Selime Monastery

A visit to the Ihlara Valley is not complete until you have visited this wonderful and amazing place called the Selime Monastery. This place is everything except a typical Christian monastery. It looks more like a small town or a small palace excavated in the rock, with impossible places and ramps, splendid views, and dark corners where light only comes through through small windows. This place is, in my opinion, one of the most amazing in Capadoccia, not only because of its almost legendary structure, but because it offers almost endless possibilities of getting lost. You can find many corners where you can contemplate the weirdest way possible that light comes through different shapes, the different landscapes, or the tranquility that is now alien to our world.

The views from the magical monastery Selime are unrivalled. Almost every rock formations of Cappadocia can be seen from the top of this small city-palace carved into the rock. Do not miss the village of adobe houses viewed from above, the mushroom-shaped and "buds" of whipped cream shaped hills, ochre see the contrast of landscape- so hard, so aggressive- with the clear blue the sky. The views of the Monastery of Selime deserve calm, and to take your time to sit and contemplate. In the monastery of Selime there are so many places in which you cant hide to enjoy this calm place in a relatively easy