Trail Riding Cappadocia (8 Days) Madelaine Spesyal

Arrival at Kayseri/Nevsehir Airport and Transfer to Your Hotel in Guzelyurt.

High Church - Monastery Valley – Sivrihisar Path – Red Church

Departure from the hotel after breakfast. Meet the horses at the equestrian center and take a short warm-up to the High Church

located on a Hill that has a wonderful view point on Old Karballa and the Mount Hassan. We will continue by the Monastery valley

to clim up to Sivrihisar village. In a wild nature among the volcanic ground, we will reach in nowhere the Red Church (5 hours).

Overnight at Camping at Red Church. B,L,D.

Tchardak Village – Kitreli – Yenipinar – Eghrikuyu Camp

The Second Day of Riding, we will follow the Melendiz Mountain. We will pass from Kitreli, a historical Greek Village called Ilemi

at the corner of Melendiz. Then going through Yenipinar where the shepherds used to bring their sheep to water in that area. Then

finally we will reach our camp in Eghrikuyu on the corner of Mt hassan (3268m). (5 hours). Overnight at Camping. B,L,D.

The plateau of Sarnich - Mokyssos – Ihlara

We leave Mt Hassan and go in a very authentique direction. We'll pass from the water cisterns in Sarnich and folow with Mokyssos

(or Helvadere today) which was a Roman Military Basement from the 6th centuary to control the passage from Anatolia to

Jerusalema. We will take our picnic in here and continue to Ihlara. Actually this canion is 14km long and lived by the christian

community to hide from persecution very long time ago. We will camp on the river side. (5 hours). Overnight at Camping in Ihlara.

Note: The 1st part of Ihlara is not accesible with the horses. B,L,D.

Ihlara 2nd part – Selime Monastery – Uzunkaya (Sikinos) – Tcheltek

We will enter in Ihlara Canion, an amazing gorge in a depth of 150/200 m partially, and ride through it following the Melendiz River.

We arrive at Selime Monastery. This is probably the biggest monastic village all around Cappadocia. We will have a break here to

visit it and continue our ride to Uzunkaya and Tcheltek. Overnight in Camping at Tcheltek. (5 hours) B.L.D

Kizilkaya – Ashiklihoyukh – Alanyurt Castle – Borasan

We continue our ride in this historical trail. Ashiklihoyuk is the 1st in the world to be a mass residential area dating from 10.000 years

ago. Then after, we will continue by Alanyurt, which has a caracteristic to be a rock carved castle. We will finish in Borasan where

we will set our camp. (5 hours) B.L.D

Akyamach – Upper Crater Lake – Sivrihisar – Guzelyurt

(5.5 hours). B,L,D.

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