Where the east combines with the west, Turkey is like a bridge of cultures for ages. And in Cappadocia you can see what this combination means; a peaceful area where you will always be surprised by the people’s complaisance. You will be always invited by local people through the villages for a glass of tea. They just want to share some moment to show Turkish hospitality. Your origin never makes them hesitated; they only wonder about how you can cycle through the land all day on the saddle. Cappadocia is getting popular among mountain bikers. Some people call this biking passion as “Fat Tire Religion” ; if they are right, Cappadocia is the Mecca for mountain bikers. We have our International Mountain Bike Festival, annual on the first week of July. Festival includes a UCI registered D2 stage race for 3 days, many cultural activities; like concerts, theatric activities, photo and painting exhibitions, many social activities; like public health researches, sportive conferences and panels about what means mountain biking for this area. Every year, we are hosting better racers and better teams. And out of our organization, many professional riders are coming to the area to have some commercial photography or some movie clips. Most famous one is the producer of Kranked series Radical Films, who was here before our first mountain bike festival in 2000 and they added the shots to their Kranked 3 movie. After that we hosted many professional riders for commercials and catalog works.
Turkey is always a good tour destination for tour bikers.Some of intercontinental tourers passed from Turkey to see the east.If you make search at Google you may see most of them.
Mountain biking is gaining a huge popularity in Turkey as a sport and as a tourism type.As a sport;Turkey had no classment at December 2004 among countries in UCI list of points.But at the end of 2005; Turkey has 22nd rank on the list of UCI National Paints.
As a tourism type;every year,we have more rider guests.Companies started to take serious these tours.But honestly we are the first,still trying to be the best.
You may visit www.cappadociaexclusive.com and www.cappadociamtbfestival.com
