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| The town of Goreme, Turkey where Cappadocia is. The city still uses the caves and rocks for hotels, homes, and places of business. |
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| A hotel in Cappadocia. |
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| A hotel in Cappadocia. |
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| Tiny stools and table for tea. |
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| Tourists use a stairway to see the inside of an ancient church. |
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| Carved rooms in the rocks. |
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| Entrance to a church. |
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| The inside of an ancient church still has brightly painted frescoes. |
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| Most of the eyes and faces have been scraped off the paintings. One opinion is that the Qur’an prohibits images of humans in temples, so the images were purposely destroyed. |
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| Looking out from a cave doorway. |
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| A Byzantine style cross. |
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| From the outside, one would never guess this was inside a cave hole. |
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| Rugs drying on a rooftop that overlook the city. |
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| A hot air balloon passes our view of the moon in the early hours of the morning. |
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| A tunnel of a huge underground city used by Christians in hiding from the Romans. |
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| Rooms of the underground city. |
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| Inside the underground city. |
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| A view of our drive through the streets of Cappadocia. |
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| A view of the volcano that helped create the unusual landscape of Cappadocia. Mt. Erciyes (also known as Mt. Argaeus) |
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| A splash of color in the monotone landscape. |
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| Dwellings. |
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| Tourists climb into the caves. |
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| It is said that the volcanic ash is what forms the rock underneath and the caps are made from volcanic lava which is much harder. The rock underneath erodes forming these structures. |
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| Natural art. |
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| A perspective on the size. |
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| Volcanic lava on top of volcanic ash rock. |
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| El Nazar Church |
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| The inside of El Nazar church |
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| Uchisar Castle |
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| Mr Erciyes - the volcano that helped form the landscape of Cappadocia. |
