Traveller's cave hotel Goreme

... about 60km in a forgotten valley. Here the people have been living in houses that have een carved out from the soft tuff stone until recently. There are as well some remainders of Armenian churches that can be explored.<br><br>Back through some lovely landscaped roads and we can finally retrieve the money for the balloon ride.<br><br>The evening ends with a lovely dinner - beforehand some beers as an apero on the terrasse.<br><br>A good day relaxing but a good introduction to the area

... or less a really big rock with a lookout on top with gorgeous views. We found a little sitting nook carved out of the rock and sat and looked over the countryside for a long time. Its the highest point in the region and you can see it from everywhere, so it was really cool to look at it that night from the patio at the hostel and know that we climbed it! <br> On our last night there we booked a 4-wheeler and had a guided tour through some of the nearby valleys. In ...

... had a lot of volcanoes and they laid a thick stratum of volcanic ashes on the region, after compaction they became soft rocks that were eroded by waters from the top down, forming those giant bamboo shoots in the valleys. They are easy to be hollowed out but once the surfaces of the new chambers were exposed to moisture in the air, some kind of chemical reaction happens and they will become reasonably hard in about 2 days. People liked to live in them because these caves offered them ...

... Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, etc.) and into Siberia, all the way across Asia, then on a ferry across the Pacific and across North America as well. They'd end up in NYC on their BMW roadsters. Clive claimed that a BMW was a real bike, a Harley was a nothing. I'll talk a Harley's character any day. Their plan at the time did not include a pass through Yellowstone. I told Clive I would definitely suggest that they try to make it down there, but it was great that they planned to ...

... and crumble but I manged to get over them for a great výew of the valley below and the sun was comýng out whých made ýt look even better. From the valley I headed over to Uchýsar whých gave me great výews over the regýon and ýt was nýce to see what you have just hýked and where you were stayýng from above. On the ay back to Goreme I went through another valley that no one else was ýn the rock formatýon was also really nýce goýng through and other tourýsts eýther whých was really nýce ...

... are quite nice. Then on to the Zelve Valley which would have been much nicer earlier in the day. We got there late and the light wasn't good. We didn' bother paying to visit more churches, they seam to look all the same. We walked back 3kms to the main road and waited for a bus with our new friends, 2 big dogs! The other day I took a tour. We first stopped at a panorama point over Goreme. Then we visited an 8 level underground city. Wow! There's no ...

... trouble, got a huge bottle of cold water (it was really hot) and settled in to wait at the bus stop. About 5mins after waiting, Dave saw a convertable Mercedes drive past and thought it was quiet cool. Then a few seconds later the same Mercedes reversed back up the road and a German/Turkish man and his family asked us if we wanted a lift. Dave looked at me to ask what I thought, only to see me walking towards the convertible! Neither of us had been in a ...

Well, we've hopefully just had the most expensive day of travelling...and none of it was in the spreadsheet!!!! Cause if there are many more like it, then we'll be selling off the house and the cat to fund it. But all worth it nonetheless (Shirl may not agree when she's shipped to the Chinese restaurant down the road). Things kicked off with some scooters and a trip around the Cappadocia region to check out some ...

... chairs and dust. I was pelted by small stones that rained down from the sky and everywhere on the terrace things were in chaos. Potted plants jumped off shelves, tablecloths took to the skies and amidst all this the owner's teenage son, Ahmed, was running around like a dervish trying to salvage swirling objects. After running into the kitchen myself we were able to watch the dusty tempest from behind the safety of the glass window. The sun was blotted out and the atmosphere was ...