In 2018 I scanned the many slides I had from my earliest visits, in the 1990's, to Cappadocia. As a matter of fact, I first stayed in Nevşehir, thinking it was central (it isn’t), and would walk for some miles, see amazing valleys, and be satisfied. Later Ürgüp became my preferred starting point, and I would walk from there to the several sites surrounding the central hill (Ak Tepe) between Göreme, Avanos, Zelve and such. And walk back. And walk off the beaten tracks. As a result I have an amazingly large collection of pictures that I could not put in my more dedicated (to towns, to a particular valley) galleries. I present them here. Of some I remember precisely where I took it, of some I don’t have a clue.

One thing: I usually do not cut off tops of spires, be they of churches or of rocks. But my scanner did. So some pictures miss just that final part of a rock, or the last ten meters of the Uchisar rock. Sorry.