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Host rating
80 %
Last replied
17 Mar 2025
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Description
My name is Cemal and İ run a horse ranch and breakfast saloon with my family in Cappadocia.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Gardening
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Hospitality/Tourism
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We make horse tours in the beautiful valley around the ranch.
Help
As a voulunteer you can help my mother in the kitchen when it is busy, or you can help with the horses. But there is a lot of time to go to the village, to visit other parts of Cappadocia, go for walks or horsebackriding in the valley.
You are a guest of the house and eat together with my family.
İt is a good oppurtunity to learn some turkish and maybe teach some english to my family.
İn summertime you can also help with our organic garden.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Turkish: Fluent
Accommodation
You can either stay in the village with my family - you will have your own room - or at the ranch in a real cappadocian cave with a stove.
What else ...
To get to my ranch you can take the bus to Göreme (3km from the ranch) or Ürgüp (5km) and İ can pick you up.
There are a lot of things to see in Cappadocia, and in your sparetime you can go anywhere you want and we can also go some places together. İ can Show you the village and the valley.
We live close to Göreme open air museum, the panorama view point. There are good hiking routes and of course you can go on a balloon tour.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (15)
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Accuracy of profile:
(5.0)
Cultural exchange:
(4.8)
Communication:
(4.8)
Cemal welcomed us (3 friends) as we were his family, and we only had helped with the ranch chores (cooking and cleaning) and with the horses. We helped with horses tours and he even offered us a sunrise tour. Cemal, his friends and workers were very friendly. Even if it was hard to communicate at the beginning… read more
Weather was not perfect, but always sunrise was amazing! You need to see it. Come here and be a part of nature.
Thanks a lot for the perfect experience!
Everyone made me feel so welcome and at home, they take hospitality to a new level! Cemal is trying to ensure you’re having the best time at all times, I never really felt like I was working. He arranged for me to go on… read more
It was absolutely wonderful experience staying on the farm with your family. You treated me with respect and I felt at home. The landscape, the horses, atmosphere all great and unforgetable. Thank you
Cemal is very open and nice person, nice to chat and work with.… read more
Cemals ranch… read more
The ranch is absolutely spectacular. The work is not hard - mainly just speaking English to tourists when they come, preparing some restaurant… read more
