Cappadocia Tours & Turkey Tours
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Cappadocia Boutique Cave Hotels
Istanbul, Ephesus, Antalya, Nemrut
The Turkish Culture Tour Specialists
Walking, Trekking, Ballooning, Rafting, Jeep Safari, Bird Watching, Skiing Tours
Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia are on UNESCO's World Heritage List
CAPPADOCIA Evening Chillout
Whirling Dervish Show
The original whirling dervish, the Turkish Muslim Sufi Mevlana Calaleddin Rumi from Horason
in today’s Ozbekistan, was brought to Konya along with all the other leading philosophers
of the time at the behest of the most famous Selcuk emperor Alaeddin Keykubad.
Mevlana’s spectacular whirling sema (dance), which stunned and amazed spectators, was
designed to facilitate a deep, almost trance-like meditation of the love of Allah (God).
The “show” is given by members of the Mevlevi (Alevi) order, who follow Mevlana’s mystical teachings. The dance is a symbolic, ritualized routine that incorporates whirling. The performers wear the traditional costume with the hat symbolizing the gravestone, the white dress the soul, the black coat the grave, and the whirling the turning of all things (the stars, the earth, the baby in the womb, and even atomic particles. Live musicians play and sing philosophical music on traditional instruments inter-dispersed with readings of sections from the Koran.
Only here in Cappadocia is the full routine performed in a respectful atmosphere of dimmed lights where the audience sits around a circular stage in the setting of a traditional Caravanserai.
To book this trip and for custom-made Cappadocia tours Contact Adnan
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TUREB (Federation of Turkish Tourist Guide Associations), and WFTGA (World
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Adnan's guiding services are brought to you by Honeycomb Tours, Urgup, a TURSAB member
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