CAPPADOCIA . . . TURKEY . . . UNDERGROUND CITY

WAKING UP WITH A BIT OF A RAKI INDUCED HANG OVER WE MISSIONED TO ONE OF THE MANY UNDERGROUND CITIES SCATTERED AROUND CAPPADOCIA. IM A LITTLE CLAUSTROPHOBIC SO BEING 80 METERS UNDERGROUND IN A LITTLE TUNNEL WAS NOT THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY TRIP. AS U CAN IMAGINE THE AIR DOWN THERE WAS HARD TO BREATHE AND IT WAS BELLOW FREEZING TEMPERATURE. PEOPLE USE TO LIVE UNDERGROUND IN HIDING FOR UPTO 5 MONTHS. FIRSTLY FROM THE HARD WINTERS AND ATTACK FROM WILD ANIMALS AND LATER BY CHRISTIANS WHO ESCAPED PERSECUTION OF THE ROMAN SOLDIERS. AFTER THE UNDERGROUND CITY WE WENT FOR A LONG WALK AND FINISHED UP AT THE GRAN CHURCH. ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PLACES IVE EVER BEEN . . . WE WERE LUCKY BECAUSE THERE WASNT MANY PEOPLE THERE, SO WE HAD A REALLY GOOD CHANCE TO EXPLORE ITS LITTLE HIDDEN ROOMS. ON THE BUS RIDE BACK TO TOWN WE STOPPED OF AT A REALLY NICE VIEW POINT. IT ACTUALLY BEGAN TO SNOW A LITTLE BIT WHEN WE STOPPED BUT I WAS STILL CAMERA HAPPY AND CONTINUED TO SHOOT . . . WHEN WE GOT BACK TO TOWN WE WARMED UP WITH SOME APPLE TEA AND HOPPED ABOARD ANOTHER NIGHT BUS TO HEAD SOUTH WERE THERE ARE ISOLATED WHITE SAND BEACHES WITH THE CLEAREST TURQUOISE WATERS AND TREE HOUSES TO SLEEP IN!!!