Writer: Ayça Olcaytu İşçen
August 2010
 
“La Piste des Oasis” organized for the fourth times in Cappadocia between 23 and 28 May 2010 by Cap au Sud-Evasion travel agency in France. “La Piste des Oasis” is a race which is organized in world famous places with natural beauties and enables to run different natural racecourse everyday. The Cappadocia organization hosted 75 participants with its 4 different laps. The length of the laps differs between 25km and 36km. The local host of the organization was Alan Tourism based in Ürgüp. We had a talk with Halil Elalan, one of the stakeholders of the firm about this organization, which will be repeated biennially.

Alan Turizm Travel Agency
Alan Turizm, organizes culture and outdoor tours around Turkey for more than 30 years. The agency has been enabling many world travelers to love Turkey by its package or individual tours for the destinations such as Cappadocia, İstanbul, Bursa, Çanakkale, İzmir Aegean and Mediterranean costs, Black Sea, East and Southeast Anatolia. From stared hotels to boutique hotels and camping, the accommodation services of the agency is various, in addition the agency presents meeting and wedding organizations. For many years, Alan Turizm has been working with respected enterprises such as Nouvelles Frontières, Club Aventure, Grand Angle and Continents Insolites. Also they are one of the members of the Adventure Travel Network.

For further information: www.alanturizm.com   www.alanturizmevent.com

The Laps

May 24, 2010 (25km)
Ürgüp-Ortahisar-Mustafapaşa-Damsa

May 25, 2010 (20km)
Selime-Yaprakhisar-Belisırma-Ihlara (Down the Melendiz River)

May 26, 2010 (36km)
Mustafapaşa-Ayvalı-Mazıköy-Başköy

May 25, 2010 (25km)
Uçhisar-Bağlıdere Valley-Çavuşin-Kızılçukur Valley-Güllüdere Valley-Ortahisar-Ürgüp

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