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Travel Blogs from Goreme, Turkey
Balloon Ride Over the Fairy Chimneys
... headed out to a restaurant in town called the Dibek. It was recommended by one of the sons as the best place to go for great Turkey food, and it certainly was! We took off our shoes and sat on cushions on the floor at low tables. Outside the local older ...
Transport Tycoon
De nouveau sur la route, déjà! Honnêtement, le seul truc qui est emmerdant en Turquie est le fait que leur système de train est désuet et que le pays a plutôt misé sur une armée d'autobus pour réaliser le transport inter-cités. ...
au Centre de la Cappadoce
en Cappadoce pour 6 jours de visite des cheminées de fée et des villes ...
A MUST SEE
... as middleman to the stores all around Cappadocia, and for me it was a great oppotunity to see a lot of places. Now I am at Goreme, which is very special. Ancient cultures build their twon in the rocks. Tomorrow morning I will shot some photos so you ...
Turkish Delights
... the two massive structures there were beautiful fountains and gardens full of chestnut vendors and stray cats. The people in Turkey are very interesting, they always try their best English impressions to try and get your attention or joke around with ...
Chapter Ten - Some archeology and dinner
The odd sounding Göreme Open Air Museum awaits us. "Is it a museum without a roof?" asks Miryam. "Not exactly. It's more like an archeological site. It's a huge complex of rock-cut churches and monasteries. These places are cut into the limestone just ...
Goreme - Cappadocia
... is apparently a famous name. We never found out what for though. We drove up to one of the look out points which overlooked Goreme. It was amazing. A huge sea of columns and rocks formations which houses had been carved into. If you have seen Star Wars it ...
Hot Air Ballooning
A dream come true! I always wanted to go on a hot air balloon ride, so when I saw the flyers for it in Cappadocia, I knew we had to try and get a tour with that included, and we did. :) We had to wake up at 4:30am for a 5:00am pick up at the hotel. I ...
Day 10 - Arriving in Cappadocia
... some kind of shortbread type pistachio crumble. We befriended a South African couple that are living in Tanzania. They are travelling around Turkey for their 20 th anniversary. They kindly introduced Anton to Raki - similar to Uzzo- and the evening got ...
Charismatic Cappadocia
... , "oohs" and "aahs" constantly, heavy eyes, really tired, adrenalin pumping....... Very little sleep on the overnight bus to Goreme. We arrived at our hotel about 7.30am but unfortunately our room still had others sleeping in it . We had a leisurely ...
Cappadocia
Took the night bus (12 hours!) from Selcuk to Urgup which is a town near Goreme in Cappadocia. For the next two days, will be looking at... yes, you guessed it :) ... more rocks *laughs* However, these rocks are naturally formed and they ...
Beautiful Cappadocia
... ’t have a patch on the South America ones – this just amazes me. Despite the large distances involved in travelling around Turkey, they don’t even have toilets. Instead the bus stops every hour or so for people to buy food and drinks and ...
Snow?!
... neither of us could feel our feet or hands. After what seemed like an eternity we arrived at the town of Uchisar, only 6 km from Goreme and found ourselves the first warm place posssible to sit by a fire and drink some tea. This is the coldest either of ...
Chapter Nine - Peri Cave Hotel
When booking the Peri Cave Hotel there was the option of a regular hotel room or a cave room. However can you consider staying at a cave hotel, and not staying in a cave? The difference in price is not great, so I opt to live like a troglodyte for one ...
Cappadoucia
... there, but pretty worn out. A lot of the pictures depicted the life of Jesus. There are a lot of stray cats in Turkey. I like cats, so this is not bad, but they are just everywhere. I guess there was a story about Mohammed being ...
Transfiguration is where you find it
... find it! I'm heartbroken to leave Cappadocia and the Kelebek Hotel, but onwards now to the Lycian Coast (the southern coast of Turkey that runs along the northern part of the Mediterranean Sea, the water color there of such depth and complexity we take ...
4 amazing days In GOreme
... today and were the oldies but.x..we did manage to keep up....yeah... Rose Valley, which was quite a hike. If you look up Goreme, Turkey, it will show the landscape. sorry haven't had time to Download photos and sort....too many. Lots of village women ...
Full day underground city ..
God has created earth along with many natural wonders to keep mankind keen and ...
Goreme, Turkey
... ;Other tourists had to share their basket with 26 others - bloody peasants! As you can imagine OHS is not big in Turkey and the pilot told us a rival company used cheaper more balloon material and they had an accident where a passenger was paralysed ...
Goreme
This is just a brief entry today. Cappadocia Day was yesterday followed by Turkısh Nıght. The sights in Cappadocia are ıncredible. Underground cities, volcanic formations, and views that have been descrıbed as The ...
Underground Cities, Monasteries and Pigeon Poop
... MacGilligy and Blonde Ambition 2 seats behind us). We drove for a while and stopped at a beautiful panaramic scene overlooking Goreme. Seeing all of the peeks and rocks from above was pretty spectacular. Our time limit there came quickly ...
olives and cucumbers at breakfast?
I know I can't believe it, but it comes with the omelette at breakfast and I kind of like it. We've been here in the Cappadocia area since Sunday and the contrast with Istanbul or anywhere else for that matter is striking. This is the ...
Goreme, Cappadocia
I've made it to Cappadocia safe and sound. The bus ride didn't kill me, though it did make me completely miserable. Cappadocia is out of this world! It's too strange to be called beautiful on first seeing it; the landscape is bizarre in a way that I ...
Green Tour
... us there and we were joined by a couple of American girls, one of whom is now teaching at an American school in Turkey. The performance is more a religious ceremony rather than just a dance and the special thing about this performance is that is more ...
Cappadocia day and Turkish night
... any other long dark tunnels so we stuck a little closer to the tour groups and eventually made our way back into the intense Turkey sunlight. My eyes stung and I couldn't help but squint when we emerged after only an hour. Imagine living down there for ...
Ohh La La! Cappadocia!
Arriving in Cappadocia early in the morning was something to see. We entered the town of Goreme with fantastic landscapes and rock formationgs shooting up out of the ground around us. They are so difficult to explain, but some do look ...
WOW
... ıng ıt!!! Today we had an another actıon packed day. We started out at the World Hertıgage outdoor Goreme Museum. Here we wandered around and ınto the strange lookıng faırey chımneys where the ...