Taste of Cappadocia (60 minutes) [Currently Not Available]
The trip includes a balloon ride, other features of the national park, and the journey to Konya. Includes Aşıklı Höyük, a neolithic settlement abandoned 9000 years ago; and Sultanhanı, a Selçuk caravansaray.
Konya to the Coast (40 minutes)
From the Mevlana Rumi tomb in Konya, we visit the Turkish Lake District, and go on to the south-west coast at Akyaka.
'Balloon Ready'
Balloon landing brought out the whole school to watch
Collapsed monastery. Zelve Open Air Museum
Zelve Minaret. This characteristic Selçuk style combines the minaret with the mimbar
Monastery of Nuns. Göreme Open Air Museum
Attaman Geraniums, Göreme
Apple harvest. Göreme
'Wide Sky'. Very wide angle view
Fresco, Entry to Jerusalem. Çavuşin
Cave hotel garden with artefacts
'Ürgüp Poppy'
Sultanhan. Selcuk caravansaray on the Konya plain
Garden of the Mevlana Museum, Konya.
Tomb of Mevlana Rumi, poet, Konya
Lake at Eğirdir. Turkish lake district
Eğirdir boat. 'Yıldırım' = thunderbolt, but the weather was fine
Ayşe and her pension, Yeşilada, Eğirdir
Eğirdir grass
Roadside refreshment stop. Tea available
Upper Xanthos river (Esencayi). The river here is used for hydropower and fish farming