Les Terrasses D'Uchisar

... he left it at a cafe and we went into some great cycling bits! hehehh you cant win them all. We saw some amazing little churches with ancient fresco in them, and there's loads of little patches of grape vines around... Me and Victor had a BBQ with a dude called Achmed in the evening up there, t was well good! Everyone left yesterday so I went on me tod to am underground city (they have a few round here) which was ...

... a calibrated circle of degrees- otherwise known as a 'Compass'. Thankfully on this occasion smoke signals were not necessary to warn the tribe of 'Homo Germanopithicus Touristus' that our imminent convergence on their Swedish made wagon was imminent and unavoidable- I cautioned Christina: "Eyes ahead, and for God's sake don't mention the War!" We past peacefully with only a salutory head-nod to give credit to their ...

... tons of small stairs, but with no rails at all, and you could fall down hundreds of feet. Very dangerous! But we climbed to the top and could see all the way across the Bosphurus to the other fort on the Asian side, which Mehmet also built, and to the bridge. It was very cool. The guy at the gate gave Lu a huge kiss, like so many people do here. After the fort, we walked back to Bebek right next to the Bosphurus. We saw lots of men fishing. One nice guy ...

... the Turkish driver obviously could not give. It was well past 10pm and we could still see the bright lights in the city of Istanbul. Tylenol PM worked its magic, and I slept until the sunrise. We stopped at Nevshir, a city that the travel guides and websites warned tourists not to get off. So I stayed glued to the seat, only to be relieved and really excited to see the crazy rock formations in Goreme! If creepy is the word ...

... 6 beds but I had it to myself. I can't imagine 6 people in there since there were only 2 dim light bulbs controlled by one switch over someone's bed. The room was a little musty but quite cool. I walked around a little to scope out the town. The area seems quite poor with pretty primitive living conditions. As bakground, Cappadocia is the name of the region in central Turkey, while we stayed in the town of Goreme. Cappadocia flourished between the 4th and 11th ...

... nearby and showed them the ladder. One of them immediately started to climb it and continued up some really worn-out stairs (so bad that they required him to slide back down on his butt since they were too dangerous to walk down). The other Aussie and I chickened out and didn't follow him up, though it sounds like we missed out on some incredible views from the top. We were only supposed to be at the monastery for 20 minutes, but that wasn't nearly ...