Whirling Dervishes

After our overnight train journey via Ankara and 6 hour bus ride to Cappadoci we made it with minutes to spare to see the Spiritual ritual of the Whirling Dervishes. Watching the traditional ceremony at Saruhan Caravanserai built in 1249 on the old Silk Road was mesmerising.
​The dervishes entered to hauntingly beautiful music and shed their black cloaks, and began to spin with their white robes expanding into circles, one hand reaches toward heaven to receive divine grace while the other points to the earth to share it. This isn't a performance to entertain it’s a living, deeply spiritual prayer of meditation and unity.Read more