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Goreme to Konya
Hot air ballooning is big business here in Cappadocia. Every morning at dawn, you can see the sky covered with dozens of them, each carrying a minimum of eight sightseers, paying at least $125 US each for an hour flight. More than half of my travel companions have taken the ride, and they said it was spectacular to see Cappadocia from the air at sun rise. You don't serious think I was going up there, do you?
We are now heading back west, towards the ...
Sille
... covered in blood who looked like he’d been in a horrific car accident, turns out they were filming a movie in the area and it was all makeup
- met the foreman of a $350k ancient church restoration and got an afterhours tour in which we could take photos, the foreman was quite nervous about getting caught taking tourists in and we ended up locked inside for an extra 30mins waiting for other people to leave the area
Anyway , check out the photos, ...
A Question For You.....
When is the LAST time you did something for the FIRST time?
In these days of uncertainty for so many, I think we easily get stuck in a comfort zone from which we rarely escape. I recently had read the question above somewhere and decided to make that part of my mantra for this trip; to push myself and do things I wouldn't normally take the time to do. Going on this long of a trip by myself was certainly the first, then joining ...
On the road again
I didn't know what to expect today with a new guide and new traveling companions. The guide from my two days in Cappadocia showed up at 8am to start the trip. This guide is a nice man but a bit difficult to understand. We picked up the other two people at a different hotel. Paul and Diana are from Jamaica. Paul has always lived there and Diana is from Canada but lived in England ...
Underground City
... mystic. Also on the site was a mosque and a Dervish lodge of the Mevlevi order of the whirling dervishes. This centre was used for educating and teaching the Dervishers. In 1927 the site was turned into a museum. The sarcophagos of Mevlana is under the green dome with coffins of his family nearby.
After checking into the hotel we were soon taking a walk to get some dinner ...