sunrise over Goreme

Floating above fairy chimneys in Cappadocia (or so I should have been)

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August 17th 2008
Sleeping in a bus station was definitely not on my list of things to do whilst in Turkey (as adventurous as I would like to be) but hopefully last night was the first and the last! There was supposed to a connecting bus from Ankara to Cappadocia but when we arrived in Ankara at 3am we were told that there was no bus to Cappadocia until 9am which meant having to wait at the station for 6 hours! ... 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