Astro Hasan Dağı Private Turkey Tours 2026: First Sky Map

Quick answer — A wall in Çatalhöyük holds what many archaeologists call the world's first map : a 9,000-year-old painted view of the village with a twin-peaked volcano erupting behind it. That volcano is still standing — Hasan Dağı, on the western edge of Cappadocia. Our private Turkey tours are the only programme that runs the map, the museum, and a night under Hasan Dağı's Bortle 3 sky in one Signature Made day. Competitors do not exist on this product. Why Hasan Dağı is the missing third leg of Astro-Archaeo Göbekli Tepe is the temple. Nemrut is the throne. Hasan Dağı is the view . The Çatalhöyük painting — dated to around 6600 BC — depicts the volcano in eruption, with its plume drifting east. Modern volcanology has dated a real eruption of Hasan Dağı to roughly that window. In other words: a Neolithic painter looked at the sky, watched a mountain throw ash into it, and recorded the moment. That is the oldest documented Anatolian act of sky-watching. Our private Turkey tours were built to put modern travellers on the same patch of ground. Pair Hasan Dağı with a Çatalhöyük dinner Our Signature Made loop pairs the painted-map briefing with the Çatalhöyük Neolithic-table dinner . One day, 9,000 years of continuous sky. Plan the Hasan Dağı loop → What an Astro Hasan Dağı day looks like 10:00 — Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara (or Konya transfer). Private viewing of the painted-volcano reproduction with our archaeologist. 13:00 — Lunch in Aksaray. Regional kıymalı pide and a long table conversation about how a 9,000-year-old painter chose what to record. 15:00 — Hasan Dağı plateau drive. 4×4 to the high pasture at 2,000 metres; the same volcanic skyline that frames the painting. 17:30 — Sunset and orientation. Our astronomer sets up two 10-inch Dobsonians and a hydrogen-alpha solar scope while you have hot apple tea. 20:30 — Painted-map debrief by lantern. The actual constellations a Neolithic observer would have seen overhead at the moment of the eruption.