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1. Food · Melikgazi

   Buy pastırma where the dry air makes it

   Beef pressed, coated in a paste of fenugreek, garlic and paprika, then cured in the dry air off Erciyes — Kayseri is the city the whole country buys it from. Have a slab cut for you — and photograph it.

2. Food · Melikgazi

   Eat Kayseri mantı (40 dumplings to a spoon)

   Try the traditional dumplings the size of raisins with the yogurt-butter-pepper trio — and photograph it.

3. History · Melikgazi

   Tour Mimar Sinan's village and underground city in Ağırnas

   See the rock-carved underground settlement and Sinan's house in the village where the great architect was born — and photograph it.

4. Nature · Yahyalı

   See the Kapuzbaşı Waterfalls

   See 7 breathtaking waterfalls side by side at the foot of the Aladağlar — hard to reach but worth it — and photograph it.

5. Nature · Yahyalı

   Birdwatching at Sultansazlığı

   Sultan Marshes is no uniform lake: freshwater reedbeds, saline lakes and salt steppe share the Develi plain. These different habitats support different birds. Ask staff for a current observation point, watch from a distance and take a photograph. Note whether your bird was among reeds or on open water.

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6. Nature · Develi

   Ski at the Erciyes Ski Resort

   Ski on a volcanic mountain at Turkey's most modern ski resort — and photograph it.

7. Nature · Develi

   Freeride snowboarding at Erciyes

   Ride the pristine areas of Erciyes, some of Turkey's best terrain for off-piste snowboarding — and photograph it.

8. Culture & art

   Hike Koramaz Valley

   The cliffs along this valley are drilled with hundreds of carved dovecotes — not for the birds but for the droppings, which were the fertiliser that made the orchards work. Look up and count the openings. Photograph a cliff face full of them.

9. City discovery

   Paraglide at Alidağ (Kayseri)

   Paraglide at Alidağ near Kayseri — and photograph it.

10. City discovery

    Skydive in Kayseri

    Skydive in Kayseri near Erciyes — and photograph it.

11. City discovery

    Raft the Zamantı River

    Raft the Zamantı River in Kayseri — and photograph it.

12. Nature

    Visit Aladaglar National Park

    Visit Aladaglar National Park in Kayseri, Adana, and Nigde — and photograph it.

13. City discovery

    Ride the Erciyes Express (Kayseri–Adana)

    Ride the Erciyes Express between Kayseri and Adana — and photograph it.