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Goreme Slideshow
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Travel Blogs from Goreme, Turkey
The Caves of Cappadocia
... tea. You may want to go on a tour of the Ilhara Valley and see the ancient underground city of Derinkuyu. Turkey has a very well organized tourist industry with many tour companies offering guided tours of the area by professionally-trained English ...
Cappadocia on a Scooter
... for only 5 lira. We then planned out our next course of action, taking a scenic route through small rural villages back to Goreme. The ride through the small villages was great, everyone would wave hello or beep their horn as you went past. There were ...
Love Walley Tour
... winery with descent wine, although France will probably be okay. Then we headed see the fortress at Uchisar just outside of Goreme on the way home. The evening was spent first with some drinks at the terrace of the Kelebek Cave Hotel, the ...
Cappadocia
... with pretty primitive living conditions. As bakground, Cappadocia is the name of the region in central Turkey, while we stayed in the town of Goreme. Cappadocia flourished between the 4th and 11th centuries as a refuge for early Christians. It is ...
Exploring beautiful Cappadocia
... ?... Mıcrosoft Word says no) so I decided to check out one of the star attractions of the Cappadocia region, the Goreme Open Air Museum. I arrived early as Lonely Planet suggested to "beat the crowds", but there were already 10 busloads of package ...
To go or not to go into Iraq
... amazing sight of the Middle-East ! More exciting are the paperwork while entering the country by land from Turkey. The Kurdish Regional Government issues its own tourist visa, good for travelling within Iraqi Kurdistan only. Citizens of ...
Tourıng Cappadocıa
... I just sıt here untıl he gets back and lısten to hıs Amerıcan top 40 musıc (Lady Gaga ın Turkey). Takıng a bus to Antakya, Bıblıcal Antıoch, tomorrow mornıng and then headıng ınto ...
Camping in Paradise!
(C) We drove from Ankara yesterday to Goreme in Cappadocia. So great to get out of Ankara. It's not a bad city, but it's very complicated and the traffic made me want to eat my foot. We pulled into this village at sunset and easily found ...
Cappadocia off-road
We hired bikes and checked out the region around Goreme today. The pictures speak for themselves. Overnighting it back to Istanbul tonight. Plenty more to see and do there before we fly out ...
Me vs Scooter - Round 2
... of course safe - speed of under 60kph. First stop was the Zelve monastery complex. This place lacks the elaborate frescoes of Goreme and other sites there's still plenty here to see. The series of valleys provided a good hour or so of exploring abandoned ...
Fairy Chimneys & Gnomish Toadstools
... the pre-dawn darkness, promising some exciting exploring to come. A shower and a nap see us ready to wander the streets of Goreme, a friendly little tourist town right in the midst of the Cappadocia region. Nearly all of the cave dwellings carved into the ...
Göreme: the frosty heart of Cappadocia
... night. It was around 3am, and I slipped in and out of sleep on the way to Göreme at the heart of Turkey's rocky and mysterious Cappadocia region. The huge canyons, valleys and strange rock formations that mark the area had been inhabited for thousands ...
Day 248 - Rock Talk
... (unconnected!) on the pillars below, balancing precariously for hundreds of thousands of years. We caught a short dolomus ride back to Goreme were we stopped at a local café. Mia had the best Kofte we’ve had yet while Eli experimented with a ...
Just for Spruce... arrival in Turkey
... 't take more than 4 hours, but apart from that İ'll leave it to Han to fill you in. First stop in Turkey is where we are now - Goreme. İts a small town in the middle of Cappadocia. As İ said at the beginning of this entry, ...
Calcium pools, luxury in Antalya, cave hotel
... in Olympos, we returned to Antalya for a night en route to Capadoccia, which is where we are now. The town we are in is called Goreme. I've been wanting to go to Capadoccia for years, and this was number one on my list of places I wanted to see on our ...
The Balloon That Never Flew
... . After a nap, we went to explore the valleys. First we went to the open air museum. Early Christians in this part of Turkey carved their churches and monasteries into the rocks to hide them from enemies. It was very cool to walk through small doors in ...
Goreme - Great place. Shame about the weather!
... in a certain part of the campsite due to it being prone to flooding if it rained. Remember this!!! Goreme is located right in the middle of Turkey in the Cappodocia region and is famous for it's natural volcanic rock formations which are often called ...
Eternal Flames, Headbangers' Ball, Fairy Chimneys
... like it could be in a national park in the Rockies. That evening I took an overnight bus to Goreme, in the central region of Turkey called Cappadocia. Cappadocia is famous for its bizarre rock formations called fairy chimneys, which have long been ...
Big old rocks
... said. But he insisted so we followed and then saw that he was actually paying cash over to the company for our ticket to Goreme. That's advanced booking technology for you. Again the bus ride wasn't too bad to begin with - a very modern bus that ...
Cappadocia
Day 20 of Trip: 1. Arrive Cappadocia 2. Hike through the White Valley, Honey Valley, Love Valley, and Pigeon Valley (4 hours) 3. Sleep in ...
Long Drive to Turkey
It was an ultimate driving day today! We got up at 4.15am to leave Aleppo at 5am. Because we were down to 15 people (and it's a 24 seater truck) most people found some space on the seats for a snooze. We were quite proud to be kiwi’s when we ...
6 Month Anniversary!!!
... ourselves. It was just a 'come along for the ride' type of day. First stop was an amazing panoramic view of Goreme. This is such a unique little town with a mix of modern homes and cave homes. Bizarre to look at. ...
Butterfly Ballooning
... license. The other one, an Englishman Mr. Green, had extensive experience flying balloons around the world. When arriving at Goreme, Capadocia (the land of beautiful horses as Alexander the Great named it) we went to the office and booked our ...
Cappadocia
After a long coach ride without much sleep due to an uncontrolable child with 2 parents squeezed into 2 seats we arrived early in the morning at the amazing Cappadocia. We'd seen loads of pictures of this place but in reality it looked even better. We ...
In Cappadocıa
Just got ınto Cappadocıa, flew from Izmır after takıng the traın from Selcuk. The landscape ıs truly ımpressıve, wıth "faıry chımneys" wıth houses buılt ınsıde. I am ...
Cappadocia - home of St George (and the dragon?)
... in snow and there are less tourists". Goreme was still full of tourists (we are getting more opportunities to practise Japanese in Turkey than in Japan!), the snow had turned to slippery ice and it was cold! Admittedly, the scenery is stunning. The ...
Goreme
... the computer beside my and now I'm itching to get out of here. - This is just sort of surreal, there are loudspeakers all over Turkey and a bunch of times during the day there will be prayers belted out all over the city. I had heard it in movies ...
Cappadoccia: Land of the Disobedient Horses.
... ride. We were looking forward to it and dressed up in our thermal long johns and jeans for extra padding. Arriving at the Goreme Rainbow Ranch we were rushed onto our horses and off we went. About 5 minutes down the trail we realised that (a) we ...
Touring Cappadocia Day 2
We awoke to a cool cloudy day on Saturday morning and thought that the weather from Istanbul had followed us. After breakfast the clouds began to clear and it was warm by the time our tour bus arrived at 10am. We had thought that there was not much ...