MOUNTAINEERING-TREKKING:
In Hasan Dağ, you may have plenty of different routes leading to summit at 3.200 m. In nice weather conditions, teams can easily reach to the top of the mountain in 4-5 hours, starting from our Hotel, enjoying the mountaineering soul at each step. When you are at top, Hasan Dağ will give you a fantastic panaroma from north Salt Lake to south Borkar-Touros chain, also Erciyes and Aladağlar.
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SKIING:
There is a 70 m. long lift for the beginners in the back yard of the Hotel. Rental of skiers are possible. In the near future, 1200 person/hour lift will be constructed.
In winter and early spring, you may also taste and practice skiing tours in Hasan Dağ, starting with skins coated to the skiers at te Hotel.
PARA GLIDING:
Hasan Dağ is absolutely a paradise for paragliding lovers, since it offers nice slops at 2.000 m. in our Hotel Area for an easy take-off. Once you are airborn, you may enjoy every second of para gliding, easily catching warm air masses enabling you lifting off higher and higher. So you may realize a flight over world famous Ihlara Canyon, travelling 40-50 km. and landing smoothly. Vehichle and accompany team is available to return you back to Hotel for the next flight.
IHLARA VALLEY:
Ihlara Valley, near Mount Hasan (one of the three volcanoes of Cappadocia) is a canyon with a depth of approximately 100m and was formed by the Melendiz River thousands of years ago. It begins at Ihlara village and ends at the village of Selime after making 26 bends along 14 kilometers.
It is believed that the valley housed more than four thousand dwellings and a hundred churches. It is estimated that around eighty thousand people once lived here.
It is very pleasant to walk through the Ihlara valley by the vineyards, poplars and pistachio trees to the soothing sound if the rushing water and surrounded by a rich wildlife of lizards, frogs, butterflies, birds and sometimes eagles and other mammals like lambs and sheep.
In the middle of the Ihlara valley in Belisırma village there are good restaurants to be found.
The churches in the Valley can be divided into two groups: the Ihlara group, including the Ağaçaltı, Pürenli Seki, Kokar, Eğritaş and Yılanlı churches that reflect Oriental influences, and the Belisırma group, comprising Sümbüllü Church and others with Byzantine characteristics.
The churches of the Ihlara group display scenes dissimilar to the scenes depicted in other Cappadocian churches. In fact, they are reminiscent of the early churches of Syria and the Coptic churches of Egypt. The texts in Ihlara group churches are unusually long. In this group special emphasis was laid upon Satan, and women as the source of evil.
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