We had a very early start today – to go for what has been THE highlight of the full trip – a balloon ride over Cappadocia around sunrise.

After we got picked up at the hotel we drove for about an hour to the starting point – here we made it into the sky – along with many, many, many other balloons (balloon rides are good business here). We spent about an hour in the sky before we had a pretty unerring landing – followed by a short ceremony, that even included sparkling wine.

The ride itself was simply awesome – fairly hard to put into words – the photos tell the tale.