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Final turkey tour
... you food and alcohol for 70lira ($35-40) and have 10 dancers, 5 men and 5 women, do a range of different traditional dancers from all around the regions of turkey, including the whirling dervish dancers (look it up) how they remain in their feet stumps me. It was really cool to see and I got dragged up to do a turkish conga line style of thing, then some traditional man dance to try and impress this old duck... I got knock back, not sure why? My moves were impeccable! Day 3 I ...
Green Tour
... into the cliff faces.
At the end we had lunch at the Bellisaro Restaurant which was also built over the river, very nice. We had a choice of main meals and the food was very nice.
By this time it was already about 3pm and we still had more to do. Our next stop was Selime monastry and this was another incredible place as it was the site that George Lucas wanted to use for Star Wars but the Turkish government wouldn't allow it so hence the reason it was ...
A hair raising experience
... robes. It was not at all the tourist dervish dancing you might see on tv, but a chance to see how deeply moving this ceremony is for them. The dervishes make a commitment not only to the ceremony itself, but to upholding certain mystic principles to guide their life which are things like treating others with kindness. I came away with a much deeper respect for what type of commitment it takes to be ...
Charismatic Cappadocia
... a little time to enjoy our beautiful room. We wandered out to look around and have dinner. It has been so hot in Turkey the whole time and today was really cold and windy. The balloon flights were cancelled that day so we were a little anxious that we would miss out
We were up at 3.15am after 3 hours sleep and picked up at 4 and taken to a large restaurant for breakfast with about 100 other people and then we waited to see if it was going ...
1,000 Feet Up, 1,000 Feet Down
... The first stop was the Underground City of Kaymakli. The 4th Century Christians built these amazing underground series of multilevel tunnels to escape their enemies. All the underground cities are connected, some many miles apart. They actually lived above ground in their cities, but when danger came, they all had secret passageways into the cave network. Tens of thousands of people could vanish into the ground below. The passageways were very tight ...