Goreme

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cappadocia, Without the Rookie Mistakes The first balloon went up while we were still fumbling with the coffee. By the time we got to the terrace, the sky over Göreme was already dotted with a hundred more, and ours — the one we’d left “for the second morning, when we’re less tired” — wasn’t among them. The wind picked up the next day and the flight cancelled. We left without ever leaving the ground. Lesson learned the expensive way: in Cappadocia, you book the sunrise balloon for the first possible morning and pray, because weather, not your schedule, decides when it flies. ...