Cappadocia 2: The Red Tour

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August 12th 2011

Published: August 18th 2011

When we went walking around the town of Goreme, we were intrigued to see the variety of cave houses, many of them amalgams of both human and fairy work. We were also impressed with the prevalence of solar hot water heating (we were told electricity is very expensive here) and the town was like time travel all in one place, with caves/cars/satellite dishes/hot air balloons/giant Mercedes tour buses... Read Full Entry

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Tall poppy

How long would this upstart be allowed to stand in Australia?

Triple headed chimney

Phil spotted a fairy chicken

Can you see it? What does it mean when someone sees chickens everywhere?

Camel at fairy valley zoo

OK, so can you spot the camel??

More cave dwellings

Artisan at work

This artisan's beautiful work answered the question "What can a backpacker buy for her sisters?"

Hopeful potter

One young Turkish tourist volunteered to try his hand at an old-fashioned potters wheel, after the ceramics master had given the tour group a demonstration.

Ceramics painters at work

Their work was so fine and detailed, they would stop to rest their eyes.

Ceramics 1

Ceramics 2

Ceramics 3

Ancient church, world heritage site

Pigeon heaven

Uchisar Castle

This castle is on the highest point in Cappadocia. Climbing to the top of it had been removed from the tour because some tourists had died of heart attacks doing the climb. I was glad for the reprieve!

Room for a guest!

This picture didn't make it through on the last blog, but I wanted you to see the addition to our cave hotel room, so here it is. I loved the tapestry on the walls.

18th August 2011

Michelle Cavanagh
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Beautiful Ceramics
This all looks so interesting and the ceramics are so beautiful. It reminds me of when we were in a similar factory in Vietnam where I very nearly bought some beautiful pots etc. Needless to say Kev talked me out of it - what is it with these men!! M xx

6th September 2011

fadia
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nice picture
very very nice picture

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