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Architecture By: Wind and Water
Cappadocia: Surreal Is The Word

March 23rd 2009
How does one prepare herself for Cappadocia? On our way to Goreme, we stopped by some souvenir shops and restaurants where posters and postcards of the rock chapels and fairy chimneys introduced us to this surreal landscape of capped pinnacles in warm reds and golden browns. Four hours across the Konya plain, passing the long Hasan mountain range, until we made another stop for what was more th ... read more
Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Cappadocia » Göreme

Turkish Flag 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
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