A landscape of rock pinnacles ('fairy chimneys'), valleys and cave dwellings in central Turkey, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. At dawn, a hundred or more hot-air balloons rise over the valleys.
The Göreme Open-Air Museum has rock-cut churches with Byzantine frescoes. Explore the Derinkuyu underground city and hike the Rose and Love valleys. Stay in a cave hotel. Book balloon flights ahead; they're cancelled in bad weather.
An underground city carved into the soft rock up to 85 m deep, with stables, wineries, chapels and ventilation shafts, which could shelter thousands …
The tomb of the Sufi poet Rumi (Mevlana), under a green-tiled dome, now a museum and a pilgrimage site.
A town of well-preserved Ottoman timber-framed houses, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, once a stop on the caravan route.
A mountain top at 2,134 m where King Antiochus of Commagene built a tomb mound in the 1st century BC, with huge stone heads of gods and kings now sca…
The world's oldest known monumental temple, built around 9600 BC by hunter-gatherers, thousands of years before Stonehenge, with huge T-shaped stone …
The walled old town of Antalya, with Ottoman houses, Hadrian's Gate, a Roman harbour and the Yivli Minaret, above the turquoise Mediterranean.
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