Welcome to Attraction of the Day!

CAUTION: Do not continue reading unless you are prepared for incurable wanderlust.

This is a series about the cities, towns and attractions that grabbed me by the senses and forced me to add them to my ever-growing bucket list. I am SO excited to share these places with you because I know you are going to fall in love with them too.

I thought it was only fitting that I started the series in a exotic location like Cappadocia. Turkey has always been fascinating to me, as someone who has surrendered to a love affair with the ocean. Surrounded by water, Turkey has hundreds of miles of coastline along the Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black Seas. However, if you travel inland to the Anatolian plains, you will stumble across the arid region of Cappadocia. Here is where you will find the fairy chimneys, which is a much sweeter name for them than I would have come up with, given their phallic resemblance. Thousands of years of erosion have created these cone shaped mounds in the volcanic soil. Historically, people have carved into them to create dwellings and you can still explore them today. A hotel that is carved into the mounds is actually quite luxurious and has become a bit of a tourist attraction.

Just know that there are many small towns and villages that make upCappadocia. The largest and most developed of these is Ürgüp. I am excited to explore the more off the beaten path towns, even though some like the Ihlara Valley, can only be visited easily through tours. I am not a huge fan of organized tours. They do have their place though, especially in countries where you don’t speak the language or in order to get to more remote regions of a country. If you are interested in people sleeping underground like I am, make sure you make a trip to the underground city of Ozkonak.