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Cappadocia Slideshow
Cappadocia
Travel Blogs from Cappadocia, Turkey
Big old rocks
... a bit of frost here and there. We're not complaining though as we definitely aren't really equipped to deal with snowy central Turkey just yet. Upon arriving this morning we were unable to find anywhere open for a warm meal. The best we could find ...
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 ...
Kapadokya - Hotter, Dryer, Cheaper, Older
... million years from now, pretty crazy. That’s a lot of years for erosion to happen, and that’s what made Cappadocia so unique. The first thing you notice about the area is the caves. A thousand years ago (or more?), people ...
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 ...
Pigeon Valley hike
... appricot. 2 were given to me to try. False advertising, did not work. The hike through pigeon valley was my favorite experience in Cappadocia. Tash was spider woman as we all had to rock climb a little to get back on track. A dog followed us for quite ...
6 Month Anniversary!!!
Decided it was time for a little celebration. Today marks 6 months from the time we left Canada, 6 months into our 10th year of marriage, and hey - Christmas is almost here! Started the day off with a package tour. This was a great ...
Going Underground
Bill: We are currently in central Turkey. The area is known as Cappadocia and is covered in amazing natural sandstone formations. We took the overnight bus from Istanbul, which wasn't that bad. I managed to stay asleep most of the way. On arriving at ...
Butterfly Ballooning
Hi from Goreme! We made it to the land of fairy chimneys and cave pensions also known as "Cappadocia!" You know you've seen it all in it's glory when you fly 1000 metres high on a floating hot air balloon. YES, it's a tourist thing to hire a balloon ...
Onto the tourist trail of Turkey
... formations, and unfortunately covered with tourist. There was no doubt that we had reached the tourist trail of Turkey and for a good reason, as Cappadocia was sensationally stimulating to the eye. Our excitement grew as we woke early the next day to ...
Cappadocia
... 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 checked into to our hotel- Koze ...
cappadocia***
In english En espanol German cappadocia Depuis Pammukale, compter 18 euro en bus. Cheminées de fées, ...
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.
The place name Cappadoccia (sometimes spelt Kapydokya) originates from a Persian (Iranian) word that means Land of the Beautiful Horses. We decided this was the perfect place to take a horse ride. Our guesthouse organised the local ranch business to take ...
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 ...
Red and Rose Valley Hike
Another fantastic sleep-in in our cave room! We pretty much woke up when the party-goes woke up at 9.30am. Annie and Phil made a lovely breakfast of toast, eggs and beans, which was a much welcomed hot breakfast on a crispy cold morning. Graham had told ...
Our Hols
Egirdir
... many jagged peaks and high cliffs. We still had the occasional wild goat crossing the road and even some turtle crossing signs. In Turkey farm equipment shares the road with everyone else and it just seemed so out of place to me to see traditional Muslim ...
Cave Dwellings & The Evil Eye
Cappadocia is known for its cave dwellings, which date back thousands of years. These dwellings, or rather Underground cave cities, were carved over years into elaborate fortresses which could house thousands of people. Many of the dwellings had ...
Cappadocia and caves
... these were fascinating. After we had finished the walk we moved to another hotel ın a town called Avanos, in central Cappadocia. The hotel was fantastic with lots of character set in an Ottoman mansion wıth the perfect balance of traditional ...
Afrodisias - The City of Love
... site of Afrodisias - named after Aphrodite, the goddess of love - which is supposedly one of the finest sites in Turkey . Excavations have shown there were continuous settlements at the site dating back to 5000 BC, with the town reaching its peak under ...
Cappadocia
... on the Med, 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 ...
Cappadocia
Cappadocia underground city fairy chimmeys in tghe Goreme Valley National Park. Beginnings of Christian Mysticism In the early fourth century BCE, the three great Cappadocian fathers: Gregory of Nyssa, his brother Basil the Great and their ...
Televison and Bread
Help! Well no, not really! We were stuck on a bus for 9 hours. 5 hours of television, we are brain dead. We stay in Kayiseri and eat bread and cheese and talk about how this bread and this television are stupifying the people. Opium for the masses. ...
Babooshkas, the bus and a balloon trip
... need to get into it! We hopped the overnight bus to Goreme, headed to see the amazing landscapes and unnderground cities of Cappadocia at 9pm. I thought overnight bus meant you hopped on the bus and they drove overnight to get to your destination! Not in ...
Jill wins Wet T-Shirt Race to Cappadoccia
... the dark. It was cold but I had won the race. My 3 shirts hauled their sorry butts over the line after 9am. I didn't see them finish though as I was sound asleep in my new cave-like home recovering from the exhausting 12 hour dash across ...
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 ...