In fact, it’s two stages. Yesterday I stayed 3km from Sultanhani and today I visited the caravanserai and then went to Aksaray.
Yesterday the road was almost straight and flat, with a headwind on the last half of the journey. Today, a shorter route but a very unpleasant headwind. The surrounding landscape isn’t very pretty : if the crops weren’t systematically watered, they wouldn’t grow, and where there’s no watering, there’s nothing but arid steppe. Even the wheat is watered !
This morning we visited the caravanserail. These fortresses were built every day along the Silk Road. The one at Sultanhani is said to be one of the best preserved in Turkey.
Araksay has been quite badly destroyed by urbanisation, but the centre is pleasant with a small park and pretty mosques.
Araksay is the capital of Cappadocia, and tomorrow I’ll be in Göreme for a few days of sightseeing.