Hot Air Balloons in Cappadocia, Turkey

SUMMARY

Cappadocia has become a favourite site for tourists in hot-air balloons who can slowly drift above the cone-shaped rock formations and then float up over rippled ravines for breathtaking views over the region.

By APAug 8, 2018 1:28:55 PM IST (Updated)

Cappadocia has become a favourite site for tourists in hot-air balloons who can slowly drift above the cone-shaped rock formations and then float up over rippled ravines for breathtaking views over the region. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Tourists take photographs as hot air balloons are prepared before rising in the sky at sunrise in Cappadocia, central Turkey, early Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Hot air balloons, carrying tourists, rise into the sky at sunrise in Cappadocia, central Turkey, early Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

A hot air balloon, carrying tourists, rises into the sky above the "fairy chimneys" of stone that are so soft that Byzantine Greeks carved subterranean cities out of them, in Cappadocia, central Turkey, early Tuesday, Aug.7, 2018. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Hot air balloons, carrying tourists, rise into the sky above the "fairy chimneys". (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

A hot air balloon, carrying tourists, rises into the sky at sunrise in Cappadocia, central Turkey, early Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)