After a few relaxing days in Antalya I went to Göreme in the Cappadocia region. It is an location ideally suited for outdoor activities with the local attraction being all kinds of weird rock formations and pillars. And as if nature wasn't creative enough, people dug caves, flats and churches into many of these rocks, giving them a kind of “Swiss cheese” look. This all makes the area a big tourist attraction and almost every single “house” was either a cave hotel or cave pension, if not a shop or a restaurant. But being still in low season, the number of visitors were easily outnumbered by the number of hotels around. And yet, I met some interesting folks with interesting stories, like Jack, who met an Iranian on his trip that got kicked out of Iran for playing in a Metal band, and who is now planing to watch this man play the opening act at the Ankara Metal festival in Mid March. Or take Sasha, a crazy Dutchman, who is trying to reach Vietnam overland. He wants to travel via Pakistan but didn't know if he will be forced to take a police escort guarding him through the country. So you can imagine, I was in very good company and together we spend a couple of days roaming around in the bizarre Cappadocia landscape.
Exploring Cappadocia with Jack, Kris and Torben
Cappadocia at its finest, high up from the Uchisar rock castle
There was only one way to get out of this canyon and that was climbing up the steep walls. Thank goodness I was with Torben who lent me his arm to pull me up the tricky part.
Some of the rock carved churches have the most amazing frescoes
Exploring Cappadocia with Jack, Kris and Torben
Cappadocia at its finest, high up from the Uchisar rock castle
There was only one way to get out of this canyon and that was climbing up the steep walls. Thank goodness I was with Torben who lent me his arm to pull me up the tricky part.
Some of the rock carved churches have the most amazing frescoes
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