The Ihlara Valley is an incredible gorge with a stunning river running right down the heart of the valley for 16 km within the volcanic rock. It’s a great spot for a relatively easy walk in peaceful, leafy nature. It’s also a hub for cave churches – you’ll come across many of them along the trail!

The Mevlevi culture is an ascetic Sufi order founded in 1273 in Konya, from where it gradually spread throughout the Ottoman Empire. Today, it can be found in many Turkish communities throughout the world, but the most active and famous center of the order’s activity is in Konya.

Nearly 2000 plant species display natural distribution within the provincial borders. More than 220 of these species are endemic. 14 of these species, which grow in all mountains, steppes, plains, plateaus and forests, especially in the Sündiken and Turkmen Mountains, grow only in Eskişehir in the world.

Testi Kebabı, also called Çömlek Kebabı is made from onion, garlic, tomato, and lamb meat sometimes with a topping of potato or pastry. It is cooked in a sealed clay pot and the pot is not broken until the waiter brings it to your table. This dramatic presentation, as the pot is cracked open in front of your eyes, is as enjoyable as its taste.

Central Anatolia is known as “the cradle of civilizations”. It is home to the capital of the nation at Ankara but also to the famous fairy chimneys of Cappadocia and it is the land of the Mevlana, the mystic founder of the Whirling Dervishes, in Konya.

Beautiful Cappadocia hot air balloon tour will be the best choice to discover the unique beauty of Cappadocia hot air balloons and fairy chimneys.

See or board one of the hot-air balloons, to view Cappadocia’s magical landscape and its famous fairy chimneys in the light of the rising sun. While the sun is rising, you will be mesmerized by the play of the sun rays around the magical surroundings.

Nevşehir is undoubtedly the first city that comes to mind when travellers think of visiting the Cappadocia region. Cappadocia has a unique geography that had been shaped by natural forces.