• Republic of Turkey Home Page has good general information including a calendar of holidays and cultural events. There is also a page of common expressions and helpful phrases in Turkish.
• A Time Travel into History offers a synopsis of Turkey’s history.
• Turkey A Gateway to Paradise has helpful tourist information and a very good Special Interest section that highlights outdoor and culinary interests.
• Discover Turkey is an excellent site about travel and tourism with an extensive list of practicalities for the traveler: destinations, planning your trip, information sources, health issues and useful addresses.
• Turkey: U.S. State Department Travel Warnings
• Do’s and Don’ts in Turkey: British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Turkish Embassies and Consulates Abroad
• Middle East: CDC health information

Fun

• Atlas is a Turkish website with some exquisite photographs.
• Rick Steves' Turkey page has helpful hints for traveling in Turkey. Lodging recommendations for Cappadocia and other cities are provided. There is also an interesting selection of Turkey-related personal travelogues.
• Turkey: A Travel Guide by Pierre Flener provides a comprehensive list of online and printed resources about Turkey. His Diary of a Foreigner Living in Turkey describes interesting and humorous trips to the Kackar and Toros Mountains, Cappadocia and other places.
• Rec.Travel Library has numerous links to travel information and travelogues about Turkey.
• Images of Turkey has a beautiful and extensive collection of photographs. Some of the categories include people, landscapes, wildlife, ancient sites, village life and architecture.
• Mountaineering in Turkey has photographs and descriptions of Turkey’s principal mountains.
• Ayse and Jan's Turkey features lovely photos of their travels all over Turkey.
• The Plateaus in Turkey describes the summer pastures where nomadic and semi-nomadic people have taken their animals for thousands of years. Tourist information offices are also noted.
• National Parks, Wildlife and Wetlands of Turkey summarizes the parks and conservation areas of the country.

• Kapadokya is an informative site about the rock towns and cave towns of Central Anatolia where early Christians sought refuge from their persecutors.
• The Cave Churches of Cappadocia has descriptive text with some lovely photographs.
• Cappadocian Invisibility is part of an extensive travel journal, Around the World with Wes and Masami.
• Aegee Kayseri has photos and descriptions of Kayseri, Erciyes Ski Center and Cappadocia.

• Frazer Pearce's Coruh details a kayaking expedition on the Coruh River.
• Kackar Mountains has excellent photos and information for visitors.
• Some lovely photos of Eastern Turkey including the Kackar Mountains by Cagan Sekercioglu.
• Kackar juli 2000: Trip report and photos by a Dutch hiking group.

• Lycian History has some of the best photographs and articles about this region.
• The Lycian Way is a 500km waymarked footpath around the coast of Lycia from Fethiye to Antalya.
• Hiking Babadag has excellent trail information for a mountain that is located to the southeast of Fethiye.

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