Fresco At Open Air Museum in Goreme

Fairy Towers

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September 12th 2008
The bus journey to the region of Cappadocia was unfortunate because of my spectacular miscalculation in travel time. I first travelled to the large city of Antalya with its multi-story, 150+ platform bus station but could only get a connecting bus to the village of Göreme (central in the Cappadocia region) at 16:00 that afternoon. That seemed feasible and I figured that we should arrive at around ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Cappadocia

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Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more