This evening after dinner we all decided to walk up to Uchisar Castle, just a short distance from our hotel. When we reached the top we were rewarded with stunning views and gale force winds that almost blew us from the precipice. Some of these unplanned travel moments are the definition of serendipity . …
In 1963, a man knocked down a wall in his basement and discovered a massive underground city from the 8th century BC. At least that’s the story we were told when we decided to test our claustrophobic threshold and venture into Cappadocia’s underbelly to explore two of these gargantuan subterranean cities. Our battle plan was …
Back on the road again, with the car heater on full blast to thaw us from our adventurous and frosty stay near Hattusa, we drove 3 hours south to the region of Türkiye known as Cappadocia until a vast sweeping valley came into view, clustered with millions of lanky asparagus-shaped volcanic rock formations (that’s the G-rated …
We headed back to the Istanbul airport—but this time to rent a car. Our first stop was a seven hour drive south towards the capital Ankara and then eastward into Boğazkale where the ruins of the ancient Hittite city of Hattusa once stood. There among the rubble was the Lion gate that we …
Who needs Rick Steves when we’ve got our niece Danielle? Before heading back to the boat, we started making plans for our road trip into the heart of Türkiye. Normally this is a fastidious affair of tedious googling and planning. But just as we were doing our research my niece Danielle and her family …
