Avanos and Urgup
October 13th 2012 13 0ctober 2012
We visited two of the nearby towns today.
Avanos is on the Kizilimak (Red River) from which it extracts the clay to make the pottery for which it is well known. We visited several of the pottery shops many of which were in caves and had demonstrations of pieces being thrown and decorated.
Urgup is set in a valley with honeycombed cliffs all about it. We walked ar
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