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 dancing)

Took the public bus today about 40km out to see a cool underground city today http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu I took a little video inside despite the low light... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid =58356167052411981&hl=en

Göreme (nee Matiana, nee Avcilar) - Pronounced 'goremay', it means unseen. Center of the Cappadocia (means land of well-bred horses) region. Area is famous for its rock-cut dwellings and 'fairy chimneys'. The fairy chimneys appear to be mushroom topped pillars of rock. Soft volcanic tuff has been sculpted over millennia into fantastic shapes by ...

Tuesday (Oct 23) The overnight bus trip went surprisingly well, I was actually able to get some sleep. I did have the Turkish man sitting next to me try and have a conversation with me in Turkish, and with my newly acquired Turkish phrasebook (I lost my last one) we were able to have a very primitive conversation. If I interpreted correctly I th...

After 2 days lazying around in a hammock on the beach in Olympos, I headed north to the center of the country, a place called Cappadoccia. Everyone says you must visit Cappadoccia but I never understood why until I got there. Being there is like expieriencing what it must be like walking around Mars. You truely feel as though you are on a differ...

What a waste of a day .... Had far too much Cappodocian vino last night and woke up with a massive hangover - Ben and Flo weren't looking to good either and I spent the day in bed trying to recover!

What may stand out most vividly in my memory of the first Star Wars film is the group of devilish, cloaked jawas wearing dollar-store flashlights for eyes. Who knew that their surreal moon-caves were nestled dreamily in the vast lunar-landscape of Cappadocia, a desert region in central Turkey? An even lesser known fact about Göreme, the main tou...

14.04.05, Goereme, Turkey Also...am 3.5. fliege ich fuer 29 Euronen von Antalya nach Berlin...Es lebe der Billigflug. Hat wer was wo ich in Berlin Uebernachten kann? Bye Frank 11.04.05, Goereme, Turkey Goereme ist cool...schaut euch mal die Bilder im Album an. Viel Tuffsteinzeugs mıt Wohnungen innendrin. Maerchenlandschaft ala Alice im Wunderlan...