Gunes House Hotel Side

... I had limits. I probably could have gotten myself into trouble trying to get up to some of the higher caves. It really is amazing how much of this is open to the public with no real safety measures in place, but it would be near impossible to idiot-proof every single cave. I would be interested to know how many people get hurt in the area in a summer. <br><br>The last stop on our tour was definitely the highlight. We were told it was an ...

... through a wh&#305;rl&#305;ng dance and s&#305;ng&#305;ng. Each part of the&#305;r r&#305;tual s&#305;gnals a subm&#305;ss&#305;on (wh&#305;ch &#305;s what Islam means) - the Suf&#305; bel&#305;eve that Allah l&#305;ves w&#305;th&#305;n and through the&#305;r wh&#305;rl&#305;ng dance, they can connect w&#305;th God. W&#305;th r&#305;ght hand open up to Allah and left turned down to people, they channel Allah's mercy and love - we're attend&#305;ng a Suf&#305; meet&#305;ng on our ...

... to eat our lunch during the day, during ramadon and really we were hiding from the scary little boys! they were creeping us out but they followed us into the unfinished building we were hiding in so we left to the road to hitch and they followed and grabbed our butts it was kind of scary 10 boys on motorcycles surrounding you grabbing your asses, so we had to throw rocks at them. then more came. but finally we were free. <br><br>when we got another ...

... 8217; hot air balloon. It was amazing and totally worth the 4:05 a.m. wake-up call. Balloons fly in the early a.m. only, in order to catch a good wind and also so that we can see the sun rise.<br><br>Riding in a balloon is a very comfortable way to experience heights, even if one is, like me, innately afraid of being in the air. Despite the fact that I&#8217;ve been slowing growing out of this phobia over the last 7+ years, through flying more, riding on Ferris ...

... were doing the exact same tour with a different tour company. Funny. There would be two more friends at Fat Boys that night.<br><br>It was about a 30 minute drive to the Underground City, during which time our comical 23 year old tour guide got to know everyone on the bus, making introductions and finding out where we were all from and stuff. He cracked a lot of jokes and said a lot of very un-PC things. He called the guy from Japan Samuri... But probably the funniest ...

... We arrive at the hotel and are shown to our room. The room is a bit small but comfortable, so we get organized and then return to the office to talk to Faruk about the best options for visiting Cappadocia. Faruk offers us tea as we settle onto the carpet covered couch in his office. After telling him the areas that we want to visit, and seeking his advice, we agreed on a balloon ride on the morning of the 18th, a tour of the ...

... all the luggage came crashing down off of it onto the tarmac.  They then proceeded to throw the luggage, piece by piece on the exterior conveyor belt which then fed it to the waiting mob. This was the first of 5 carts to be unloaded from the plane before ours. I could still see all of our luggage sitting on other carts next to our plane.   I decided to relax. After a one hour shuttle bus ride through the depressing outskirts of Kayseir ...

This is just a brief entry today. Cappadocia Day was yesterday followed by Turk&#305;sh N&#305;ght. The sights in Cappadocia are &#305;ncredible. Underground cities, volcanic formations, and views that have been descr&#305;bed as The Grand Canyon on acid ...

SO, ýnto Turkey and our fýrst stop was a lovely bush camp next to a reservo&#305;r. Of course, after all the hassle we went through gett&#305;ng &#305;nto Turkey, &#305;t was only reasonable for us to get completely troll&#305;ed as soon as we were clear of the border... So arr&#305;v&#305;ng at the lake we all dove stra&#305;ght &#305;n to f&#305;nd th&#305;ck, gelat&#305;nous mud a good 10 &#305;nches deep on the bottom, and our sw&#305;m rap&#305;dly escalated ...

... lots of bad stories about men trying to break into places they were staying in other parts of the world, being followed, being grabbed, etc. so maybe it isn't all that easy being pretty. That was a late night...out 'til almost 5am. The Aussie girls said I should stay and I was enjoying Olympos so that pretty much was enough reason to extend my stay there. The next few days were spent at the beach during the afternoon, Turkmen Pension in the evening for World Cup ...