Uchisar Boutique Kaya Hotel

... org/w iki/Kappadokien (German)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Cappadocia (English)

The afternoon we use to finally visit the Göreme Open Air museum, where a good selection of the rock churches are found in a not ...

... departed this morning can as well be observed how they to the todays ride.

The walk down leads through some tunnels and through abandoned fields where delicious grapes and nuts can be collected.

In the hotel we wait for the arrival of Anita and Philıpp who have been collecting Lilli's motorbike in Istanbul. They arrived Saturday late night and departed Sunday morning, after Nejat a good Turkish friend has passed on the bike from the ...

... held my nerve petty much) it sounded like the whole place was caving in, just from my rucksack scarping the ceiling! But the echoing was 'mense, I ended up wandering about singing away and then ran into a couple of people and had to stop. But I had it all to myself for the most part which was ace! Anyway, I'm going to make the most of my last day in Cappadocia rather than sit around doing this blogging malarkey. Chau.

... most 'shots' by one full 'F Stop'. When I got back to my cave I sorted through my 'shots' and deleted those which were not good. There was no need for me to paint my days experience on my cave wall with red ochre- Instead I 'uploaded' them onto this 'site' using the DELL, with its pentium processor and ADSL 'connection'. But now I am getting the yawns and have to check into the cave that I sleep in. It is opposite the ...

... cool! Then we went to the Gorme Open Air museum, where we saw lots more churches in caves. It was so much fun to climb on the rocks and explore them. And we had Turkish ice cream, which is really strange but delicious. The guy twirls it on a stick like a pizza, then puts it on the cone. He was really funny. Tonight we are watching the sun set over the cave houses and trying to find my sister's panties, which the dog who lives at the hotel stole from our room!

... room, off we went to the Green Tour. A 15-person van picked us up from the pension and took us to a bus, the size of the overnight bus, filled with tourists from Spain, France, Turkey, and wherever else. Our tour guide spoke Turkish and English. We first went to Pigeon Valley, where we could see the U-something castle, some trees decorated with hundreds of the evil-eye charms and potteries, and merangue-shaped rocks ...

... in the basalt allow the much softer tuff to be eroded and washed away. Fairy chimneys are formed where a small cap or boulder of the original basalt remains, and protects a cone of tuff beneath it from erosion. Eventually, the tuff will be undercut to the extent that the cap falls off, and the remaining cone is then quickly eroded. The people of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia Region carved out the soft tuff to form houses, churches and ...

... from the States... from our old neighborhood... We picked them up at the train station... watching them emerge from their train compartment... exhausted after a long and languid overnight ride through the mountains... bringing them back to our apartment and allowing them to "land" and recuperate felt like repaying an old debt... After a few ...

... town carved into fairy chimneys. This town was populated until 1952 when it was deemed unsafe and everyone was required to move. Some of the buildings are closed off so no one can enter, but most of them are open to explore. My favorite part was a tunnel connecting one side of town to the other. There were also a couple of churches and a mosque, also carved into the fairy chimneys. It would have been much easier to explore if there hadn't been so much snow ...

... them on the counter in a sort of queue. It turned out that the bags were full of their own ingredients. The shop offered a service for the locals where they were able to bring their own ingredients, and for the price of the bread alone (about 30 kurush - 25 cents) they could top it and bake it in the oven - a community oven! Bringing your own ingredients saved you the 4 lira that you would have to pay if you bought a pide from the shop already made.