Turkish Delight

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Cycle Turkey, a unique adventure cycling holiday in Cappadocia

This is an amazing mountain biking holiday in Turkey and full of eastern promise. The central Turkish region of Cappadocia is one of the world's most outlandish and historic adventure travel destinations, with an extraordinary lunar landscape of amazing rock formations, a captivating history and a very exotic feel. Cappadocia is the perfect location for a mountain biking holiday, with a great mix of backroad, dirtroad and off-road trails not dissimilar to those found in the mountain biker's 'Mecca' of Moab in the USA. We have more than 15 years experience of running cycling holidays in this part of Turkey and the result is an itinerary that provides an exhilarating cycling holiday for most riders. Our cycling journey begins and ends in the wonderfully authentic village of Urgup and takes us on a jaw-dropping biking adventure as we cycle through a unique kingdom of towering fairy-tale chimneys, yawning sandstone valleys and rock-hewn dwellings. Each day we visit different parts of the Cappodocia region, staying in comfortable family run hotels in Urgup and in Uchisar and enjoying the excellent (and fully included) local cuisine. Amongst the must-see sights are Ortahisar Castle, 'Love Valley', the troglodyte settlement of Uchisar, the underground city of Derinkuyu, the beautiful Ihlara Valley, the carved frescoes at the Open Air Museum of Goreme, the unspoiled farming villages of the Soganli region and the colourful produce market at Urgup. This is a biking paradise, good for relative beginners and also a chilled out holiday destination for the more experienced mountain biker.