Purposeful Traveller: Travel - Goreme, A Unique Landscape

Sunday 15 June 2014

Travel - Goreme, A Unique Landscape

From Istanbul, it was a 10 hours journey to Goreme (which is in Cappadocia). Trust me, I was pretty reluctant to take the bus because can you imagine I don’t even do such long bus journeys from Singapore to Malaysia (e.g. to Penang) anymore but here I am taking such long hours bus ride in Turkey. >.<

The bus ain’t those super VIP with just 27 seats like those we always take for long journeys. It is a 46 seater bus. We went with Metro Turizm for the bus ride because they have a pick up point near Taksim Square. The cost of the ticket is 60 TL (SGD 36).

The bus do have mini-TV to every seat BUT all channels were in Turkish. -_- The seat was comfortable, but for a 10 hours ride it can still be quite exhausting at the end of the journey. They do stop a few times (3 maybe?) during the journey and each time was for about 30 mintues or so. What impressed me was they served drinks (coffee, tea, juices or water) at the beginning of the journey and each time after the stop over.

ANYWAY! After the tiring journey, we reached Neveshire where we have to change to a smaller bus for the transfer to Goreme. Goreme was a total change of landscape from Istanbul, all those rock formations and valleys were simply gorgeous!! I love it!

Arriving at our accomodation - Taskonak hotel. I totally love the dining area which overlooked the entire place. Simply breathtaking!

The room is alil small but other than that everything was great! The host was very hospitable and helped us to arrange the tours and bus tickets. We paid cash and was given a 10 euros discount, we paid 98 euros for 2 nights (16 euro/pax/night) quite a good deal!

We stayed 3 nights in Goreme and were able to take sometime to enjoy this beautiful place. As we reached on day 1 morning, we did a brief walk around Goreme town and chanced upon OZ Cappadocia. We booked a ATV Sunset Tour for 70TL (SGD 42) and it was lovely!