The name Cappadocia deriving from an ancient main deity of the Hittite pantheon Hepat with the suffix Ukh, Hepat-ukh "People of Hepat" or possibly originating from an ancient Persian word Katpatuka meaning the land of beautiful horses is truly a land of wonders.

There are plenty of valleys and walking tracks where you can walk and discover strange looking rocks some of them like mushrooms which have been carved to be used as houses, churches or stables. In the evenings it is possible to go to a Turkish night in a rock carved cabaret to dance and watch folk dances from various regions of Turkey or go to an ancient Caravanserail to watch dervishes dancing. Or what about a hot air balloon ride in the early morning? You may visit villages and discover lives of the people. Peasants wake up early in the mornings to make their ways through narrow paths on their donkey or mule chariots to their orchards or vegetable gardens. In villages you may see peasants cutting wood or baking bread for the community. You may sometimes see young women weaving rugs on their looms. Some of them to be used as a dowry for their marriage. In autumn you may see them smashing grapes to make a grape molasses which is a purple color sweet nutrient in liquid form and a good source of iron giving them energy in cold winter days. Some peasants do cultivate pumpkins and pumpkin flesh can be used to make a tasty desert mixed with walnuts. The seeds of the pumpkin will not be wasted they would cook them in stone ovens by milk to eat them later in long winter days.

Lunar Landscape

Rock Formations & rock dug troglodyte settlements

Church Frescoe

Cappadocia Saints

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