The Great Ride

After breakfast, the teams are put together and the rules of the trail are explained.
You meet your horse and start for a one hour ride on the southern part of the lake in a flat landscape ideal to get confident with you horse, team and guide.
Each team is to choose its own way. Other team’s riders may be seen in a distance.
After the lunch gathering all the riders, your team has three hours to cross an agricultural area, to climb up to the crest of Yesilisar, then to take a long ride across Akkoy lake and Keslik village or straight away to Erdemli Valley to reach the camp.

Dinner and rankings of the day. Night in the Erdemli Valley. Before sleeping you will have to build your strategy for the next day!

On the second day, the team that arrived last the day before is to start first.
6 hours in the saddle with many riding options:
You start the day on a stony high plateau, through fields and meadows of the high Anatolian plateau (1600 m high), overlooked by the Erciyes volcano with its snowy peak.
It’s up to you to decide on the itinerary, go around Hodul Daha or ride downhill by the Damsa Valley; the most challenging one gives you the maximum points!
Camp in the green and peaceful Karlik Valley. Dinner around a big camp fire, rankings of the day and strategy for the next days.

Now that your team got used with the rules and is able to evaluate the other competitors level, this is a day for an exciting competition, when missing the entrance of a valley can make you lose your position of leader.
Many remote canyons to visit, underground villages and churches that you shouldn’t miss… Keeping your eyes open will make you win lots of points! 
Later on, the land turns into wide open, bare spaces where shepherds lead their flock, helped by the impressive Kangal dogs. After a last canter on the steppes, you arrive at the camp « Subasi ».

Vineyards, orchards, valleys, and remote villages. The labyrinth of Cappadocia could make your arrival on time at the evening camp difficult. Will you take one of the easiest way or a challenging one?
Arriving in the northern part of the National park, during this long riding day you can see the more scenic and sculptural valleys of Cappadocia: Zemi, Pigeon, Love and White valleys.
Night on the top of the red valley.

After an early wake up to admire the sunrise, the ballet of balloons taking off close by.
The day start with a long canter on an open plateau, overlooking the maze of colorful valleys.
Red valley, Boz daga, Devrent valley, all beautiful, all challenging.
Arrival in Uzengui valley for the night, nearby Ranch.

A training course where your horse has to pass some « obstacles » (mud, door, U turn, slalom) brings your team more points. Your horse is to undergo the vet-check for a 40 kms endurance race, and you get all the information about the rules and organization of the race. 
Opportunity to shop in Gorëme, to visit the open air museum or to laze around.

Travel back from Kayseri Airport.