Our exploration of Cappadocia is capped off at Paşabağı. An open-air museum, it’s renowned for its fairy chimneys, the very rock formations those famous hot-air balloons float over.

A hot air balloon crashed in central Turkey on Sunday, leaving its pilot dead and 19 Indonesian tourists injured, a local official said. In a statement, the governor’s office said the balloon ...

Turkey's Cappadocia region has one of the most fascinating landscapes. Taking a hot air balloon ride to see it from above whilst watching the sun rise was the ultimate hot air balloon experience.

I wasn’t alone in my craving for a hot air balloon ride over Cappadocia. In 2024, a record-setting 933,000 people visited the region for just that reason.

ANKARA — Two Spanish tourists were killed and three were injured on Tuesday when the hot air balloon they were traveling in made a hard landing in Turkey’s Cappadocia, the local governor’s ...

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In this Aug. 26, 2015, photo, a cafe and market appear at the foot of abandoned cave homes in the Cavusin village in the Cappadocia region of Turkey. It is no longer inhabited for safety reasons.

The actress, who plays the former Indian cricket captain’s second wife, Sangeeta Bijlani, in the film, turned globetrotter and environmentalist while on a week-long work assignment in Turkey.