Cappadocia with OUGSME 2004

1. The trip to Cappadocia started in Istanbul - Blue Mosque.

2. Column in Hagia Sophia, a geological treasure trove.

3. Basilica Cistern, decorated with hundreds of suspended glass globes.

4. On the road to Cappadocia . Tuz Gölü - Salt Lake.

5. Ihlara Gorge.

6. Ihlara Gorge - cut through ignimbrites.

7. Ihlara Gorge - some 60 churches are carved into the rock.

8. Ihlara cave.

9. From Ihlara to Göreme, the first fairy chimneys, with Uchisar castle.

10. Pigeon Valley, so-called for the many rock-cut Pigeon holes.

11. Pigeon Valley detail.

12. Another view of Pigeon Valley.

13. Fairy chimneys.

14. Rock-cut house, still in use.

15. Typical landscape.

16. Open-air museum, Göreme.

17. Open-air museum, Göreme.

18: Chimneys.

19. Deverent Valley.

20. Deverent Valley.

21. Deverent Valley.

22. Red obsidian in roadside outcrop.

23: Red obsidian in roadside outcrop.

24. Faults in quarry wall.

25. Faults in quarry wall.

26. Thrust fault.

27. Maar.

28: Lake Nar - crater lake.

29. Gas bubbles rising in pool at Lake Nar.

30. Landscape dotted with pumice quarries.

31. Aladag range, part of Taurus mountains.

32. Aladag range.

33: The local children came to see the strangers.

34. The chimneys here give the valley its name.

35. Love Valley chimneys.

36. Love Valley chimneys.

37. Love Valley chimneys.

38: Not all formations are chimney-shaped.

39. Back in Istanbul, we take a ferry along the Bosphorus.

40. The new suspension bridge joining Europe to Asia.

41. Castle along the Bosphorus.

42. The Bosphorus is a very busy waterway.

43: A glimpse of the Black Sea.

44. A castle tops the cliffs on the Asian side.

45. The ferry stops at the last village on the Asian side.

46: Will the fortune-telling rabbit tell you that you will return to the Land of the Fairy Chimneys one day?

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