Thirteen hours in the bus just to arrive in time to enjoy the sunrise with the magnificent view of Cappadocia where we decide for Goreme as our base camp for the next week.
Rent a car is our best option and with the good Chilean company of Ale and Maria we explore at our pace the vast and hiding surroundings of Goreme.
Painted churches inside stone carved caves, stıll standing Caravanserai's that use to be resting places for the merchants travellings the ancient Silk Road, amazing landscapes, unbelievable rock shapes making you wonder how are they still standing and how amazingly people made of them their home, are some of the reasons why Cappadocia is so famous.
Temperatures of -10 degrees Celsius keep most of the travellers away from this place at this time of year, except the eager and numerous Korean and Japanese , all with their modern and tinny gadgets and their noisy plastic bags that they seem not to hear at six in the morning when they wake up to join the tour that will take them to see the sunrise.
We walk for a week the winding valleys, all of them with different english names like Pigeon, Red or Rose not forgetting the famous Love valley with its obvious shapes of the rock formations to be seen on it.
Done with the cold, the ice and the snow but thanking for the seven sunny days ın a row that we had. After checking the calendar we realized that our time in Turkey is running out and it is time for us to keep going East.
Unfortunately we have to say goodbye to some good friends that we made in Goreme.
All the best to Ale, Marıa and Françoıse.
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