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Exploding Postal Scales
(Oct 08 '05)
"I just couldn't fathom how an REI Four-Man Half Dome tent could spontaneously combust"
We have stepped off of Mother Earth and landed on a alien planet. It looks like someone transplanted Bryce Canyon ...
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Land of the beautiful horses
(Oct 06 '06)
"It was hard to see the cards through the cigarette smoke..."
As the bus roared down the winding mountain road, in the distance I could make out the rock caves that used to be home to thousands of people ...
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Cave dwelling in Cappadochia
(May 09 '07)
My last day in Istanbul I took a small tour up the Bosporus just far enough to get a chill and see a perfect vision of a mideaval fortification.
I decided to take the city railway system to the ...
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The Fairy Chimneys of Cappadocia
(Jul 04 '07)
We arrived to Goreme, located in the heart of Cappadocia, and were pleasantly surprised by the approach to the village from the dry lumpy landscape. Here there is a valley of the fantastic fairy ...
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Cappodocia: Fly Me to the Moon
(Aug 24 '07)
"A final highlight of our trip back home was seeing a "circumcision caravan.""
After my first week of orientation at
the School of English Language, Bilkent University arranged for all of
the new ...
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so beautiful
(Jun 22 '05)
Captivating caves - Cappadocia
(Apr 28 '06)
Travels wıth Balthazar
(May 09 '07)
So at this point, a week into the music tour, I'm realizing the downside of traveling as a pack of 16. Mostly, I hate riding on a tour bus and getting sucked into that group mentality of wanting ...
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Hot air ballooning over Cappadocia
(Aug 05 '07)
We had a 4.30am start in order to get us to the take off position in time to catch the right winds. It took awhile to get the balloons unpacked and get air into them. Once in the air it was remarkable ...
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Goreme Open Air Museum
(Aug 06 '07)
We went to visit the Goreme Open Air Museum and checked out several rock cut churches with well-preserved frescos. Unfortunately a couple of the ones we wanted to see were shut, I’m guessing they we ...
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Recent Blogs for Goreme
Fly Me to the Moon
(Nov 07 '07)
By Christina
Wednesday the 7th of November found us on our first domestic flight in Turkey, on Turkish Airlines from Istanbul to Kayseri and, other than Abby learning how to say “barf bag” in yet ...
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Byzantine Churchs in the Ihlara Valley
(Aug 04 '07)
We really enjoyed the Ihlara valley, especially because we could go off discovering by ourselves. The valley was step and narrow gorge cut into volcanic rock with sheer cliffs either side. During the ...
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Cappadocia: Days 3 & 4
(Sep 02 '07)
"Also known as the Valley of the Fairy Chimneys, due to the odd-shaped eroded tuff (solidified volcanic ash) formations, the region of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia is truly distinctive..."

















