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September 10th 2008
Published: September 13th 2008
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"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it." - Rudyard Kipling 1st of Elul arrived (September 1st in the Turkish calendar ) and with it also the 1st of Ramadan and the Moslem world entered a different phase, the holy month of Ramazan (Ramadan in Turkish ) The Muslims are expected to follow the 5 ‘pillars’ of Islam, one of them is keeping the fast of Rama... Read Full Entry



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we tried driving the “rose valley walk”. As you can see it is ot really meant to be driven on :)
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view point
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snail rock formation at Dervent valley
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Dervent valley walk
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back street in Avanos city
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Honey Valley
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Honey Valley
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old city of Chenushin
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outside our beautiful pension room at Goreme village
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outside our beautiful pension room at Goreme village
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at sunrise the skies fill with balloons
Underground city of Derinkuyu Underground city of Derinkuyu
Underground city of Derinkuyu

a city from inhabited before roman times (until Byzantine times) that could hold 10,000 people underground for months. The city goes down 8 stories down. This is a sliding door between floor 2 and 3 to protect the dwellers from attackers
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Underground city of Derinkuyu

we went down hundreds of stairs all the way to the bottom of the city
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Underground city of Derinkuyu

outside the Byzantine church on the 6th floor below ground.
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Guzelyurt

whenever Liya sees farm animals we stop and take a closer look
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Guzelyurt -underground city

not as touristy as the city in Derinkuyu. We had to crawl between rooms and floors. We had the place to ourselves
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Guzelyurt – underground city

the girls going down into a 3m shaft to go down to the 3rd floor below ground
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Liya preparing to go to the underground city



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