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Fairy Chimneys and Whirling Dervishes
During our stay in Goreme, our guesthouse room was a cave. No, we were not pretending to be the Flintstones. In the Cappadocia region of Turkey that is best known for its natural rock formations, humans have been doing this for centuries.
Around 4th century AD, cave dwellings became a place of refuge for early Christians fleeing Roman persecution. They settled within the lunar-like landscape and burrowed their houses and churches into sandstone ...
Cappodocia - anyone for a balloon flight?
... from Istanbul will take you 10 hours, from Fethiye 12 hours... We weren't keen to spend a sleepless night on the bus and then face a day of site-seeing, so we took the easy way out and flew.
So after our magical cruise, we hopped on a bus for 4 hours to Antayla, then to the airport, where we entertained ourselves watching movies for a few hours before our 11pm flight. Unfortunately our plane was delayed by 45 minutes, which meant that we finally flew into Kayseri closer to ...
Of Fairies and Horses
... bed.
The next morning I decided I’d be spontaneously athletic and do a hike of the Rose Valley. A steep climb of old abandoned caves. I put on my runners, packed a backpack with extra water bottles and trotted down to Safak to grab some food to fuel my excursion. Beckoning me over, Ali was sitting in my spot from the day before with one of his waitresses, Krista, another Melbournian. She had worked at the cafe the summer before and had started dating ...
Cappadocia
... open air museum which is an incredible Christian monetary established by St Basil carved out of the rock face. Countless chapels, kitchens and sleeping quarters litter the valley. Inside several of the chapels were some of the earliest paintings of Jesus, Mary and the disciples. We also visited one of several underground cities in the region These vast networks of tunnels and room were dug by the early Christians to evade capture by invading Muslim ...
A bird's eye view
... picture of in this blog is somewhere between 8 to 10 metres high -all carved out of the sandstone cliffs and formations.
It wasn't all inside and in the dark - we were out in the open walking on high plateaus and then down through the valleys where we got well and truly muddy as we followed the water courses.
Lunch was a welcome break and a good time to fuel up - chicken salad, a bowl of pickled all sorts (not liquorice!) ...
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