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Goreme Slideshow
Goreme
Travel Blogs from Goreme, Turkey
Dawdling through Turkey
... baklava in restaurant, but was served with a leaflet instead. Does anyone know of the poet Mevlana? Entertained on bus to Goreme with aftershave and copious fizzy pop (designed to make you need the paying toilets at the regular stops). Arrived over the ...
Cappadocia
... frost was a very unwelcome sight! During the day it's nice though, but the evenings are chilly. Cappadocia is the area in Turkey with interesting rock formations, known as 'fairy chimneys', "which have been formed as the result of the erosion of the tufa ...
Babooshkas, the bus and a balloon trip
... Cappadocia at 9pm. I thought overnight bus meant you hopped on the bus and they drove overnight to get to your destination! Not in Turkey. Maybe not anywhere actually, maybe I made that concept up in my head. At any rate, our bus stopped every hour for ...
Jill wins Wet T-Shirt Race to Cappadoccia
... , as this was half my wardrobe. Luckily Apo is a clever lad, and he organised for my clothes to hitch a bus ride to Goreme (Cappadoccia) the same night we left Fethiye. It was rather exciting to guess who would arrive (if at all) at the Goreme ...
Another World
'Grrr...being that this is the 4th time I've attempted writing this blog, I'm just gonna go with the photos for this ...
Surreal landscapes
Up by 8:00am for breakfast to get first dibs on the buffet. Once its gone its gone. Another all day tour which I enjoyed. Fairy chimneys and surreal landscapes. It's like being on a different planet. Invited into a local fairy chimney home. What a life ...
Oh, What a NIght!
... lines are so helpful!) and steer us back onto the bus to get to our proper stop, about 15 minutes further on. We disembarked at Goreme (pronounced go-re-me) and were picked up by Bekir, the owner of the pension we had booked. He was very friendly and ...
Up, Up and Away!
Mark and I had been considering the tour in the hot-air balloon; it is a very popular tour in Cappadocia, but also an expensive one. After much weighing out, to the kids’ delight, we decided to take it. I wasn’t totally excited about this ...
Hanging Out In Cappadocia
... memories include... enjoying Carsten, Aidan and Sophia running and climbing through the various sinuous canyons surrounding Goreme... watching our musical friends coax the cords of their violins as they played an after dinner tune for ...
Goreme (Cappadocia)
As we arrived in Cappadocia at dawn with sticky eyes and rumbling bellies after an unsatisfactory sleep on the overnight bus, we were immediately jolted into wakefullness by the extraordinary scenery outside. A curious volcanic ...
The Land of Fairy Chimneys
... … We arrived back at our cave that was now ready for us and what a gem it was, it even had a spa! Goreme was just mindblowing, cities built underground that linked together via 9km tunnels and consisted of; kitchens, stables, churches for 2,000 ...
I May Go Blind
... first to admit that I didnt really pay much attention in science class. It wsa never my thing. So when the chance to come to Turkey to see a full solar eclipse popped up I was going because it was something neat to see, not for any interest in the ways ...
Cappadocia Continued
Day 21 of Trip: 1. Open Air Museum 2. Chavusin (small village in Cappadocia) 3. Avanos (Pottery Village) 4. Turkish Night (Live music, Dervish Ceremony, traditional turkish wedding, belly ...
Les terres du milieu
... Dans un bazaar (un centre d´achat oriental), tous les bijoutiers sont ensemble, puis les vendeurs de souliers, etc. Pour trouver du pain a Goreme, les trois dépanneurs (je viens de trouver comment faire les é ! ) d´une rue n´en vendait pas - on ...
Cappadocia Tour
... a hill, which is the higgest point in the area and has a stunning view. I had dinner at one of the many restaurants in Goreme that has pottery kebabs...they literally cook your dinner in a pottery vase over the fire and then crack it open when it's done! ...
Weird drive, fighting sickness and wonderful sight
... When we finally caught up with the group we discovered around half our troop were also ill. Goreme is in the heart of the Cappadocia area of Turkey and is filled with astonishing rock foundations. In earlier times the people built underground ...
Fairy Chimneys
If you plan a trip to Turkey make sure you include a trip to Goreme in Cappadocia - it is an amazing area, full of the most incredible rock formations - a great area for hiking, biking, ballooning or just chilling out. Nuff said on that for now, photos ...
Touring Cappadocia
... pulled up and we hopped in and were taken a few hundred meters to our Pension. Pretty much all of the hotels & Pension in Goreme are built into man made sand stone caves and ours was no different. Our room was cut directly into the cliff. We had ...
Into Turkey!, 5th country in 5 weeks.
... the truck to escape it!We checked out Crac De Chevelair, an 800 year crusader castle, very cool! We then crossed into Turkey, staying in Goreme, Cappadocia. We were up at 5am on our first day to go hot air ballooning over the rock pinnacles that formed ...
OPEN AIR MUSEUM GOREME
March 19, Thursday It was very quiet last nigh. I didn't even hear the 4:45 call to prayer, Len said he could barely hear it. The sun is shinning in our window and we can hear a bird singing. Breakfast is good. We can check our emails right ...
Cappadocia
... 3 days and many caves, chimneys and valleys we decide to go further East by train! PS: my short haircut has a big success in Turkey... Indeed each time i go to the women toilets I got scream at and shown the men toilets!! the first time I didn t get it, ...
Hot Air Balloon & Green Tour
... from up in the air were nothing short of magnificent. Plus, I had no idea when I will be able to get back to Turkey, much less Cappadocia. This was a must do when in this region. It was just so beautiful seeing balloons from different companies slowly ...
GOREME HOME TO THE FAIRY CHIMNEYS
... . Shortly we can see the fairy chimneys (they are something like hoodoos) and the homes carved into the hillside. We arrive at Goreme and check into the Walnut hotel. The rooms are arches, small and the bathroom is even smaller. It is quite nice, ...
a cup of home
... as most offer conflicting advice. I'm not sure what my next country will be like and thats pretty exciting I've really enjoyed turkey and i know i could easily spend another 2 weeks here and still not see it all however I've once again been hit by that ...
Cappadocia
... wine, which was surprisingly good, but a tad expensive. Slow pace and beautiful scenery, this is definitely the place to come in Turkey. Now off to Antakya as my last stop in the country. Note: still working on uploading pictures. It´s ...
Cappadocia
... have to stop and drink up the fantastic views of the rock formations and caves carved into them. Later we continued into Goreme and found our cave accommodation. On Friday we traveled north to Cavusin and found one of the cave churches with frescoes ...