The Ilhara Valley contrasts with the aridity of Cappadocia, thanks to the river that runs through it, which helps make it a green orchard. There are several Christian churches that have been excavated from the rock, and you can hike anywhere from just a few hundred meters, up to 15 kilometers along the river.
The Ihlara Valley is a must in the area of Cappadocia. It is about 45 kilometers southeast of Aksaray and can access it with both public buses as one of the tours. In the 1st way we will have much more time to discover this valley will not only small main part, but take longer to arrive and will have to spend the night in the zone. Everything depends on the time. Called Peristrema in ancient times, the valley was the favorite place of refuge of the Byzantine monks. Along the river we see churches from the Melendiz troglodytes era with. Any tour of the Valley will go through the course of this river, and to go to other places is dangerous because of landslides, especially when it is not the summer.
This trip was our "honeymoon". We traveled for15 days when we visited Turkey and visited three different areas: the city of Istanbul, which I thought was beautiful, the area called Cappadocia, ancient Anatolia, which groups several provinces with a common link and had a spectacular rocky landscape similar to the moon. The last area we visited was a city called Antalya, which is considered the Turkish Benidorm. I'm thinking about taking another trip to this country, only this time, it would be starting from Istanbul and head down the East Coast where we could visit cities like Troy and the natural
