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Ayazini Rock Church
A temple people come back to · İhsaniye, Turkey
Photo: Raicem · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.7★Rating
1,701Reviews
$Price level
Apr–Jun & Sep–OctBest time
The experience
A domed Byzantine church carved whole out of a tuff cliff on the edge of a living Phrygian Valley village, ringed by Roman chamber tombs, cave dwellings and fairy chimneys.
It's Cappadocia-style rock architecture with none of the balloons — a working village 33 km from Afyon that foreign itineraries simply skip.
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It's only worth the detour Apr–Jun & Sep–Oct. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
İhsaniye, Turkey · Phrygian Valley / Aegean interior. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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