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Cappadocia Slideshow
Cappadocia
Travel Blogs from Cappadocia, Turkey
Cave Churches
Went to the open air museum in Goreme. It is a bunch of carved out churches with mosaics in them. It was a bit pricey though. Getting to the point where an attraction costs as much or more than a night in a hostel! Did nothing else today. I felt bad ...
Land of the Fairy Chimneys
... in another Mercedes van (very popular in Turkey) and we were off to see the famous "fairy chimneys" and fantastic landscapes of Cappadocia (think hard C). If you look this up on Google, you will see a more phallic version of a fairy chimney. ...
View from a Balloon
... launch site. We had signed up for a hot air balloon ride that began with the sun rising over the hills of Cappadocia. Just Dara and I had volunteered our lives and fortunes for the sake of American courage and justice for all. It ...
Discovering 'real' Turkey in Cappadocia
... couple of hours, until that too was replaced with a vast and barren desert-like landscape. Soon, we witnessed the landscape that Cappadocia is famous for – pillar-like rock formations protruding from the earth for as far as the eye can see. When ...
Fın de la march - End of walk
... easıly compare to a daıly clımb of Mount Washıngton. And the heat!!! Now we start the tourıst vısıt untıl our second 5-6 day walk ın another part of Turkey (Cappadocıa) startıng on October ...
Cave hotel in cappadocia
A traditional Cappadocian zone White stone made lovely hotel (19 roomed) in heart of Cappadocia located near Goreme and center of Cavusin location. Anitta Cave Hotel has 19 rooms (15 Standard rooms, plus 4 cutted Stone made superior rooms) in and all ...
Mar 11, 2007
Transport Tycoon
... qu'un nouveau réseau ferroviaire, mais beaucoup moins satisfaisant! Nous avons débuter notre voyage Istanbul-Göreme (dans la région de Cappadocia) à partir de la plus grosse station d'autobus que j'ai vu de ma vie. 3 ou 4 étages, des centaines ...
au Centre de la Cappadoce
en Cappadoce pour 6 jours de visite des cheminées de fée et des villes ...
Nature at its most amazing
Caught up with Paul and Barb at the hotel It is a four star cave hotel wich has been created around very old dwellings .It is a new venture only opened for a year.It is the most luxurious place we have stayed in. The scenery is amazing hard to really ...
A MUST SEE
I hitchhiked with two guys, who were selling furniture 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 ...
Turkish Delights
... hostel wasn’t exactly as advertised. Needless to say a cave hostel in October really isn’t that great of an idea. Cappadocia had a great under ground city close by that was great to walk through and experience what life might have been like ...
We stayed in a cave....with a goat
... live in the caves nearby have goats, rooster and other animals that greet us with sounds that echo throughout the valleys. Cappadocia's terrain is filled with "fairy chimneys" (I'll let you look at the pictures and let you draw your own ...
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
After the most of drives (think 12 hours and long long long straights we arrived in Goreme which is part of the Cappodoccia region. Famous for it's rock formations that people over the centuries carved out houses to live in. They are still lived in ...
Sultanhani
From Goreme we drove along the famed Silk Road, with "han" or caravanserai every 30 km or so. One of the best known is at Sultanhani. Here the caravans could rest for up to 3 days, while doing business and buying insurance from the ...
ksanapaw
Constantinoupolis(In greek means the city of Constatine Emperor) -or Instanbul as it is widespread known- is a 'must' destination for all Greeks.U can feel the importance our Hellenic Empire and its influence in the world ...
Fairy Chimney's Galore!!!
Thursday, May 5, Urgup, Cappadocia Region, Turkey Ok for those of you who have forgotten your Turkish geography, the Cappadocia Region is in the middle of Turkey. There are seven regions in Turkey all together. If you start with Istanbul and work your ...
A true Turkish Delight :)
... the landscape began to change and then suddenly there were rock formations and valleys as far as the eye could see, this was Cappadocia!! We found our campsite amongst the "chimneys" and we were going to set up camp but the temperature was over 30 ...
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 ...
Ihlaradal, het "andere" Kappadokië
Voor wie tijd heeft en niet gebonden is aan een strak georganiseerde reisonderneming kunnen we het "andere" Kappadokië (Ihlara, Güzelyurt, onderaardse steden, kratermeren...) warm aanbevelen. Nog weinig of geen toersime, geen drukte, niet ...
Beautiful Cappadocia
... I would be quite so taken with the scenery, but it was just beautiful. This is one very special place. Cappadocia is a smallish area in central Turkey, located about 12 hours by bus from Istanbul. We caught an overnight bus here (our favourite part about ...
