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    cappadocia-first day

    Saturday, August 11th, 2007

    we arrived in cappadocia, this thing is really something else. Half Oblio land, half giant phalluses land (probably depend on your perspective 🙂 )

    we are staying in a nice hotel with a great view of goreme.

    prepare yourselves for lots and lots of pictures

    saturday in the morning we visited the goreme open air museum with it’s 10th century carved monasteries.

    (as always, click on the pictures to see them larger)

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    here is me as oblio 🙂

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    in the afternoon we took the bike for a spin around the neighboring villages

    uchisar, which offers a wonderful panorama of the whole area:

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    zelve and dervent valley to see the sunset (the rock formations, change colours throughout the day from white to grey to red)

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    dervent2.jpg dervent3.jpg goreme9.jpg

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    and finally we went back to the hotel on the twisty narrow cobblestone streets

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    meeting bikers

    Saturday, August 11th, 2007

    in hatussa we met mario (?) an italian traveling on a125cc vespa round turkey

    vespa

    in goreme we met robert on it’s way to syria and jordan on a BMW R100 GS/PD

    robert

    and in Avanos we met an Englishman on a Transalp going to Mongolia