cappadocia - The Mad Traveler

A full moon on the rise and snow-capped Mount Erciyes (Central Anatolia’s highest peak) beyond, but center stage here is

Hotel Review: Castle Inn Cappadocia in Ortahisar

If you come to Cappadocia looking to get away from it all, you might want to consider a location other

I’m certainly not the first to say Cappadocia blew my mind. I’ve been there twice, the first time in 1998,

I arrived at night so the landscape only revealed itself in the small glowing pockets of intermittent streetlights and the

A bus full of young Buddhist nuns in Yangon, Myanmar, one of my first stops for the year for an

After nearly 11 hours on a bus from Nevşehir in Cappadocia, we arrived in Şanlıurfa just before midnight. We took

I’ve been chipping away at seeing every bit of Turkey I can, ever since I lived here back in 1997-1998.

A hearty thank you to Traveling Ted for roping me into this A to Z of Travel chain blog. I’ll

“You can cover a great deal of country in books.” — Andrew Lang I firmly believe one can and should