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Caves in Capadocia

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March 11th 2006
This was like a trip back to the stone age - I stayed in a cave ala the Flintstones in a town called Goreme. The hostel was a series of rooms that had been cut into the soft rock of the surrounding hills to make rooms. This style of building was used throughout Capadocia to build cities underground which the locals used as defensive homes. They had rooms for livestock, churches and kitchens. The w ... 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