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Pack your bags (and your archeology kit)! The Museum Hotel in Cappadocia is a cave stay you'll never forget

- BY NAMRATA DEWANJEE

There is an inexplicable thrill that surrounds a cave. Blame it on our collective fixation on Dan Brown's novels. Invaluable antiques, spectacular scenery and enchanting details – for Robert Langdon, it’s the stuff of dreams but for the rest of us it's Museum Hotel Cappadocia. Being Turkey's only Relais & Châteaux property, the hotel offers a space for its residents to luxuriate in a time capsule of ancient Anatolia. Throughout the 34 rooms, you'll find Seljuks masonry to a cave dressing room, used as a sırahane (a room for pressing grapes and storing the must). From each space, views of the valleys stretch out before you. And at dawn, against Mt. Erciyes rise a flock of hot air balloons. Carved out of Tufa stone with accents of w