Goreme, Turkey Travel Blogs

Lunar Landscapes
Nov 2, 2005 (35 photos)

... 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 magical ...

Where are all the Whos?
Dec 16, 2007 (71 photos)

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
Jul 17, 2007 (10 photos)

... 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 dark ...

Back to the Caves
Aug 24, 2005 (21 photos)

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 around ...

fairy chimneys and hittite caves, capadoccia
Sep 24, 2006 (9 photos)

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Chapter 47: Holy carp!
Aug 10, 2004

... 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 who ...

Classic Cappadocia
May 7, 2006 (29 photos)

... 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 ...

The Underground City and the Flinstones.....
Nov 25, 2005 (11 photos)

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 have your eye on a ...

The Fairy Chimneys
Aug 1, 2007 (9 photos)

... 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 ...

Boy Has This Place Changed..
Aug 4, 2006 (18 photos)

... 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 and ...

Kids' entries Cappadocia
Jul 6, 2007 (2 photos)

... 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. They ...

Cappadocia rocks- a lot!!!
Aug 10, 2008 (31 photos)

... 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 U- ...

Magical place with fairy phalli
Aug 11, 2008 (44 photos)

I'll get around writing this entry... Balloon ride at 5:30am Red valley hiking                             & ...

Goreme, City of Fairies
Sep 5, 2004 (4 photos)

... 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 ...

Goreme - Cappadocıa
Aug 22, 2005 (7 photos)

... 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 ...

Goodbye Cappadocia
Jul 6, 2007

... 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. ...

Crazy rocks
Mar 30, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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 Kose, ...

Cruising along the country roads of rural ...
Jul 16, 2002 (22 photos)

... 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. ...

Goreme (blog)
May 4, 2007 (67 photos)

... 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 ...

Another planet? Exploring Capadoccia
Oct 20, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

Inertia and the Art of Motorcyling in Love Valley.
May 7, 2006 (22 photos)

... 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 ...

Cappadocia: mmm, pointy
May 8, 2006 (29 photos)

... woes by chewing shards of pottery all night. Mmmm, crunchy! So that ends a great time in Cappadocia and Mystery's time in Turkey *sob*. A major highlight of this huge country that I'd do it again by bus even if it is ten or eleven hours from Istanbul, ...

Wacky Rocks and a Close Shave
Sep 4, 2006 (16 photos)

... 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 ...

More beers in Goreme
Apr 15, 1998

... , 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 ...

Capital to Smurf Villages! (Ankara to Kapadokya)
May 10, 2003 (12 photos)

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) ...

Cappadocia
Oct 31, 2000 (11 photos)

... Park on the old silkroad, a traditional pottery and finally finishing with an unbelievable sunset over the Fairy Chimney rock formations. Cappadocia is another one of the many gems to contribute to turkey fast becoming one of my favourite countries.

Chimneys
Aug 27, 2005 (9 photos)

... 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 ...

Moonscape hiking and hours around a fire
Oct 22, 2005 (15 photos)

... 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 ...

writing ads 4 bat sh*t, backgammon, cave dancing
Oct 23, 2005 (8 photos)

... more unusual. I turned down the opportunity to hop on the back of one the families scooters and ride through the canyons around Goreme, so I could walk to the open air museum, enjoy some tea in a cafe and shop the fruit markets. All seems rather normal. ...

Cave Dwellings....
Oct 22, 2005

... , buses, airport 1, airport 2, buses and walking - in that order - to get here today. Start at 5am, and I HOPE to be in Goreme by 11pm. Although, I'm sleeping in a cave here, so I don't know how much comfort I will have once I arrive! So, I guess I ...