I had instructions on how to find the hostel that I wanted to stay in and they seemed really simple and straight forward. The worst kind, right? 

I was arriving late again but this time since I knew I would make it to Antalya I had booked ahead. Back into a dorm room. Sigh.

Now the first part worked out ok. I found the local bus, the correct one at that paid my fare and even managed to get a seat which is a novelty. Traveling along I kept an eye on either side of the road until I saw the McDonalds then got off at the next stop. All good, instruction 2 complete.

It was the 3rd instruction that went slightly wrong.

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I didn’t spend long in Konya. Then again I really don’t think I needed to other than Mevlana Museum and the Whirling Dirvishes there wasn’t much else I wanted to see there

Unfortunately I found out when I got there at the Whirling Divishes, I hesitate to say the word show/performance/ceremony, only happens outside of the festival on a Saturday.  In the end I decided not to stay extra day just to see that. Of course you can pay to see a performance its only the free performance that is on Saturdays in Konya. 

I heard two very different takes on the Whirling Divishes.

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I decided on a day tour for my final day here in Goreme. Now I could have done these things independently however I think I got more information from doing the tour.

There is also the little issue that you can go to the underground city ‘by yourself’ all you want. You will not actually be by yourself since this place, Goreme and surounds is a massive tourist draw.

The price also wasn’t bad for the convenience anyway.

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Getting to Goreme proved to be easier than I thought even if it was a little later than what I thought as well. I had read all these warnings that there was a scam where your bus ticket would say ‘Cappadocia’ and they would dump you in Nevsehir instead of Goreme.

So of course it was late as I got off the bus in Kayseri, grabbed my bag and went to find the next bus. Since Goreme was only about an hour and a half away I figured I might as well continue on and get there.

I got my ticket, looked at it and of course it said Nevsehir. Not Goreme. I clarified the whole thing with him. Hard to do when you do not speak Turkish and he finally wrote Goreme on my ticket. He pointed at the map and showed that the bus had to go through Goreme to get to Nevsehir.

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It was just some dot on the map to break the journey really. I was flipping pages back and fourth trying to work out how to get to Goreme, so Cappadocia from my current location.

Everything including the locals pointed to Samsun first. Not to stay overnight of course. It’s just one of those places with a reasonably sized bus station with busses that go to a number of different locations.

Looking at the places I could get to from Samsun I finally flicked open on Amaysa and it’s Phontic tombs.

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