We drove from Izmir to Cappadocia last Thursday and back on Sunday and it's a hike. Ten hours in the car each way but well worth it. I'll let the photos speak for themselves at least for now.
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| After driving all day we got stopped to stretch just a few miles from our hotel. The view was absolutely breathtaking and it only got better from here as we explored cave houses, churches cut from solid rock and underground villages (cities?) that could provide shelter for up to 30,000 people. |
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| Fixer-upper, secluded, needs TLC but great views and no neighbors. |
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| Just glad to be out of the car. It was good to see central Turkey like that...once. |
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| It's hard to capture the huge frescoes that were painted on the walls of the better known cave churches over a thousand years ago. Painted on plaster by professionals from Istanbul and defaced by competing religions, they still glow and give a sense of how different life must have been |
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| Just one of hundreds of old cave churches, this one wasn't even on the map. |
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| OK, someone must have had a sense of humor even back then when they were scrambling up sheer rock walls to take care of their pigeons (this guy's "teeth" are pigeon houses carved into the rock) |
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| Our hotel, which wasn't officially a cave hotel but was made from 5 reconstructed houses built into the mountain. |
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| "Honeymoon Valley"... 18 years late. |
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