Goreme
Travel Blogs from Goreme, Turkey
Lunar Landscapes
... us with information. Our room was nicely decorated, clean and the bed was comfortable! We've slept on a lot of hard beds in Turkey. Goreme is a small tourist town of 2,000 people that sprang to life as a result of the surrounding landscape. It is a ...
1000m high with a dude named Volkan
... up. We were also lucky enough to witness over 50 hot-air balloons 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 ...
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 ...
More Turkey
... on and around rocks while staying next to a beautiful river. Think of Yosemite without the Sequoias. We arrived in Goreme a few hours ago. İ skipped the underground city on the way to Goreme because İ do not enjoy cramped ...
Hurray........
21.8.06 HURRAY, the visas have come through. Panorama Camping, GOREME I hurriedly caught a taxi to pick up all the visas from the Iranian Embassy. When I arrived, the visas had not been signed yet and the commissioner was in a meeting. Waiting is not ...
Back to the Caves
We had camped during our last visit to Göreme. This time I wanted to stay in a cave, so we did. It was lovely and cool inside so we had a snooze as the overnight bus journey had stuffed us. Consquently we didn't do much that day but we did look ...
Chapter 47: Holy carp!
... to get her to let him in. Ooops. Despite that, we hit it off well and spent a few hours wandering around cute Goreme snacking on peaches, drinking in the shade, and eventually chatting over dinner at Mercan Restaurant. At one point a guy named Mustafa ...
The Underground City and the Flinstones.....
Here we are ın the crazy land of Turkey. Agaın ıts the land of sales and we have been to see carpets and pottery. They gıve you free beer whılst the ıs the demonstratıon. Thıs seems like a free deal until you feel a little tidly and suddenly ...
The Fairy Chimneys
... and even connecting paths into the 'chimneys'. More recently, many have been adapted into hotels, pensions and restaurants. Goreme (pronounced Ghur-a-may) is the centre of Cappadoccia's tourist scene, an attractive little village where most of the ...
Classic Cappadocia
... will... To get here Mystery and I rode a red-eye bus service from Antalia to the teeny town of Goreme (pron. Goremay) in Turkey's heartland - Central Anatolia. Eleven straight hours on a very uncomfortable bus arriving at 6am is always going to turn ...
Boy Has This Place Changed..
... was probably originally excavated a couple of hundred years ago it was pretty comfortable and cool given the temperature extremes that Goreme experiences throughout the day. OK then, day 1 was spent in the cave making like Fred and Wilma Flintstone ...
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 ...
Amazing place - seeing is believing: Cappadocia
... and water eroded the tuff into free standing domes and other strange formations. We chose to stay in the small village of Goreme. This town has underground cities and cave dwellings dating back to around 300AD. We walked out to the Open Air ...
Goreme, City of Fairies
... a car in Isanbul and driving, the car won out. We drove all day yesterday from Istanbul and arrived here in Goreme at 11:00pm. What an incredible surprise when we came into this enchanting village. It is almost indescribable. Everywhere you look is a ...
Crazy rocks
... best to go there really knowing your New Testament as you will get far more out of it. I think its great the way Goreme not only has an incredible landscape but also this important contribution to the Christian heritage. We ate a sumptuous meal at ...
Goreme - Cappadocıa
... , then to 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 ...
Wacky Rocks and a Close Shave
... early in the 200's A.D. or so. The built monasteries and churches inside the rock flutes and hills. Today I poked around the Goreme Open Air Museum. I can't imagine what life must have been like for the people who lived here. Yesterday I had my first ...
Another planet? Exploring Capadoccia
... impressive given the conditions. After sunning ourselves on the coast we didn't quite expect the freezing temperatures we encountered in Goreme and got a few laughs from the locals as we walked around with our beanies, gloves and scarves. So far in ...
Cappadocia: mmm, pointy
... when the light works well on the tufa. Nice. Finally, should also mention the other obligatory event on the Goreme calendar - an all-inclusive Turkish 'Night Out' to see the Whirling Dervishes and bellydancers, eat fifty tiny portions of ...
Cruising along the country roads of rural ...
... at the speed of a lawnmower. We stopped to search for the elusive map as we neared the fairy chimneys outside Goreme. Our rusty steed didn't appreciate being parked on a gravel incline and promptly jammed it's brakes, making it impossible to move. ...
Inertia and the Art of Motorcyling in Love Valley.
... me ever since I arrived in Turkey. Sick as a dog when I hopped off my overnight bus from Aleppo, into a maudlin and drizzly Goreme morning, I was not in the best frame of mind, and a one-two combination of my comedown from Syria and sheer travel fatigue ...
Kids' entries Cappadocia
... , fancy plates, a rug store where mom got 2 rugs for the living room and her office. It was another fantabulous day in Turkey. Josh: We woke up and we had breakfast. They had lots of weird jellies, including rose, grape, strawberry and cherry. ...
Capital to Smurf Villages! (Ankara to Kapadokya)
Arriving at something like 6:00 am in the morning sleepy and hungry, we travelled by a service bus from the bus station (otogar) to Urgup where we had made a reservation for a hotel at the bargain price of 10 million TL for the night (around £4.00) ...
More beers in Goreme
... , we ordered some scooters and decided the only way to see this place was to hit it on the scooter. First stop was the Goreme open air museum. Here carved into the funny rock formations are 100's of dwellings, plus there are a few churches with original ...
Goreme (blog)
... went on a 2 hour balloon ride this morning (and I actually have photos for a change!). But let me start from the beginning (of Turkey)... Istanbul is a city you have to visit if you haven't already. With half of it in Europe and half of it in Asia it ...
Moonscape hiking and hours around a fire
... the owner) made more and more small talk. Eventually, I was sitting around a table with some of the family talking about Turkey, their laws, rules, army duties, religion, education, marriage - and that of the states. Two hours after the restaurant had ...
Goodbye Cappadocia
... good and if we get a guide again in Turkey, we will book with his company, Argeus Tours again. They have offices all over Turkey. Also, to be a tour guide here, you have to be licensed by the government. He took us first to one of the underground cities. ...
Chimneys
... we walked around the town and the surroundings. Taking it in and checking out all the chimneys. Just in case you did not know, Goreme was formed from a volcano. All the soft rocks have now eroded and what you see are the remains. It's pretty cool to look ...

