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Goreme Slideshow
Goreme
Travel Blogs from Goreme, Turkey
Cappadocia -- Another World
We spent four days in this area and there was so much to see. At the outdoor museum at Goreme, we toured through cave after cave of ancient homes that had been carved out. Also, there were many churches, carved with impressive symmetry in their inclusion ...
Cappadocia - lost for words!
I am in absolute awe of the landscape here. All I want to do is explore valley after valley and keep going deeper. Rock formations carved and sculpted over years of wind and rain create amazingly beautiful shapes. No matter ...
5th November, Goreme Turkey
5th November, Goreme – Cappadocia Turkey Distance Travelled KM 10915 We enjoyed our time in Istanbul and managed to secure the Iranian visa ok, on leaving it took us a good 2 hours to cross the Bospherous and leave Istanbul city limits. Finally we ...
Old Ben Kenobi
"Your powers are weak old man" he said in his deep and sinister voice. "Strike me down and I will be more powerful than you can possibly imagine" I replied. Of course this is the typical type of banter cyclists have when they are attacking big ...
The "Open-Air Museum" - Goreme
Our day began with a visit to the renowned Goreme "open-air museum," a group of ancient churches carved from the region's soft tufa rock (the result of volcanic ash spewed some 30 milliion years ago). Most of the fascinating churches include ...
Cappadocia day 2
today was my second day here in the Cappadocia region. today i went on a tour. we saw rock formations and churches. did you know st. george is from this region? the formations here are from volcanic activity and erosion. many ...
Flintstones!
We have made our way to the center of the count via another LONG bus ride...Thank goodness for Metro bus company and their free water, tea and fruitcakeesque snacks... It was quite an unreal landscape though... We got off the bus and it literally does ...
We have landed on the Moon
Arrived in Goreme... well, actually, arrived in Kayseri- an old, converted military airport about an hour's flight from Istanbul. At the arrivals hall, there was this massive crush of people from the previous plane who had still not received their ...
The Love Valley
... and yesterday I hired him to show me around the area. He brought me for a hike in a place called Love Valley near Goreme. Many huge rock formations in the shape of male genitalia stood erect throughout the valley and it was very hard to keep ...
Kapadocja - slowin' down...
Poznym wieczorem dotarlismy do Kapadocji, rozbilismy sie na kempingu za 10 lira od lebka i poszlismy spac. Nastepne dni spedzilismy na zwiedzaniu tej krainy dziwnych ksztaltow skalnych, ale jako ze bylismy troche zmeczeni naszymi ostatnimi wizytami u ...
more raki? hayat...more kebap? evet!
Soooooooo Our last couple of days in olympos were bliss...we spent one day at the beach then the next day we went to a hammam in the next valley over...i got the traditional exfoliation then a bubble massage-so great...like 2 feet of bubbles surrounding ...
Day 247 - A Surreal Arrival
... are rabidly overpriced (beer at the cafés are the most expensive we’ve seen). Another oddity is that throughout Turkey, bottled beer is cheaper (slightly) than cans of beer for exactly the same volume of liquid. The ambience at ...
Turkey part II
... token out of Istanbul. The comfortable bus zoomed 650 kilometres through the Turkish night to Cappodocia in south central Turkey. I passed the night amazed at the speed of the bus, drinking the tea which was served and trying to figure out ...
Cappadocia
The bus that I was on attempted to drop us off at Nevsehir, which was about 30 minutes away from Goreme. The other tourists and I complained about this so the bus decided to take us straight to the center of Goreme town. I arrived at around 5am. I had a ...
Guardian angels
... it. Turns out my guardian was an Iranian Yoga instructor with some interesting travelling ideas. The following day I got a bus to Goreme and everything was sweet, although there are a few too any tourist here. Cheers for the hospitality mate. See ...
Flying High in Cappadocia
From Kas we headed to Olympos, staying in a deluxe version of the B&Q shed. This is another stunning beach area, but surrounded by ancient ruins and the most mystical Chimaera. For thousands of years, pilgrims have flocked to the natural gases ...
Cappadocia
... duty. At each bus stop friends and family were there to beat drums, dance, and chant. Cappadocia is a region in central Turkey known for it's strange landscape of rock spires called the "Fairy Chimneys". These formations have been used for thousands of ...
Day 249 - Tourists & Travelers
... areas are covered in fields of browned grass while the trees & plants seem healthy and vibrantly green. The Goreme Open Air Museum is a tourist hot spot that highlights a few of the area's rock dwellings and the best preserved/restored ...
Magical and Surreal
... where they could love safely for months at a time. We had the best hike of our lives yesterday when we hiked from Goreme to Çavuşin through the Rose Valley...just exceptional. And we went last night to a restored caravanserai from 1249 to see ...
Turkey
... , our guıde for the day marched us along lıke Japanese prisoners of war, so ıt was hard to appreciate the surroundings. Goreme itself ıs an amazıng place though, and well worth the two day slog to get there. It ıs a ...
Cappadocia: Land of underground cities
... received an interesting spiel on how the jewels are created and then offered some tea - even though Apple tea is quite prevalent in Turkey (and really good), we're convinced it's some sort of serum to convince us to open our wallets. Luckily, it ...
Cappadocia, waaahhhhhhhhh
The last few days in Goreme (Cappadocia) have been fucken sweet; even though the weather wasn't the best. And as Dave Keane put it, 'Welcome to Europe!’, smart ass Irish cunt, I’d try say something witty but I’m sure I’d would ...
Fairy Chimney or Are You Just Happy To See Me
(C) Time for the hike through the badlands of Cappadocia. Choice - Pasabagi Valley. Absolutely worth it, but don't forget this ain't no National Park. There are no handrails. Once again, we had the place almost ...
Hot Air Balloons and HIking
... formations. It was also crazy to see all the balloons up in the air. There are a ton of balloon companies that work out of Goreme, and our pilot said it seemed like everyone had all of their balloons out that day. It had been rainy and windy the last two ...
Kapadokya
Apres 12 heures de bus de nuit et 800 km parcourus nous arrivons au milieu du pays des canyons, des cheminees de fee, des villes souterraines et des eglises sculptees a meme le tuf (boue + basalte). Endroit unique tout droit sorti de l'imaginaton d'un ...
cave fun time
... i told him to drop me off and carry on by himself. but it was fun and the views were awesome. paul and anso are staying in turkey for another week or two and we are moving on to syria so we will be splitting up. also found an english book store HOORAY and ...