A stroll through Pidgeon Valley
Trip Start
Mar 08, 2008
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Trip End
Oct 02, 2008
Cappadocia,
Turkey
Saturday, September 6, 2008
we've just came back - alive - from a stroll through Pidgeon Valley........ yes, the many Christians that made houses in these many fairy chimney rocks around here used to sell the pidgeon manure....... so the result: pidgeons are cool in Kapadokia!
anyhoo, made our way down to what looked like a very nice and easy valley to walk...... we were trying to make our way back from the Ushiser Castle to our village, Göreme...... and all went well..... an English couple got stuck on the wrong side of the ravine so we went back and guided them to our side of the ravine..... we all kept walking happily chatting with our two new friends, Will and Emily, for another 2 minutes until we got to a point where we had to pick from a couple dodgy looking paths...... both seemed to lead to a certain death.........
Jimmy........
. that ravine was about 25 meters deep.......... enter the Turkish farmer who just happened to be around at the right place, right time....... we look at him..... he looks at us...... he says: "there are two dangerous ways and a normal way to Göreme...... which one do you want?"..........." normal one, please".......... "follow me" he says.........
we back-tracked a bit and he starts going up........ it all looks good and logic........ then he leads us up a hill that had some tiny and old looking steps in de middle of it........ he was walking up like he was a Turkish Spider-Man......... we were crawling up with our hands........ at that moment i was thankful for those few hours spent at indoor rock climbing back in Perth.........
"he lead us to the top of a ridge!" was all that Will said...... we found out later that he suffers from vertigo..... and at the top of that hill was a drop of about 18 meters and some loose gravel to add to the excitment....... the Turkish Spider-Man was walking back and forward on that ridge smilling.......... there were a couple of people down on the other side that just stood there in anticipation to see which one of us would drop first, i bet......
Pidgeon Valley from pidgeon's point of view
. Will was wearing some very slippery shoes........ James and I were wearing sandals.......... off we went....... after all, it was only a few steps across that ridge without slipping and breaking 30 bones............ too easy.......
after we climbed down, he lead us throught a small narrow tunnel and throught a few bigger ones........
glad we picked the normal way....... imagine the dangerous? it would have involved jumping onto a pidgeon back, avoiding repeated attacks by the eagle we saw flying around a bit earlier and then, just as the pidgeon starts to come down, grab the nearest tree branch while skillfully avoiding falling into the spiky desert bushes....... or so i imagine........
so that's Pidgeon Valley done....... we're off to Rose Valley next......... sounds lovely, doesn't it??
