History and Culture of Aksaray
Aksaray is easy to underestimate and hard to forget.

Aksaray is easy to underestimate and hard to forget.

Aksaray makes a surprisingly good hub for exploring western Cappadocia, because the region’s great sights fan out from it in every direction.

Aksaray is not a food city in the showy sense, and that is exactly what makes eating here so good.

Aksaray rarely makes the first draft of most Turkey itineraries, and that is precisely why it rewards the traveler who includes it.

Aksaray is the western edge of Cappadocia, a province of volcanic valleys, rock-cut churches, and Silk Road monuments that most travelers rush past on the road between Ankara and the tourist centers.

Aksaray is the quiet western door to Cappadocia, a Central Anatolian city that most travelers pass on their way to somewhere else and many wish they had stopped in.
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