Luxury dog-friendly hotels in Cappadocia, Turkey

Cappadocia’s loopiest landscape may look like it’s been lifted from the moon – with enough hot-air balloons to make Phileas Fogg proud (even if he never actually set foot in one) – but it’s Anatolia (or Asia Minor) all the way. Central Turkey’s jaw-dropping geology includes man-made dovecotes carved into the volcanic tuff, Christian-sheltering caves and connicles, high plateaus and honeycomb-holed hillsides, ancient villages and underground cities, with the famous fairy chimneys topping it all off. The Silk Road stop has various valleys to hike over or hover above, including the world’s prettiest homage to everybody’s least favourite urban avians (sorry, pigeons) and Devrent Valley, famed for its bizarre animal-shaped boulders (squint and you’ll definitely see a craggy camel) that are surreal enough to make Dalí proud.