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Calis Beach Forum => Calis Beach Questions and Information => Topic started by: Dry Pete on August 28, 2017, 07:24:46 AM
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We are thinking about driving to Cappadocia when next in Turkey (in a few weeks).
We would like to break our journey half way there and also on the way back. We have been looking at Konya and also Lake Egirdir. Has any one done this? Any advice / recommendations of places to stop, hotels etc.
Have also been looking at 'Tours by Locals' in Cappadocia - has any one experience of them. Any advice on hotels in Cappadocia?
Many thanks in advance for your replies. Pete
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Did this last year. Quite a lot of driving but well worth it. Stopped in Konya on the way over and returned via Esparta and Lake Egirdir on the way back. One word of warning the road from Konya to Cappadocia is extremely long flat and boring. We stayed at Charley's Pension at the lake which was great. BTW if you are planning to live up to your Member name you should like Konya as there is hardly a bar to be seen... ;)
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I'm having trouble loading photos so this might be a mess
Some photos of Egirdir.
The lake with an island with a causeway linking it to the land. This is where we stayed.
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A bit windy when we were there,
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Egirdir Castle
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Goreme is a good place to stay in Cappadocia and the balloon trips are really exciting. There are lots of different types of hotels to stay in. The cave hotels can be lovely.If you search in the Places to visit section a lot of people have written about Cappadocia. The drive there is soo long though just miles of dry flat dusty plains. Konya too is well worth a visit.
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A house that could be older than the castle!
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We drove there last October from Fethiye. Stopped off at Isparta on route. The lakes were about another 45 mins away and with hindsight would have probably stopped there as Isparta is just another busy city. As we had a car we stayed in Çavuşin which was nice and quiet and has a number of hotels to choose from, all very similar in price and quality but Göreme which was only a 5 min drive away has a lot more choice of not only hotels but places to eat out. We paid about 80 euros each for a balloon ride. On the way back we stopped the night in Konya near the Mevlana Museum which is famous for the whirling dervishes. Again there are a number of hotels near by. I would recommend a sat nav (I used googlemaps on my phone) to find these hotels as it is a big city. Don’t expect to find a bar when here though! We then came back via Antalya which was a shorter and more scenic route than on the way there
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Mosque build over the town gateway.
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This is the cave hotel where we stayed in Goreme.
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I've always wanted to visit and wonder if anyone has info on organised trips from Fethiye, giving prices and time schedules. Thank you.
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We did not go with them but a company called Alaturka did do trips to Cappadocia.
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One word of warning the road from Konya to Cappadocia is extremely long flat and boring.
Got to agree with Philrose on this. Here's what I wrote on CBF when the journey was still fresh in my mind.
It is difficult to convey the sheer tedium of this part of the route. The Central Anatolian Plain is almost dead flat - like the Great Plains of the United States when you see then on films. The single-carriageway road is rifle-barrel straight. The plain is, apparently, a major supplier of wheat and barley in Turkey. But, by the time we were there in September, this had long since been harvested. What remained was a parched stubble in vast dusty expanses. There are no features; no trees or bushes; there are few people and fewer animals. In short there is almost nothing of interest. Passing a petrol station every 20 minutes is a major excitement. When we travelled there were roadworks in progress - another two-lane highway being built in parallel to the existing road. Gravel moving lorries were constantly depositing new heaps of dusty roadcovering on this side of the road travelling across from quarries or depots on the other side and throwing up huge clouds of dust through which you had to slow to a crawl to navigate. There being nothing to give perspective, no benchmark for comparison, distances were difficult to judge. The dot in front on the road might be a car 300 metres in front, or a lorry 1 kilometre away. Actually it was always a lorry that seemed to be spaced at one per kilometre all along this awful road. This - coupled with the white haziness of the sky, the whiteness of the road, the whiteness of the dust clouds, and the parched beige of the fields - made the journey across the plain a hard one. Pity we hadn't taken some CDs to help us along it. The only thing to be said in its favour is, that since few other people other than lorry drivers were travelling that way, it took only an hour and a quarter to cross with accelerator hard to the floorboards.
The end of the Anatolian Plain is marked by Aksaray. Immediately driving became easier and more pleasurable. The relentless plain was replaced by rolling hills, a road dual-carriageway road with broad sweeping curves, and even some vegetation. This improved even more on approaching Nevsehir. This city marks the western edge of Kapadoka and after here the landscape changed dramatically. Within minutes we began to feel the magic of the country we had entered.
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We drove there last October from Fethiye. Stopped off at Isparta on route. The lakes were about another 45 mins away and with hindsight would have probably stopped there as Isparta is just another busy city. As we had a car we stayed in Çavuşin which was nice and quiet and has a number of hotels to choose from, all very similar in price and quality but Göreme which was only a 5 min drive away has a lot more choice of not only hotels but places to eat out. We paid about 80 euros each for a balloon ride. On the way back we stopped the night in Konya near the Mevlana Museum which is famous for the whirling dervishes. Again there are a number of hotels near by. I would recommend a sat nav (I used googlemaps on my phone) to find these hotels as it is a big city. Don’t expect to find a bar when here though! We then came back via Antalya which was a shorter and more scenic route than on the way there
Even though we have new maps loaded on the Sat Nav,still couldn't find our Pension in Konya it was totally confused by the one way streets,
eventually we stopped a Trafic Police car they stopped the traffic asked us to make an illegal u turn took us through no left turn lights whilst stopping the flow of traffic,delivered us right outside the Pension.A big tick for Konya Trafic as far as we are concerned. Konya itself not as restricted as we were led to believe plenty of young Turkish wearing modern western clothing.brilliant public transport system with lots of English language speakers about
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We stayed a few years ago in ürgüp Göreme. Lovely place day and night. Hotel Akuzun really nice boutique hotel with breakfast served in the front garden. www.hotelakuzun.com 00903843413869 if still same number.
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We stopped at a lovely old wooden mosque on the way to Cappadocia. Anyone any idea where that would have been?
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Eşrefoğlu Camii, Beyşehir ?
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The mosque at Beysehip was built at the end of the 13th century during the Selcuk reign. It features cedar treetrunk pillars, a walnut mimber and fantastic blue tiling throughout.
Entrance to Mosque
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Cedarwood Pillars around Pool (the mosque used to have an open roof)
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Top of Pillar
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Mihrab
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Mimber
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Yes,I think that was it! Some ladies who did not have a headscarf were handed one from a basket by ladies at the entrance. There were skirts available as well if you were wearing shorts which were not considered modest enough to enter a place of worship. Same thing happened at Konya. The mosque was very old and beautiful.
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Saw this yesterday LEGENDARY CAPPADOCCIA TRIP
14-17 September 2017 (3 nights, 4 days)
TOUR PROGRAMME
1st day : Departing from Fethiye to Cappadoccia at 06:00. Meeting point will be opposite of LCW store, Esref Girginç Park .On the way to Cappadoccia we visit Mevlana Museum and Kervansaray in Konya. After Konya visitis departing to Cappadoccia , arriving to hotel, dinner and rest.
2nd day: After breakfast starting to visits. Places to see today will be Uçhisar Castle, Göreme Open Air Museum ant pot workshop. After our visits coming back to hotel for dinner and rest.
3rd day : Leaving the hotel after breakfast. Places that we’ll visit today will be Paşabağ Fairy Chimneys, Turasan Wine Factory, Asmalı Konak Mension where the popular Turkish Serial movie was shooting in Ürgüp and Kaymaklı Underground City. After visits, we will go back to the hotel.There will be optional Turkish Night fort he guest who wants to see traditional Turkish dances
4th day: Leaving hotel after breakfast. We’ll visit the most popular valley, Ihlara Valley today.After that we’ll depart back to Fethiye. With the comfort stops on the way we are expecting to be back in Fethiye around 23:00.
Tour Price:160 GBP (in double room p.p.)
Included in the Service: Accomodation in 5 star Hotel in Cappadoccia.half board-open buffet breakfast and dinner), official guide service in Cappadoccia,entrence fees, transportation with comfortable vehicles, travel insuruance.
Tour Date : 14-17 September 2017 (4 days, 3 nights)
To book, please call Koral Office Fethiye Office: 0 252 616 73 75 Mobile : 0 533 639 96 76 or Marmaris Office: 444 80 98
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Many thanks for all the interesting and useful advice. I saw this organised tour being advertised, it would have been ideal, but we don't arrive until the 16th, a real shame.
By the way the 'Dry' in 'Dry Pete' refers to my sense of humour not a dislike of alcohol !! Pete