Gallery: Cappadocia, Turkey
Karie on Feb 11th 2008 03:50 pm
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- Inside our Cave Hotel at Kismet Cave House
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- On our first stop in Goreme, Cappadocia
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- Karie about to take a bite of the Sahlep ice cream, which included orchids as one of the primary ingredients
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- Our group carefully walking (or skating) up the icy trail
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- Karie climbing up to the Church of the 3 Crosses
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- Karie (after quite a hike) in the Church of the 3 Crosses
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- Inside the cave church
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- One of the many frescos with the eyes scratched out
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- Inside the cave church
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- Navigating through the small doorways in the church
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- Pigeon Holes
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- An artist painting traditional Cappadocia pottery
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- This pottery workshop was built deep into the cave
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- Inflating our balloon
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- Take off!
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- Overlooking Göreme Canyon
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- From the hot air balloon over Göreme, Cappadocia
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- Karie taking in the view from the hot air balloon
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- Fairy Chimneys as far as you can see!
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- Karie laughing as the operators attempted to land the balloon
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- Dozens of caves carved into the mountainside
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- This grave still had a skeleton inside
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- Inside the "Dark Church"
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- You could see frescos under frescos
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- A fresco of the Last Supper in the Dark Church
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- "Flinstones, Meet the Flinstones...."
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- Entrance to another Cave Church
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- The road splits the many fairy chimneys
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- Karie hiking through the snow
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- On our hike through the canyon
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- Scott taking a break for lunch after our hike
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- Our lunch - really really fresh trout!
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- After lunch... just skin & bones remain
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- The Kismet Cave House Group (with owner, family & other guests)
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- Overlooking one of the many valleys with fairy chimneys
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- Our shadow in the sunset over the valley
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- Inside one of the hundreds of underground cities
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- Ancient baptismal in the underground city
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- Karie in the missionary school inside the underground city
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- A rolling door to secure the underground city
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- Scott demonstrating the criminal punishment devices in the underground city
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- Looking down one of the wells that supplied the underground city
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- The Selime Monastary
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- Scott at the Monestary... or an extra in Star Wars?
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- Scott pretending he's Indiana Jones
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- Walking through one of the many tunnels
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- The largest "Cave Cathedral" we saw
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- The city of Urgup, Cappadocia
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