Cappadocia travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

Opened in 2002, the Museum Hotel is a unique cave hotel in Cappadocia, Turkey. Located in Uchisar, at the peak of Cappadocia, this luxury property enjoys an enviable location built into the side of a hill on a 5,000 sq m plot of land. Due to its unique location all rooms, restaurant and terraces overlook the most important sights of the amazing region including Avanos, Goreme, the Red Valley and the Mount Erciyes at the edge of the horizon. Largely considered as the first luxury boutique hotel in Cappadocia, Museum Hotel was restored from old ruins and decorated so that guests experience the local history and culture.

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Hot-air ballooning is one of the greatest way to travel: floating peacefully with the wind across the landscape. Over Cappadocia, it is truly sublime. This rugged region of central Turkey has some of the most stunning terrain in the world. Soft volcanic rocks have been eroded into strangely shaped pillars and stacks. There are hundreds of these ”fairly chimneys” in natural colours ranging from dark pink to yellow, and ballooning is sometimes the only way to see them.

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Hotel Burcu Kaya is in Ortahisar, the heart of the Cappadocia, where the culture and the history units each other. She was built as the style of Seljucks architecture using rock carving techneology.  Hotel is close to the main tourist attractions.

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Situated in the heart of the Cappadocia district, just 20 minutes from Urgup. Located on a slight hill, it is very impressive from the highway. The architecture and decor is inspired by the unique landscape of Cappadocia.  Antalya 634 km., Kayseri Airport 90 km., and Nevsehir Airport 20 km. Peri Tower hotel provides a range of accommodation to suit solo travellers and families.

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The  Hotel is located in overlooking Urgup the center of Cappadocia with an unique panoramic view and only 500m to the city center. Hotel Urgup offers numerous services and activities to make you enjoy your holidays.

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This Goreme’s most luxurious cave hotel is for sure the best choice for demanding tourists, with spectacular views looking out towards Uchisar and Cavusin.

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In the international travel guides Gamirasu Cave Hotel is considered as one of the best cave hotels of Cappadocia, Turkey. In wedding magazines it is mentioned as the ideal choice for honeymoons or romantic escape. Opened in 1999, Gamirasu is an exquisitely totally restored Byzantine monastic retreat in Ayvali Village – the area which has been known to be inhabited for more than five thousand years.

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Goreme which have the old names of Korama, Matiana and Maccan is 10 km far away from the center of Nevsehir province. The valley created from volcanic rocks is famous with the chimney rocks resulting from the erosion made by the natural factors to these rocks and with the historical richness. It has been an important religious place together with the intensive emigration of the first Christians escaping from the pressure of the Roman soldiers. The population escaped from the pressures has made many abbeys, churches and houses in the volcanic rocks from the valley where they were able to hidden easily. In our days in Goreme are found Elmali Church, Saint Barbara Church, Carikli Church, Tokali Church and Hidden Church and all of these are open air museums. In the churches there are scenes from the life of Jesus, descriptions of the saints who written the Bible and pictures of Saint Barbara and Saint Georgius.

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1. The Ice Hotel, Sweden
Consistently getting top scores in readers’ surveys, the Ice Hotel is the coolest hotel around (literally). Built afresh every December with ice from the River Thorne in northern Sweden, and featuring specially commissioned artwork each year, this fairytale hotel is a very romantic retreat (you sleep on ice blocks covered in reindeers skins), if you can face the sub-zero temperatures in the rooms. There is an ice bar, a wedding chapel and more traditional cabins for those who don’t like to be quite so chilled. Go now: with the impact of global warming, the option of staying at this amazing hotel might not be with us for long. (website: www.icehotel.com)

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For millions of years, the mighty volcanoes of the Central Anatolian Plateau erupted and spewed their contents across the land that would become the cradle of civilization. Blessed with a moderate climate and fertile soil, one of the world’s earliest known communities was founded 10,000 years ago at Catalhoyuk along the river banks of the Casambasuyu near Konya. Mankind’s first nature painting was found here and it portrays the most recent eruption of Hasan Dagi almost 9000 years ago.

Another great volcano rises in the distance to the east of Hasan Dagi. Once called Mt. Argeus, the awesome presence of Erciyes Dagi inspired legends as the Abode of the Gods and the Persians built a Zoroastrian fire temple nearby. These two ancient volcanoes mark the western and eastern boundaries of a region known for its curious volcanic landscape that has been relentlessly carved by nature and by the people who have lived here. Fairy chimneys, cones and strange rock formations have been sculpted by wind and rain while subterranean towns were excavated by a populace seeking shelter from the conquerors and would-be conquerors who crisscrossed the wide open steppes of the Central Anatolian Plateau.

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