Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --- Mark Twain

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Cappadocia 2

Some more pictures of Cappadonia.

Underground city - Gazimer underground City..

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Wine Celler - empty.

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In this time probably this kind of a place was probably needed. The room was 2x2 metres.

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Kitchen

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Seeing all this reminded me of the book I used to read many times during my school-years - The Ring of the Queen of Seeba (Sheba). Just this kind of underground towns I had imagined while reading the book. large halls and smaller passageways between them.

Next Göreme

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Hiking trail

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Here is a a whole mountain house costomed for living. Some walls and doors are fallen down but most of rooms are still fit for living there.

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View from the terrace.

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A place for firewood. A basin has been built on the right. Just now without water.

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Living room

Gõreme National Park

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Actually it is a long dinner-table.

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Ceiling paintings in the Chapels

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