Cappadocia

The history of Cappadocia, which means : "Land of the beautiful horses" started millions of years ago with the eruption of the two volcanoes, that spewed out lots of ashes, which later hardened into tuff, the soft stone that you find all over Cappadocia.
Wind and rain washed parts of the tuff away and created the most beautiful and special landscape, which is recognized as a unique world-wonder today.
The earliest civilizations settled here, like the caveman Hittites, and later early Christians used the natural caves to extend them to churches, monasteries and even complete underground cities.

Hot air balloons over the valleys of Cappadocia
It is really impossible to see the beauty of this region in a few days, so we recommend to stay at least one week here.
The many specially formed rock-formations are called fairy-chimneys and you can find many of these in the valleys in Cappadocia such as Ihlara valley, around Ürgüp and many other places in Kapadokya. Also in the small but very old village of Akkoy lots of cave-dwellings and even a few churches can be still visited.
Cappadocia has an airport in Kayseri, which can be reached via Istanbul or nowadays also via Izmir or if you come from the Netherlands direct from Amsterdam with Turkish Airlines or
Onur Air

Entrance to cave church


The symbol of Cappadocia, the 3 beauties or in Turkish uc guzel

Goreme open air museum
The people of Cappadocia are very friendly and are glad to have a chat with you when you see them on the street. Always there is time to drink a glass of Turkish tea, even if you have never seen the person before.
Your webmaster has visited Cappadocia many times, and he plans to do so for many years to come.

View from a hot air balloon over the Red valley
We have also our own airport transfer service, so you can get to us easily, see also our rates / prices page on this website. Mail us for more information.
Just ask us what you want to see, and we fix it for you
Welcome to Cappadocia !

fairy chimney

Cappadocian girl with her pet cat

fairy chimney
Mehmet's mother preparing wheat
Cappadocian farm lady with chicken

Cappadocian old man who just went to the baker's for bread
3 Cappadocian men chatting in Akkoy
Fresco in a cave church

old cappadocian
collapsed old cave dwellings

Impression of one of the special Cappadocian magic valleys

Fresco in a cave church
The house from the famous Turkish TV- series Asmali Konak