It’s a landscape that looks almost alien. Soft tufa rock – spewed from volcanoes millennia ago to create a series of ethereal “fairy chimneys” that have been shaped and sculpted by nature. This is ...

The best way to see the fairy chimneys and rock houses is not from a balloon in the sky but with feet on the ground. Also known as the Zelve open-air museum, the Zelve valley offers hikers the ...

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 ...

Where are you going this year? As journeys for a yearly sojourn start taking shape, consider Asia Minor. The climate mirrors our own Southern California weather, with mild winters and hotter summers, ...

The region of Cappadocia is vast, and is made up of several small towns and villages, as well as the dramatic landscapes of Goreme National Park. Most people are not aware of the size of Cappadocia ...

The sun had yet to rise when we began our ascent over the stony landscape of Turkey’s Cappadocia region, where so-called fairy chimneys and craggy geologic formations make you wonder if you’re in a ...

If Cappadocia, Turkey had an official postcard, it’d likely be the rainbow of hot air balloons floating above its conical “fairy chimney” rock formations at sunrise when the sky is tinted pink. Most ...