Cappadocia
Travel Blogs from Cappadocia, Turkey
Lunar Landscapes
... (i.e., the Flintstones). It is a weird and wonderful place; there are many unusual land formations in this area of Turkey called Cappadocia, a World Heritage Site. Our first day was spent exploring the Goreme Open-Air Museum, a cluster of rock-cut ...
1000m high with a dude named Volkan
... rising out of the valley into the sunshine. Quite a sight. Goreme, which is a small town located in the area known as Cappadocia is a wonderful place and is probably best described by the following word: magical. It is located in a little valley that is ...
Where are all the Whos?
A big day of checking out Cappadoccia...it's a region of central Turkey with some pretty unique landforms. Looks like Who-ville in the Grinch.. But there are no Whos inside anymore... There's all these rock cones called faerie chimneys that ...
The center of Turkey, Baloons and caves.
... this tour was not very impressive, and certainly not what we were presented. We were contemplating renting a car and explore Cappadocia on ourselves. After lunch the group was rallied and transported to Goreme National Park. This is an open air museum ...
Hosca Kal Turkiye!
After an 11-hour overnight bus ride from the coast, we finally arrived in central Turkey in the Cappadocia region, known for its amazing landscape of unique rock formations. It was a relief to get to our hotel after the uncomfortable ride through the ...
More Turkey
İ read a very interesting book İ got from one of my tourmates: Nine Parts of Desire, The Hidden World of İslamic Women by Geraldine Brooks written in 1995. Very interesting if you want to know more about women and Islam. To ...
Hurray........
... I finally had the signed visas and our passports in my hot little hand. Yeah, we were off to Cappadocia, our last touristie thing in Turkey. The 300km drive to Cappadocia was enjoyable and scenic, mostly dry but we crossed a river several times, ...
Back to the Caves
... houses and hotels, which we didn't get to do last time. According to the Lonely Planet the beautiful landscape of Cappadocia was formed around 30 million years ago with the explosion of three volcanoes. The resulting landscape has been eroded over ...
Fantastical Fairy Land Flintstone Style
... advenures from Africa is at janicebeaton.blogspot.com Here's Jan from Flinstoneville..... Meet The Flintstones! Our trip from Olympos to Cappadocia was LONG. Leaving Olympos all buses stop in Antalya where you then have to wait out the day for the swarm ...
Amazing Cappadocia
22.8.06 Cappadocia, Turkey We agreed that the quickest and best way to enjoy the wonderous sight of Cappadocia, would be to have a guided tour, so the park owner's son Ahmet arranged for a guide, Shakir (58 years of age, retired high school teacher) and ...
The Underground City and the Flinstones.....
... But we were too tight as it was 100 quid - sorry paul!) After that they came back and we went to the amazing underground city of cappadocia (One of many) The caves are 1000 years old and 2000 people used to hıde from the arabs at one time, There are many ...
The Fairy Chimneys
Eastern Turkey is nice enough and long-term travellers say it can be the most interesting part of the country. We are down to the last three months of our trip though and we still have a lot of countries to see, so we start to head back west. One place ...
Classic Cappadocia
... century AD onwards, so many monks descended on this remote area seeking refuge from religious persecution. The tufa of Cappadocia is extremely simple to carve and tunnel through, so the Christians built camoflaged communities above and below ground ...
Boy Has This Place Changed..
... hours but our bike time was almost up so we sadly had to call it a day. If you're reading this and considering going to Cappadocia or Goreme in particular make sure you hire a scooter (ask for a new one) and make a day of touring the valleys by ...
Ruins and more ruins
We woke again to a wonderful scene from our window - the Aegean Sea in all its glory. Fishing boats were coming in and out of the small harbour and small waves were breaking on the shore. The girls found time for another swim and then we were on our ...
Cappadocia rocks- a lot!!!
... us up from the pension and took us to a bus, the size of the overnight bus, filled with tourists from Spain, France, Turkey, and wherever else. Our tour guide spoke Turkish and English. We first went to Pigeon Valley, where we could see the ...
Magical place with fairy phalli
I'll get around writing this entry... Balloon ride at 5:30am Red valley hiking ...
The magic of Cappadocia
... until relatively recently (the 1950s) but abandoned due to the erosion. In fact most of the cave dwellings in the Cappadocia region were abandoned after the proclamation of the Turkish state in 1923. At this time there were massive 'population exchanges' ...
Amazing place - seeing is believing: Cappadocia
... above me and listened to the sound of hot air taking them up higher. What an awesome way to start the day. The Cappadocia region was once home to several active volcanoes which erupted over 10 million years ago. It was covered with ashes which ...
Magical Cappadocia
Cappadocia is a fairy tale. Not necessarily one of those fairy tales with dragons and prncesses, but there are fairies, or at the very least fairy chimneys. This is what these incredible rock formations present throughout the region are called, though in ...
Goreme, City of Fairies
Hi All, Our original plan was to take the train from Istanbul to Ankara and then rent a car to tour the rest of Turkey. When waying the expense and hastles of taking the train with renting a car in Isanbul and driving, the car won out. We drove all day ...
Out of Turkey, goodbye friends
... and a mobile phone. But for the phone they look like they've come straight out of the bible. Mt Ararat is visible across Turkey about 30 kilometers from the border of Iran. We stopped to wait there for Lou and Lynn to catch up. Our overnight stop ...
Castles, Carpets and Caves
... the highest point of the surrounding area. The view was nothing short of spectacular. Probably I have used superlatives too much in my Cappadocia posts, but that's how it is here. We asked Faruk for a nice place to eat in town (Uchisar is not a ...
Crazy rocks
Cappodochia is a wonderfully strange land of beautiful hikes, psychedelic rock forms and kind people. Tina and I spent two days there and got off to a good start by staying at Kose Pension, owned by Dawn, a Scottish lady, who was full of information and ...
Goreme - Cappadocıa
... Olympos - The ultimate backpackers village with log cabins and tree houses to where we sit now - Here in Goreme - Cappadocia...the Volcanic rock area of Turkey set high in the mountains.....weve not seen it all, but weve seen a lot and seen many different ...
Kids' entries
Kate: The hotel in Cappadocia is fantastic. Mom and I shared a bed with a canopy in the honeymoon suite room. The idea of having a hotel in a cave is just brilliant. The manager is really nice. This morning during breakfast I saw and pet a kitty and ...
Off to Cappadocia
... far as modern civilization goes. So, I'm pretty much going to stick to a few anecdotes about the journey and expound on Cappadocia after our tour tomorrow. The bus drive included a connection, but aside from some near-bursting bladders (again, I'll ...
Cappadocia - Amazing Rock Formations.
... , caught a 2 hour bus from airport to London centre and the underground to our friends house. All in all it was a VERY long time between sleeps and showers! Footnote: Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia are UNESCO World Heritage ...

