CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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125 km from Ürgüp to Ürgüp, about 2 h 12 of riding. It goes by way of Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of, Subterranean city of Kaymakli and back through Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 24 km this is Turkey Cappadocia Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Cappadocia is a land that was made by volcanoes and then carved by people. Millions of years ago, the eruptions of Mount Erciyes, which still stands at 3,917 metres, and other volcanoes covered the high plateau of central Anatolia with deep layers of ash, which hardened into a soft rock called tuff. Wind and water then eroded the tuff into valleys of pinnacles, cones and ridges, the fairy chimneys, and people found that the rock was easy to dig. Ever since, they have been carving houses, churches, stables and storerooms into it.
Read the complete Karain site write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Karain site is where the day begins. Next is Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of.
Millions of years ago, two volcanoes, Erciyes and Hasan, covered central Turkey with ash, and the ash hardened into a soft, pale rock called tuff. Then rain and frost and wind went to work for a very long time. They carved the tuff into a landscape of cones, spires, mushrooms and canyons, the fairy chimneys of Cappadocia, in soft shades of cream, pink and apricot. About a thousand metres above sea level, around Goreme, the whole valley seems to have been sculpted by a mad pastry chef.
Read the complete Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Subterranean city of Kaymakli.
Kaymakli sits in the soft volcanic country of Cappadocia, about eleven kilometres from Derinkuyu and eighteen from Nevşehir, and from the road you would never guess what is under your wheels. The village is ordinary: flat-roofed houses, tractors, a few carpet shops. The wonder is below, a city dug downward into tuff, the pale rock that ash from ancient volcanoes pressed into something a person can cut with a hand tool and that hardens with air.
Read the complete Subterranean city of Kaymakli write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Subterranean city of Kaymakli. Next is back through Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of, late in the day. Next is Karain site.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Karain site write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Karain site. That is the ride.
Karain site → Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of → Subterranean city of Kaymakli is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Subterranean city of Kaymakli → back through Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of → Karain site is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.