Imagine yourself standing in front of a giant earth pyramid with gaping holes in it that look like windows and doors to a netherworld. Now pan your head from left to right and see yourself surrounded ...

2002-08-04 04:00:00 PDT Urgup, Turkey-- It's long after midnight when we arrive in the town of Urgup, in the badlands of central Turkey, and a woman named Kismet is leading us down a path to our ...

Turkey’s world-famous Cappadocia region, home to fabled fairy chimneys and stunning balloon rides, welcomed over 60,000 tourists this May, local tourism officials said in a statement on Thursday.

Night descends on this desolate valley as the yatsi - the final Muslim prayer call from the muezzin - ricochets across the gorge. A donkey brays, its hooves giving off a staccato clop-clop as it heads ...

There’s something in the air in Cappadocia. Some say it’s the winged spirits — ‘peri’, in Turkish — that reputedly inhabit the region’s famous, phallic geological marvels, ‘fairy chimneys’. In the ...

For my three-day stay in Cappadocia, I am staying at Okhtai’s place: a cavern hotel in the small town of Goreme, which is a great base to explore this fascinating part of Anatolia in central Turkey.

Sitting at the meeting point of Asia and Europe, Turkey is a unique blend of east-meets-west culture, where up-to-date cities sit side-by-side with ancient landmarks and world-class beach resorts. The ...

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