We've spent two days aroudn this place so far and it is truly wonderful. It is a wierd, wierd place. Apparently old monks came here for safety and built churches and houses in the soft rock, but they built the entrances five meters above the ground and added some very perilous-looking handholds for access. Shiz and I sepnt six hours walking around a goregous canyon yesterday thinking "These guys were totally fucking insane" I can't exaplin it, but you'll see when we get a chance to post pictures. Hopefully that will be in a couple of days.
Also, today is a milestone for us. 2oo days of travel! Yep, it has been 200 days since we started on this trip. We're going to a nice-ish restuarant for dinner tonight to celebrrate and for our daytime celebration we went to the underground city of Denrikuyu. Now, that palce is great. It is a city that apparently housed 30,000 people in its heyday and has ten stories, all underground. They had houses, meeting rooms, chruches, schools, stables, and even a winery, all subterranian. It felt like something out of a fantasy movie. Again, we had that vague sense of seeing a gnome or dwarf around the corner. I don't know what drove these old Turks to complete carving insanity (they must have been fierce rock climbers as well) and I would neer want to have lived in their society, but they left some truly unique stuff behind. I'm guessing that they did all this because they were between Europe and Asia and so got attack often, but who knows?
Either way, the place is great and you must go there.
Also, today is a milestone for us. 2oo days of travel! Yep, it has been 200 days since we started on this trip. We're going to a nice-ish restuarant for dinner tonight to celebrrate and for our daytime celebration we went to the underground city of Denrikuyu. Now, that palce is great. It is a city that apparently housed 30,000 people in its heyday and has ten stories, all underground. They had houses, meeting rooms, chruches, schools, stables, and even a winery, all subterranian. It felt like something out of a fantasy movie. Again, we had that vague sense of seeing a gnome or dwarf around the corner. I don't know what drove these old Turks to complete carving insanity (they must have been fierce rock climbers as well) and I would neer want to have lived in their society, but they left some truly unique stuff behind. I'm guessing that they did all this because they were between Europe and Asia and so got attack often, but who knows?
Either way, the place is great and you must go there.