
Leaving Konya was as painful as getting in. I was determined to use that tram to get out of town but finding it took a long time even though it was only a few minutes walk away. I was told by the hotel guy that I had to take bus so I went to the bus stop in front of the hotel and tried to ask someone but no one could speak english or understand my broken turk, until one man laughed at me and told me to walk before taking off (but not saying in which direction).
Trying again to snatch information from these overly nice turks I ended up finding the 2 women from the hotel (those who mistook me for a turk) who showed me the way. I was just 2 minutes away from it... I eventually found the tram and managed to reach the bus station. This little adventure wouldn't even have made it to this blog in previous months. It's the kind of stuff that happens all the time. Yet it put me again in a very dark mood for the whole day. I realized one more time that I needed a break from serious
Full Text Entry: Fungi or Phallus? The debate rages on. The only thing for sure is that if I was a giant, I'd watch carefully where I sit around here.
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Ma nouvelle destination! Je ne savais vraiment pas qu'il y avait une autre vallée des pénis que celle du parc Maisonneuve ; ). Que d'émotions! Pour ce qui est de la raison des sols rouges et blancs alternés, c'est surement un changement important de climat. Le rouge provient souvent du fer et des déserts et le blanc du CaCO3 et des océans... Ce qui semble très pertinent vu l'emplacement du site. Les océanographes aussi peuvent répondre ; ).
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Rock cut MosqueThere's only one rock cut mosque, because it's hard to find a cliff that faces the mecca and the christians had already taken all the good spots.
Tricky passageLook at the frost on the ground. The rock was slippery because of it and it made the crossing quite dangerous. But alas, I survived.
CavusinThis was inhabited until the 70s. It was abandonned because it was deemed "unsafe"
Rose valleyNot too sure what caused the rocks below a certain level to be red and those above to be white. Where's a geologist when you need one?
GoremeThere's stuff like this all over the village. That used to be a Roman castle apparently.
Random pictureParrot in a gas station. Of course, what was I thinking.
TunnelThis is where early christians would escape to the other side of hte mountain if they were caught in the cavechurch by the romans.
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Ma nouvelle destination! Je ne savais vraiment pas qu'il y avait une autre vallée des pénis que celle du parc Maisonneuve ; ). Que d'émotions! Pour ce qui est de la raison des sols rouges et blancs alternés, c'est surement un changement important de climat. Le rouge provient souvent du fer et des déserts et le blanc du CaCO3 et des océans... Ce qui semble très pertinent vu l'emplacement du site. Les océanographes aussi peuvent répondre ; ).
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