The reason a lot of people come out to Cappadocia is for the rock formations.
Many of them are unusually shaped and it makes you wonder if aliens didn't do a bit of the
carving.
Cappadocia is a very large region of valleys, villages and towns.
#1: Goreme
I'm in Goreme right now and this makes a perfect base for lodging and to start my sightseeing
adventure.
It's walking distance from many great sights such as the Open Air museum, Love valley,
red valley and I can book my hot air balloon ride here.
. #2: Cave Hotels
#3: Open Air Museum
All the rocks in the alleys are made of volcanic ash, so it can crumble very easily.
The erosion gives it its shape.
Also you have many minerals which creates the colors in different parts of the terrain.
#4.
Red / Rose Valley
#5 Hot Air Balloon Ride
#6 Fairy Chimneys at Love Valley
These are Fairy Chimneys.
It's due to the pointed tops that are supposed to look like chimneys and here they are thriving
in Love Valley.
#7.
Uchisar Castle
Places like Uchisar Castle are manmade and which is the phenomenal thing.
You can walk around and explore those caves which is what I'm going to do now.
So come on . Let's see...
Anyone home?
Just checking.
So the material here is so porous and you can see how it crubles.
You can see how it gives away just when you touch it.
It took around one month to create one room.
Okay, so now I have to hike back home.
One of these trails or all of these trails are supposed to lead back home.
Should take around 45 minutes depending on your health.
#8.
Pigeon caves
These caves weren't only made to house people.
Some were made to house pigeons.
#9.
Derinkuyu Underground City
Cappadocia has a few underground cities but this is the largest.
There's seven subterranean levels to this city and it was a refuge for Christians who
were escaping persecution from Romans.
An entire city lived and raised livestock in these caves and walked these tunnels.
I was a little chicken so I let that couple go before me.
This is a dwarf's tunnel.
Oh my gosh, he wasn't kidding about that torch!
So here we are at the well shaft.
There was a well down here where they used to pull up water.
Up there is the ventilation area . These underground tunnels needed ventilation.
There is no way they could exist without air.
One more thing That's me blowing out smoke.
Hence the fingerless gloves.
#10 Sognali
Every where you look there's a photo waiting to be taken.
You can spend rolls and rolls of film here.
Every where The more you walk and hike and discover places the more you see.
Loving it.
There's all there's really cool hidden nooks and crannies.
These caves.
Some are very basic and some have a depth to them.
I feel like each piece that you see here is part of a greater story.
You just can't help but take photographs because you think it's really cool, and then you see
another photograph underneath it or around the corner and that's the beauty of this place.
The sides of these rocks are smoothed out due to erosion, the weather, climate.
When you look at how grainy and dusty things are...
You can feel it in the air, there's a little more dust than anything and I think that's
why I'm developing a cold now.
My throat is starting to feel it.
It's starting to take that in.
It took them one month to build a room . That's one month.