A Cappadocia visit should include a visit to the city Hacibektas. The town is located about 1 hour drive from Nevsehir. You take a local minibus or midibus of Nevsehir. Through trips to the north of the city Gulsehir your arrival in Hacibektas.
About a quarter of people in Turkey belong to Islam-Alawi and Haci Bektas Veli is one of the leading personalities of this sect. Without a visit to Hacibektas, it is difficult to get a complete picture of Turkey. In today's world where we are looking for dialogue between religions, it is likely that a key to this dialogue is reflected in Hacibektas. Bektasi-Alawi sect of Islam is based primarily on the ideology that humanbeings in the centre of all and with their simplistic (and easy to understand) philosophy, but calls for simultaneous beeing a good person with a real life.
In Hacibektas community, I would suggest that you visit two places:
1) Hacibektas Museum, the monastery, where the pupils of the Bektasi-Alawi sect were trained. There you will find another section of the monastery with inter alia, the kitchen and the grave of Haci Bektas Veli.
2) the driving a few minutes from the city centre, you come to a kind of open-air museum with a amphi-theater and a "cilehane". "Cilehane" is a small cave, and if you through the small hole, this means that you are free of your sins. I could not manage, perhaps because I had a thick coat on me!
In the cultural centre of the city, you'll also be at certain times SEMA performances, the Alawis' traditional dances.
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