Aksaray- Güzelyurt
Notes to Travelers:
● You can eat delicious meals at the restaurants in Aksaray and relax in the cafes.
● Female visitors should have a scarf with them to use when visiting the shrine.
● If you want to see the images of the Aşıklı People, one of the first communities to settle down, and the skull where the first brain surgery was performed, you can visit the Aksaray Museum, where 1000-year-old mummies are also exhibited.
● When you reach the 20th km, you can enter Kızılkaya village and visit Aşıklı Höyük, one of the first villages where humanity settled down.
● You can eat delicious meals at the restaurants in the town of Güzelyurt and relax in the village cafe.
● Be sure to take enough water with you, as you cannot replenish water along the way.
● If you want a pleasant walk, you can visit Manastır Valley in Güzelyurt.
● You need to buy a ticket to visit the High Church at the entrance of Güzelyurt.
Connected Routes:
Güvercin Kayası - Büyük Deller - Aşıklı Höyük - Ihlara; Semmas Baba Tomb – Selime Sultan Tomb; Helvadere – Çanlı Church – Aşıklıhöyük – Selime; Selime Sultan Tomb – Bekar Sultan Tomb; Somuncu Baba Tomb – Semmas Baba Tomb; Alayhan – Tepesi Delik inn – Agzikarahan; Acemhöyük – Darıhöyük – Aksaray; Aksaray - Agzikarahan - Aksaray; Aksaray - Saratlı - Pigeon Rock (Çatalsu Village); Tapduk Emre Tomb – Somuncu Baba Tomb