Cappadocia, Turkey

Brian in front of some big, uh, rocks...
Above the Rose Valley.
A very weird, wonderful landscape.
Ashlei, on top of the Cappadocian world.
Catherdrals carved from stone...

Cappadocia is one of the weirdest and coolest places that we have ever seen and been able to spend a few days wandering through. The landscape is dotted with formations that locally are referred to as "fairy chimnies". They're products of ancient vocanic eruptions that formed thousands of cones and cliffs that the poeple of the regions were able to carve out into homes. Later in history huge multi-leveled churches and cathedrals were carrved out as well. We were able to wander through many of them and it was, for a lack of a better phrase, really cool. Also in the region were carved underground cities - up to 30 stories deep! and we took a tour through one of those too. Our guesthouse was carved out of a "fairy chimney", so we got to sleep in one. That was pretty unique.