Inns become beauty centers in the town of fairy chimneys

Three rock-carved inns in Cappadocia have turned into a mud bath facility, with the aim of creating a different tourism alternative in the region Turkey's first rock-carved underground mud bath will serve in the Cappadocia region, as local inns, which served as lemon storage facilities in the past, have been reorganized into an new tourist attraction. 

The underground mud bath center, which will host its guests accompanied with experts, features baths, mineral water and fish. 

The founders of the center, Taner Özkaradeniz and Burak Yüksel, said the facility would have a significant place among Cappadocia's tourism alternatives. 

Özkaradeniz said they had reorganized three inns to establish the center, adding it would be the first of its kind in the field of health tourism. 

Besides the bath pool, the 2,000-square-meter facility offers a warm water pool, doctor fish, shopping and cafés. 

Cappadocia's rock-carved inns have a significant place in the region, which was formed with the effect of lava spread by the Hasan and Erciyes mountains 60 million years ago, and are generally used as museums or storage. 

With the approval of the Health Ministry, tourism manager Özkaradeniz and constructor Yüksel have turned three of those inns into the mud bath facility. 

"Besides hot air balloons, Turkish nights and safari tours, the mud bath will be an alternative tourism field in the region," they said. 

Özkaradeniz said they had been operating mud baths in their facilities in the western province of Mu?la's Dalyan district and the southern province of Antalya for many years. 

"Three or four years ago, we searched the places in Turkey for mud baths and decided on the Cappadocia region because...