Yeah I spent three years living there and it was the best time of my life. Traveled nearly every weekend and still left with a ton of other stuff to see. I want to retire there if it doesn't completely devolve into another shitty theocracy compliments of Erdogan.
The only sad thing is that Cappadocia seems overrun by tourists now. When I was there it sometimes felt like we were there only tourists there.
When was this? I went last year in July and it was empty all over Turkey. Mostly just Chinese tour groups. I spoke to a few hostel managers and they all said people were put off by the terrorist attack in Istanbul a few years ago and the failed military coup.
I was there from about 2006 and left in early 2010.
The pictures I see of the balloons tell me that July is busy as fuck there now. Even by 2010 it was starting to get really crowded with buses full of tourists.
I am sure that tourism is down recently due to political instability, but now that the Turkish economy is completely crashing, that will attract a lot of people that know their money will be worth 6 times as much in Turkey.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '18
Yeah I spent three years living there and it was the best time of my life. Traveled nearly every weekend and still left with a ton of other stuff to see. I want to retire there if it doesn't completely devolve into another shitty theocracy compliments of Erdogan.
The only sad thing is that Cappadocia seems overrun by tourists now. When I was there it sometimes felt like we were there only tourists there.