Walking is the oldest way to experience Cappadocia and still the most intimate. From inside a vehicle — whether bus, jeep or ATV — you see the landscape at a distance, separated by metal and glass and engine noise. <div><br></div><div>Tour is min for 4 people max for 10 people.<br><div><br><div> Pigeon Valley punctuated with hundreds of carved pigeon houses — small niches cut into the rock face, originally built to collect pigeon droppings used as fertilizer for the region's vineyards and orchards. </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 11.5pt;"="">Love Valley, named for
its tall, pillar-shaped fairy chimneys that rise from the valley floor like
columns of a roofless cathedral. These formations are among the tallest in the
Cappadocia region individual pillars reaching 30 to 40 meters.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 11.5pt;"=""><br></span></div><div>Trail ends with a great view of the rediash to pinky colors of the Rose and Red valley..</div><div><br></div><div>The hike returns before midday or early afternoon, leaving the rest of the day free for other activities.</div><div><br></div><div>Cappadocia's valleys were formed by volcanic eruptions and shaped by millions of years of wind and water erosion. They are still changing — slowly, imperceptibly to the human eye, but continuously.</div><div><br></div><div> Walking through them puts you in direct contact with a geological process that predates human civilization by an almost incomprehensible margin. The fairy chimneys you pass are not permanent structures. </div><div><br></div><div>They are moments frozen in a process. Some will collapse in the coming decades; new ones are being revealed as the tuff erodes. The hike lets you see that process at ground level, at walking pace, in the quiet company of a guide who has watched these valleys change over a lifetime.</div></div></div>