Hasan Dağı and the First Sky Map: Stargazing Plan 2026

✓ Last reviewed: 29 September 2026 — Verified and updated by İlyas Bayrak, licensed Turkish guide (licence 070867), with the My Turkey Adventure editorial team. Prices, opening hours, transport fares and visa rules reflect the latest 2026 guidance. Ready to book? Private Türkiye tours with a licensed guide start from $480 per person per day — see private Turkey tours . 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 t