View from Convento de Cristo once a Templar stronghold

Friday, November 17, 2017

While in Istanbul, we took a one-day (a very loooong day) side trip to Cappadocia.  Cappadocia is the coolest place.  Absolutely other worldly.  It's an area in southern Turkey that was created by two huge volcanic eruptions, some millions of years ago, and erosion that followed that left behind formations called Fairy Chimneys.  Ancient cultures dug into them and built homes, towns and even cities.  Early Christians used them as hide-outs during their persecution by Rome in the 400's. 

We bought a day package and were picked up at our hotel at 4:30ish.  From there we went to the airport, had an hour and a half flight, another transport of an hour to Cappadocia's nearest town where we were dropped off at a travel/tourist office.  This place is remote.  Our guide picked us up in a mini bus with a dozen other tourists, all Turkish, and off we went.  We spent the day going from site to site, getting half Turkish half English descriptions of the areas.  Lunch was in a little town built partially into these formations.  Hotels and private home and apartment "buildings" are half modern, half ancient.




Of course there were the prerequisite sellers of tourist trinkets and all that jazz but the experience was definitely unique.

xxoo me

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