Friday, May 18

Remaining in Cappadocia, we'll visit the natural citadel of Uçhisar.

A 45-minutes hike will take us on to Göreme where we'll walk through the open-air museum that was once a city of churches carved from caves, decorated by early Christians with frescoes depicting scenes from the Bible.

In the evening, there will be an optional opportunity (cost: roughly $25/person) to attend a performance of the famous Whirling Dervishes, mystical members of the Sufi sect of Islam, whose mosque (and tomb of the sect's founder, Rumi) we will visit next Thursday in Konya.

Overnight: Cappadocia/Ürgup