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Chris and Heather in a Penile Colony
We arrived in Cappedocia in Central Turkey yesterday. We are staying at an amazing guest house built into the rock hills here. It is essentially a Cave house in an older part of the city where such houses were common until the government kicked everyone out in the 1980's and put them in modern safe housing complexes. This one has been redone big …
The highs and lows of traveling in Turkey
... They used air shafts for ventilation and had intricate ways to drop goods down from up above so that they could live, eat and worship all below ground. Some of the passageways were so tight that you almost had to crawl to get through and the steps were incredibly steep. They also contained a ridiculous number of steps -- we must have done at least 500 while we were there. I ...
Goreme day 2
... rugs made today, with a free
lunch thrown in (of course we are under no obligation to buy anything, but
somehow I expect there will be a bit of salesman ship going on, I am of two
minds whether to buy one here or wait until Iran
I didnt do the hotair balloons as I wanted to save this expeirience so that Anne and I could do this together, maybe not in Turkey, but in Egypt, but maybe if I ever come back here it will happen then
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Chapter Eleven - A Day in Cappadocia
... we snooze on the long drive back to Göreme. We make a mandatory stop at an Onyx Factory, but I’m more interested in the surrounding farm where there are fields of pumpkins and the potato crop is being collected by local women (the men are probably resting at the local coffee shop).
On arrival back in Göreme, we pick up our bags from the hotel, enjoying snacks and drinks at a café by the bus stop. Our overnight bus leaves at 8:30 pm. ...
Onto the tourist trail of Turkey
... next, onyx, nope not for us either. Last try, ceramics, okay, maybe just a little bit of ceramics, only because they are so beautiful and handmade.
Cappadocia was a key area on the tourist trail of Turkey, so why not increase the price, dumb tourists will pay, but not this little chicken. When browsing through a few shops, we asked the prices of some items and commented that they were cheaper in Istanbul, the man then replied, 'Well go back to Istanbul, leave my store ...
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