneys and a unique historical and cultural heritage, boasts one of the most dramatic sights in the world.
Visiting Cappadocia is such a change from visiting many other busy bustling sights all over Turkey. It is a great pleasure to wander in the vast open space filled with captivating natural attractions which have seen human history dated back in the Bronze Age.
While in Goreme Open Air Museum , the conical formations resulting from the volcanic eruptions that took place millions of years ago, just follow the path up to the top of one of the ridges where a spectacular view of the fairy chimneys awaits you. The natural cone formations contain caves and labyrinths. As early as the third century, those chimneys became a hiding place for early Christians who fled persecution from the Romans, and then later from raiding Muslims. In modern tourism, many caves have been turned into cave houses for tourist stays and the lunar-like setting of Goreme Valley has become popular for hot-air ballooning.
Many say the extremely unique landscape of Cappadocia resembles some scene in a Star Wars movie and yet you may be surprised to discover that no major commercial movies have been filmed there. It would be a perfect setting for movies such as Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter series.
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A great place to spend a day! We have never been to an "open air" museum before, and we were really amazed by this place. If you stay in Goreme, you can access this museum on foot, it takes about an hour to walk there from the village. Once you through the entrance, you can explore the huge area of…
we loved the history which we were not aware of before visiting this site….it's fantastic for art lovers, historians and nature lovers
Is really pink. Spectacular, unusual, is a unique place. We visited the place during jeep safari (speed jeep safari). We highly recommend.
A trip to Cappadocia would not be complete without seeing this amazing open-air museum of some 30 cave churches carved out of the soft volcanic rock formations. Near the entrance to the park appears a large hallowed-out rock formation which is the Kizlar Monastery where monks lived and worked. As you continue along the path there are some 30 cave…
Huge boulders, fairy chimneys, and priceless view up there with all the trees below and snowcapped Mt. Hassan. It is a nice climb to the monastery.
8 to 9 floors under the earth you would think they reached hades!!
Selfsufficient, air shafts, storage space for months, the round doorwhich could be opened only from the inside, intelligent people.As one has to crouch and crawl most of the time I'm wondering if they were really short people or those who persicuted them were too tall
September is a beautiful time to visit Cappadocia. The highlight of my visit was two days of touring with Yesim UNEN, of Insider Travel in Goreme. She was fabulous — engaging, friendly, totally delightful and very knowledgeable. Her English was terrific. The cave dwellings are really cool. The pictures are amazing but to understand that these dwellings were carved.
I found the landscape of Cappodocia to be amazing and so worthwhile to see; to experience well take a hot air balloon ride!
We recently spent an afternoon at the Goreme open-air museum and highly recommend it to all visitors to Cappadocia. The museum is an easy 1k walk from Goreme township. Inside the museum, you can walk around a valley full of rock houses and many beautiful and really ancient churches, some with frescoes intact. We also had a walk around some…
Rose was quiet and visually stunning, with warm sunshine an clean air. There is a vast maze of trails to choose from if you want to stray from the beaten path.