Kayseri Travel Guide

 hokomoko Says:  A 4000 meters "summit" mountain with a ski resort awaitng the skiers and climbers in the Kayseri city.Easily can be reach to the resort area by buses and minibuses departing from Kayseri city center.Very highly recommende for skiers. 

 traveloturc Says:  ERciyes is the name of the mountain very near to the city of Kayseri .Only 20 km to the city center which means that you can ski after 45 minutes of your landing to Kayseri airport. 

 travelmad478 Says:  You never know what you'll come across on a hike in Cappadocia. We stumbled into a cave church in the middle of nowhere, and found a very surprised donkey hanging out in there. I felt he needed to be immortalized on film. 

 traveloturc Says:  Iskender et lokantasý means ( meat restaurant) but the building is huge and they can even serve china food ,local food,all kind of kebabs and many local mezes. Iskender kebap 

 yakacik Says:   Pastýrma The Turkish horsemen of Central Asia used to preserve meat by placing slabs of it in pockets on the sides of their saddles, where it would be pressed by their legs as they rode. This pressed meat was the forerunner of today’s pastýrma, a term which literally... 

 hokomoko Says:  The new Erkilet airport is connected to the major Turkish cities and some major European cities and awailable to fly here everyday in various times.check the websites for awailable flights below listed airway companies:-atlas jet,-THY Turkish airlies,-Pegasus ailines,-Onur... 

 hokomoko Says:  By coach buses you can reach everywhere in Turkey from Kayseri.The Bus terminal is located at citycenter. 

 hokomoko Says:  Theres a train network around Kayseri.The main station connected to south (Adana) east west by TCDD trains. To Adana you can take the railbus also for 10$ you can go to south for example in 4 hours.Also you can take trains to Ankara and Istanbul from the main station. 

 traveloturc Says:  You can find many shops who sell "pastirma" and "manti". Kayseri is very famous with "Pastirma" ( some sort of smoked meat which is preserved with a very different recepie).The legend is that the Turcs when they moved from central asia toward west they use to carry this... 

 traveloturc Says:  Avanos is a well know place for ceramics,tiles,terracota gifts Galip is the most famous artist of all this area and he is the sole owner of "hair museum" in the world ..dont miss this place and you are not obliged to buy anything.you can watch him working and if he likes you... 

 traveloturc Says:  Very near to the city you can find a small village with the name of Germir.This is the birth place of the famous movie producer Elia Kazan .The most famous ottoman architect Mimar Sinan also is born very near of this small village .The houses are very interesting . 

 travelmad478 Says:  My friend and I did a lot of hiking around the area and also spent an afternoon horseback riding outside Urgup. During that day we had a great experience when we tied up the horses to go look inside a cave church that we found. While we were resting there, a goatherd came by... 

 yakacik Says:  Most people come to Kayseri as the departure point for a tour of Cappadocia. Once Cappadocia cut the broadest swathe through Anatolia - bordered by the Black Sea to the north and the Taurus mountains to the south, by the Euphrates in the east and the salt lakes in the west....