Day 4: The 12 hour overnight bus ride wasn’t so bad. Poor Robin stumbled out of the bus in her sleep at a 5 minute stop in who knows where, and found a toilet. The Kent bus seems to only stop at the most awful bus stations. We arrive Goreme semi-awake, and find our hotel. The owner is really great, always willing to sit and chat, and suggest things to do. We get breakfast, and head to the open air museum. We meet a lot of other tourists, Russian, Dutch, Canadian, and Korean. Afterwards we take a hike in the Zimi Valley, which is not marked very well. We make a lot of wrong turns, and find tended gardens in what seems like miles from anywhere. It’s a bit hard to appreciate the beauty when you
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