Sarnic Hotel Urgup

Kavaklionu Mah.Avanos Cad. Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey

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Prehistorical city tour of Cappadocia

A travel blog entry by travel.geek

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... host we watched a demonstration from a lady who actually made the carpet, thread by thread. It was pretty amazing how a big beautiful carpet was actually hand made by these ladies, the host told us that it depends on the size of the carpet that they can measure the production time, he pointed us to a hall room size carpet and told us that it took 10 months to make. Good golly. All of the 'carpet artists’ were women, as they have smaller hands and have ...

Land of the Penises

A travel blog entry by resiststatusquo

... think out loud or not it still crosses their minds) think some of them resemble penises (there are different shapes of Fairy Chimneys). We continued on to see one of 200 underground cities. It was AMAZING and I thought it would have been rad to see them when they were up and running a thousand years ago. There are 8 floors of rooms and crevices for the imagination and archeologists to make up what each was used for. From there, we drove to a ...

Favorite day so far in Turkey -- wow!

A travel blog entry by atlantakevin

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... held to a minimum, usually just simple symbols such as the depiction of the cross. After this period, new churches were dug into the rocks and they were richly decorated with colorful frescoes. Unfortunately the churches with the best frescoes were not allowing pictures due to the effect of flashes, but trust me, the quality of work in some easily competed with the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican and ...

Fairy Chimney's Galore!!!

A travel blog entry by abalzer

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... to the US I received a second offer of marriage of four packs of “Camel” cigarettes. I think you’re worth more than both of those offers so I turned them down on your behalf.

Oh I heard this quote and I remembered it just for my dad

“A man without a belly is like an apartment without a balcony”

now in case you don’t get it (all you blonds out there) ...

Sunrise Hot Air Balloon Ride and Ihlara Canyon

A travel blog entry by kimberly_r

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... one of the reps and he told me what group I would be in and which mini-bus I needed to get on. He informed me that I had been upgraded to the "King's" flight and it would last one and a half hours vs the one hour flight I had booked.

I joined the rest of my assigned group and we were driven to the taking off point for the balloon. I was amazed of how many balloons were in the air that morning and was told there were usually around 75 or ...