Travel photos and journals from across Asia [1997-2025]
The main attraction in Cappadocia is the sunrise hot air balloon flights, and we were up at 05.30 ready for ours. After a lot of faffing around in a minivan doing pickups from various cave hotels, we were driven out into the boonies where the balloons were being filled in the pre-dawn light. A quick…
Day 5 Ankara to Cappadocia Another driving day was ahead, and leaving the city on Saturday morning after another fantastic breakfast was relatively easy. An hour and a half south was Tuz Golu, a massive 1,650 square kilometer endorheic salt lake in central Türkiye and a popular stop for bus tours. The lake went on…
Da had her heart set on the sunset hot air balloon trip which was not cheap at $90 per person. I didn’t have much of a choice so we booked it and would be picked up later that afternoon. We were driven to a field on the outskirts of town where a Chinese company ran…