Cave in

Trip Start Apr 27, 2008
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Trip End May 24, 2008


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Flag of Turkey  , Cappadocia,
Monday, May 5, 2008

We travelled over night from Istanbul to Cappadocia. The bus journey was a bit hard on the bottom - while bus travel in Turkey is big business we nust have got  the worst bus.

Cappadocia is an area of sensor assault. The area is is known for 100's of year of people living in caves - and they still do. We stayed in an up market version of what has for years been accomodation for people. The oginal vast cave networks including complete underground cities were build by early christians as a place of escape from invading armies.

The room we stayed in at Cappadocia had been carved out of the hillside. The walls are solid rough volcanic stone. If you rub it with your hand very course sand will come off. Here are the photo's more test later
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sueandsam
sueandsam on May 6, 2008 at 06:02AM

hello
wow that place looks awsome. i'd feel nevous being inside a cave. sam wouldn't though. i don't like the idea of an earth quake hitting and being stuck in a cave. but i guess they don't get quakes all the time over there do they. there was an earthquake here, but it was really short. so short i can't even remember if it really happened or if i dremt it. i'll have to check geonet. good luck for the next place. bring back earrings. and bag of some sort.

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