The most anticipated part of your trip to Turkey is Kapadokya's hot air balloon.

Determine the start of the trip, a week in advance on the Internet to see the booking price of hot air balloons, the price difference is very large from 250 euros -400 Euros, when I felt that more than two thousand is too expensive, it has not been set. Then with the exception of Royal and Butterfly's hot air balloons with up to 16 people (but I emailed to ask if they were fully booked), the other brands are almost all large hot air balloons with 20-28 people, no difference.

On the day we arrived in Kappa, we arrived in the morning and had a stroll around the town of Greme in Kappa.

Cappadocia has several towns, but must live to Greme, hot air balloons are flying in Greme, Greme accommodation is generally on the high side, recommend our hotel, Emre Stone Building hotel, its cost performance is relatively high, you can bargain with the boss, also package breakfast, if you want to experience the cave hotel that is better, but we are on a budget, It is a cost-effective hotel. booking is not available in Turkey, so it is not very easy to find accommodation.

Turkish little brother and we said 100 euros a person, the little brother is very good, super shy, said his father is a hot air balloon, his family originally has a hot air balloon company, two travel agencies, and then his father took the hot air balloon to Dubai, otherwise you can choose his own hot air balloon hahaha.

We were only in Kappa for two days and the balloons all took off!

Be sure to go to the balloon viewing spot. Sunset/Sunrise/Balloons Highest View.. Because its viewing point is very large, although there are many people, but you can certainly find your own position, it is everywhere you can see the hot air balloon, unlike some places where it can only see scattered, or a direction of the hot air balloon, the hot air balloon viewing point is you can see the hot air balloon flying all over the sky. Almost every hot air balloon taking off in town can be seen, so be sure to go there.

There is no need to book in advance, as the prices change daily, and you can definitely book when you arrive. If you take off the day before, the next day the price will be lower, the day before or a few days before the flight, the price will go up. But April 2024 and the following months belong to the peak season, we flew on April 6 170 euros, the same balloon family living in the UK Indian family 170 euros. The April 5 cancellation didn't fly.

In fact, there is no so-called first flight, second flight, all Goreme hot air balloons are prepared at about the same time, take off, and land. The exact time of takeoff depends on many factors: the preparation of the balloon, the punctuality of all passengers in the same shuttle, the speed at which all passengers in the same balloon enter the balloon, and so on. It feels like these things happen randomly, and almost no one can accurately predict them in advance.

Best to go to the four corners of the balloon.

But if it is only 1-3 people, it is estimated that the staff will not let them go, they want to put 4-5 people in, you can agree to go with the people next to you in advance, or tell the pilot that you want to buy photos, let them help arrange. Taking pictures in the other baskets is not particularly convenient, there is no problem in taking pictures of the outside scenery, because the hot air balloon is always rotating 360 degrees, but there are poles or people in other baskets blocking the lens.

There should be two pilots for everyone's hot air balloon, one is responsible for the control, and the other is to assist ➕ to take photos. I didn't want to pay for photos and videos, for one thing, I felt there was no need to waste money buying those things that cheat tourists, and the photos taken by my mobile phone were just fine. Second, in the morning, my whole face was swollen, makeup did not wear, my son, husband also do not like to take photos, so there has been no active look at the camera to take photos, but later I decided to buy, feel to leave a memorial or quite good, maybe this life is only such a chance!
If you decide to buy images, you can tell the pilot in advance, ask them to arrange to go to the basket in the four corners, and ask them to deliberately take more photos of you.

If you're looking for a local hostel, which one does it leave from? Does it include hotel transfer? The most popular place for hot air balloons is Goreme Valley, İ heard that there are not many hot air balloons in other places, So the price is much cheaper, but the local hostel staff near our hotel said that there are also twenty or thirty in So Goanli Valley, Ihlara Valley and Tien lham.

My first reaction is that if the price difference is so much (Goreme 540 euros 3 people, 280 euros 3 people in other places), it is not good to fly in the far place where there are fewer balloons, feel the high altitude, look at the line, and then go to the place where there are more balloons to chase hot air balloon photos?

It is recommended to start at five o 'clock at the latest, because the time of every day it is not necessarily, with the sunrise time and the wind direction is related, if you want to see, catch up early do not catch up late, so as not to miss it is very regrettable, generally speaking, the first sunrise, after sunrise, the hot air balloon will take off. There will be hot air balloons in different directions.

Wearing a dress with recommended saturation will make the photo shoot very difficult.

🎈 Two ways to see hot air balloons in two days

DAY1: Classic car

The first day of the choice to sit in the classic car is in the small red book rent do not know the price is not the most appropriate, spent about ¥800, but I feel the price should be similar! I booked the pink way in advance. The little guy who took us there was so nice that we could call him for a classic car!

DAY2: Hot air balloon ride 🎈

We asked the hotel to help us book, there are expensive and cheap options we choose is the low price of 150 euros or so a person. In the hot air balloon to see the scenery, tears are spinning good beauty, but timid, I am not afraid of heights are afraid of hahaha, the pilot of the hot air balloon is also particularly funny feeling that the Turkish people are really very warm and kind ~

Both projects have to get up at about 5:00 in the morning, ah, but I think it is worth it, if you want to take a good picture of the classic car, if you want to experience it must choose a hot air balloon ~ different feeling experience down feel both are very necessary!

Bottom line: Be sure to visit this location, Sunset/Sunrise/Balloons Highest View... And you can see the sunset, the sunset is beautiful there, but it is the opposite direction, the sunset is on the side of the flag with the bench table, the sunrise is the opposite direction, the hot air balloon will decide the course according to the wind direction, but the viewing point can be seen. We went there three times and saw different scenery. There is an entrance fee for this point, and now it is 10 lira and it is also very cheap and well worth it.

Finally, I wish you all a wonderful experience!