Imagine yourself standing in front of a giant earth pyramid with gaping holes in it that look like windows and doors to a netherworld. Now pan your head from left to right and see yourself surrounded ...

2002-08-04 04:00:00 PDT Urgup, Turkey-- It's long after midnight when we arrive in the town of Urgup, in the badlands of central Turkey, and a woman named Kismet is leading us down a path to our ...

Night descends on this desolate valley as the yatsi - the final Muslim prayer call from the muezzin - ricochets across the gorge. A donkey brays, its hooves giving off a staccato clop-clop as it heads ...

If Cappadocia, Turkey had an official postcard, it’d likely be the rainbow of hot air balloons floating above its conical “fairy chimney” rock formations at sunrise when the sky is tinted pink. Most ...

Photo taken on July 9, 2012 shows a view of the rock cave site in Cappadocia, Turkey. UNESCO listed the unique area of Goreme-Cappadocia as both a cultural and natural World Heritage Site in ...

For my three-day stay in Cappadocia, I am staying at Okhtai’s place: a cavern hotel in the small town of Goreme, which is a great base to explore this fascinating part of Anatolia in central Turkey.

Cappadocia is in central Anatolia, the Asian portion of Turkey. Its history dates back thousands of years to the Hittites and before. It enjoyed a brief period of independence about 2,000 years ago.

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