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Offline Ray1951

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Re: Cappadocia Trip - advice please
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2017, 09:41:00 AM »
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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« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2017, 10:13:45 AM »
We did not go with them but a company called Alaturka  did do trips to Cappadocia.

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Re: Cappadocia Trip - advice please
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2017, 10:40:54 AM »
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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Re: Cappadocia Trip - advice please
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2017, 14:24:39 PM »
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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Re: Cappadocia Trip - advice please
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2017, 14:43:07 PM »
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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« Reply #15 on: August 28, 2017, 16:48:53 PM »
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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Re: Cappadocia Trip - advice please
« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2017, 17:04:32 PM »
Eşrefoğlu Camii, Beyşehir ?

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« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2017, 17:37:07 PM »
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



Cedarwood Pillars around Pool (the mosque used to have an open roof)







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Re: Cappadocia Trip - advice please
« Reply #18 on: August 28, 2017, 17:39:45 PM »
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Re: Cappadocia Trip - advice please
« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2017, 17:41:25 PM »
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