In Cappadocia – one of the most popular tourist destinations in Turkey after a week break again resumed flights in balloons.
Flights in balloons have not been organized since December 11 due to adverse weather conditions.
The first cylinders soared into the sky above the village of Gorome at dawn. For about an hour, balloons were soared over the valleys covered with fabulous “fireplaces” (“peribajalara” on a tour.).
Flights in the region are carried out with the permission of the Nevchekhirsk coordination bureaus of the Main Directorate of Civil Aviation of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey after daily weather assessments.
In general, flights in Cappadocia are organized on average 300 days a year, but in the winter season they can be canceled due to wind, fog or heavy rains.
Cappadocia has a unique natural landscape. Cappadocia is, first of all, the Valley of Peribajalara (“Magic fireplaces” or “fireplaces”) and the remains in the form of stone pillars of bizarre forms and outlines.
In the territory of Cappadocia, there were previously existing volcanoes, the largest of which – Hassan, Erjes, Medendiz and Gylludag – once threw ash and lava. Over time, the ashes turned into tuff, and the lava into the basalt, which covered the soft tuff rock with a thin layer. Climate change in the region launched the work of other natural forces: precipitation, wind and rivers carved their patterns from the tuf.
Conducting a tour, tourists get the opportunity to see the natural beauty of the region from a bird’s eye view of a bird’s flight: the valley of peribajalara and carved in the rocks of the house and monasteries.
Tourists, in particular, are very popular with the underground cities of Cappadocia, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Many of them are cut down in a soft tuf, and their premises, designed for various purposes, are communicated to each other long corridors, walking along which tourists make a “journey into the past”.
Upland of Cappadocia served as an ideal refuge for the Hittites, who created their first settlements here. In soft volcanic rocks, they carved halls, arches and similar to the labyrinths of the tunnels, building churches, houses and stables here. The underground cities dated 3000-3500 years, expanded in the Roman and Byzantine periods, attract the attention of local and foreign tourists.