Cave hotel room

Cappadoccia

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May 10th 2008
We left Osmaniye after exchanging gifts with our hosts there. I had almost enough gear to put together a full Turkish police uniform. The ride to Cappadoccia was much less strenuous than the previous day's one. The secondary highway we rode on took us through plains from which we could see some stunning snow capped mountain ranges and through a succession of villages that still looked like the ... 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