Exploring Cappadocia

Göreme - The city of strange rock formations

June 25th 2012
A long, long time ago, in a city far, far away, we woke up. Yes, today we left Istanbul behind us and this meant waking up much too early, already at 5:15 AM. The trip wasn't quite straightforward either, we had to take taxi to Taksim, bus to Sabiha Gökcen airport, fly to Kayseri airport, take taxi to Kayseri bus terminal, long distance bus to Avanos and final a local bus to Göreme. Even tho ... read more

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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

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Johanna & Leo

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According to fi.wikipedia.org: "An explorer (=tutkimusmatkailija) is a person who explores new areas by traveling there in person." Our nick came into being more as an internal joke, but it fits quite well to wikipedia's definition so we've kept it so far! :) Although we don't aspire to become a new Ferdinand Magellan our goal is still to travel around the world. We are leaving on our trip in June 2013 and are planning to return to Finland in August 2014. ... full info

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