More pictures from Turkey

Another person would have been over it by now, but not me. Another person would have "moved on" to more "pressing" matters, like working on their 2005 taxes that they got an extension for & that are now due any second. Or even washing the dishes.
But I find looking at pictures from Cappadocia much more interesting. It's this beautiful region in south central Anatolia that has insane soft rock formations from erosion, where people started carving elaborate caves at least 5,000 years ago. And they still live in the dang things today!



The first town we got to was Urgup. This was the public parking lot.
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This was across the street from the parking lot.-->









Gree c liked the graphics on this electrical box.
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Danger! --->












<-- This was in Uchisar. They call it The Castle.









A closeup of the Castle. We were like, whoa, and then we had to have dinner and a drink at a place overlooking it, just to process it all. -->









<--Our favorite little town, Goreme.












Here's part of an insane looking valley filled with elaborate, interconnected cave churches, dining halls, all kinds of stuff, and living quaters.
A bunch of the early Christians used to hide out here. -->









<---We tended to like the iconoclast stuff the best. This image is what we call "The Chicken Roach." Does it represent the Debbil?










Here is St. Onuphrius, the bearded lady saint, after whom San Diego's famous surf spot San Onofre is named. S/he is also the patron saint of Mountain Man I'm told. -->
















<-- Ooh look, it's gree c's cute lil' cave room where we stayed.










Gree c's view out her cute lil' cave window. -->













Here is a valley of "fairy chimneys," as they are called. I think saint Simon and his friends lived in the monk towers up in there.
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<--This is Weenus Valley. It is about 2 inches from where we stayed in our cute lil' cave room. Well it was more of a cave suite, actually.











Another angle of Valley of the Weenus. --->










<--- This was on the road up from our place, the road that led to the overview of aforementioned Weenis Valley. It is a circular room with a giant grinding wheel in the middle, with a wooden thing to attach to the donkey or people who would walk around and around.









On our way out of the region we stopped back in Urgup to this Hamam to get a "Turkish bath." Somebody was very crusty and dusty. -->