Visit the UNESCO heritage site of Cappadocia in Turkey

<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} </style> <![endif]-->Cappadocia is a Turkish city that lies nearly in the centre of the Eurasian country. Its known most popularly for its freakish natural wonders – the thousands of tall monoliths that offer a fantastic sight on a hot air balloon ride. If you’d like to know more about these standing rocks, join us on a tour of Goreme, a small town in Cappadocia with the highest density of the monoliths.

Somewhere along the pages of Turkish history, these tall monoliths earned the name of fair chimneys. From as early as BC 2000s, Assyrians from Northern Mesopotamia wanted to visit the Kings of the Anatolian peninisula for the purpose of trade. As they were approaching Cappadocia, from the outskirts itself, the land was nothing like what they had seen before, with a very dry climate and scarce vegetation. They could spot the towering monoliths from a distance, and though they could see no people dwelling in it, smoke seemed to be arising from it. The smoke from the fires lit by the cave dwellers, was believed to be the work of fairies, and hence the monoliths were referred as fairy chimneys.

Cappadocia lies in the Anatolia peninsula in Western Asia, which is surrounded on all three sides by mountain ranges and a high plateau on the fourth. Anatolia was believed to have volcanic mountains nearly 13 million years ago. Interestingly, instead of a singular conical shape, these were strata volcanos. As erosion occurred and the tectonic plates collided over one another, many of these volcanos erupted. The lava that spewed became volcanic ash but tremendously high temperatures led them to turn into tuff, a kind of basalt rock typical to the area. Even though it didn’t provide the kind of soil fertility that lava was known to result in, tuff was soon to be discovered as a softer, malleable material, excellent for construction.

Infrastructural development was at a bare minimum, to keep from destroying any of the standing pillars. This resulted in most families moving out of their cave homes to go to cities. Yet, they didn’t sell their land. Instead, most of the earth pillars have now been converted to cave hotels, inviting many a tourist to have a unique living experience.

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