Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before 2023, I had yet to travel anywhere in eastern Europe, so I changed that fact by visiting Turkey for a week. Over the years ...

Did you know that up to 20,000 people lived underground in Cappadocia for safety? This area, located in central Turkey, is full of marvels. It’s famous for its unusual rock formations, shaped like ...

A rich palette of shimmering caramel swirls, ochers, creams and pinks unfolds across the landscape like an enormous handwoven carpet. Stands of poplars line paths carved by ancient lava flows from ...

Cappadocia is one of the most breathtaking and unique places on Earth. With its fairy chimneys, hot air balloon sunrises, ancient cave dwellings, and vast underground cities, it feels like a living ...

The best way to see the fairy chimneys and rock houses is not from a balloon in the sky but with feet on the ground. Also known as the Zelve open-air museum, the Zelve valley offers hikers the ...

It’s a landscape that looks almost alien. Soft tufa rock – spewed from volcanoes millennia ago to create a series of ethereal “fairy chimneys” that have been shaped and sculpted by nature. This is ...

Cappadocia is in central Anatolia, the Asian portion of Turkey. Its history dates back thousands of years to the Hittites and before. It enjoyed a brief period of independence about 2,000 years ago.

In a spectacular landscape, entirely sculpted by erosion, the Göreme valley and its surroundings contain rock-hewn sanctuaries that provide unique evidence of Byzantine art in the post-Iconoclastic ...

Erosion shaped the incredible landscape of Turkey's Göreme valley, but thousands of years ago humans took a cue from Mother Nature and began carving an incredible chamber and tunnel complex into the ...