(((Cappadocia Captured on Camera in Closed Captions)))

(((We just spent a week in Cappadocia, beautiful lunar like landscape, good food, friendly people, and other tourist friendly accoutrements. I’ve been traveling around for awhile now, so I’m running out of interest capturing blog ideas. Feel free to comment on how lame this entry is. By the way the title and content is not meant to trivialize those who are visually impaired. However it is slightly ironic that this is a photo heavy entry.)))
(Our week in Cappadocia started like our time in Eastern Turkey. Cold and snowy)
(but….
then….
ended....
up….
sunny)
(balancing rocks framing snow capped extinct volcano in the distance)
(balancing rocks formed by a volcanic eruption of heavy magma layer on top of silty weaker layer eroded over time creating the ‘balancing rock’ look)
(more phallic formations formed from volcanic eruption)
(valleys viewed from high above a mesa we climbed)
(views….
inside….
valley)
(Fairy chimney dwellings that dot the area. The right chimney is a church. The left one we climbed into)
(view to the east)
(view to the west)
(Old Greek fresco inside a different fairy chimney cave church)
(fairy chimney cave dwellings guarded by three phallic rock formations)
(detail of Turkish rugs outside a rug shop)
($6000 Turkish rug that Spotty rolled around in while stopping at a rug shop. Rug shop owner not too happy.)
(For $200, you can ride this balloon for 2 hours. Or you can photograph the balloon from below, like I did for free.)
(sunset tree)
(((((Dónde está Ché Pelotas?)))))