Whaaat? Fifth post already?!
That's FAST.
We were SUPPOSED to ride the hot air balloon on the fifth day but the weather was being a pms-ing psycho beetch so that's why we can't ride the hot air balloon on that day. :(
Luckily the horrible weather snapped out of her pms and allowed us to go for the hot air balloon ride the next day. I'll blog about that later in the next post. And don't worry because I have more than enough photos to satisfy my readers. :D
Meanwhile, here are some photos of the bunnies beside the hotel's car park to take your mind of things.
Cuter than the soft toy bunnies you have. :D
I love the warm sunlight effect in this photo. (:
That's going on someone's wish-list, I knew it!!
Cappadocia is unique city because everywhere you go, you'll see rock formations, I'm not joking. It's true!
Cappadocia's history is interesting and I recommend you to read it up here. For more complicated information, click here.
Fine if you're lazy, just look at the photos. ==
The rock formations you're going to see later on are the results of volcanic activities and the harsh weather conditions. According to Cihan, the temperature during summer in Cappadocia can be around 40 degrees in the morning and then drop to around negative at night, just like a desert.
Can you see the rock formations due to erosions?
Don't worry if you can't because you'll come across more photos of them in this post.
The first place we visited in Cappadocia was Turquoiseland (a place that sells a lot of turquoises obviously). Turquoise necklaces, turquoise earrings, turquoise rings, turquoise bracelets, turquoise anklets, turquoise pendants and turquoise you name it!
Frankly speaking, I'm not a fan of turquoise because it's blue not shiny even though it's a precious stone.
Me love ONLY shiny stones. :D
Guess what? There was free assessable wireless!
It was good news for some of us!! :) But bad news for me because I left my iTouch in the bus. T__T
Luckily my brother was kind enough to lend me his iTouch. While everyone was taking their time browsing the collection of turquoise jewellery, me and the others were desperately trying to get a good internet connection to update our Facebook's status! :O
You should have seen the look on our faces while we updated our status. -.-
We left Turquoiseland and just outside the building the scenery was pleasant enough for a couple of photos. Not to forget the icy wind was incredibly strong!
This place is called the Pigeon Valley because outdated dinosaurs ancient people (people without handphones and internet) used to keep their pigeons here.
Tree of good luck. That blue eye thingy is for good luck.
*zooms in* Closer view of the Pigeon Valley.
Fairy chimneys.
A few thousand million years ago, fairies used to live in them and that's why it's called the fairy chimneys!
Okay fine. These fairy chimneys are formed as a result of erosions over the years.
Read more about the fairy chimneys here if you don't mind (don't worry it's just a short passage).
(:
With Mrs. Lee, as you can see the wind was really strong.
Tree full of vases.
We left the Pigeon Valley and head off to the Goreme Open Air Museum.
Before that, we stopped for a little while at a little souvenir shop next to a public toilet. Opposite the shop/toilet was the magnificent view of Cappadocia, and of course the vain people started camwhoring. :)
This camel has a foul stench, even I can't stand it!
Fairy chimneys plus the bright bright sun.
That same smelly camel.
I wonder who can be daring enough to ride it?
The Kuching-ians and the KL-ians! :)
Back row from the left: Sarah, Isaac, Joel, my brother, Huimin and my other brother.
Front row from left: Eugene, Huixin, little boy Danial, little boy Danial's mom, me, my sister and Faiz.
The rest couldn't make it up here because the hill was very steep.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Only the fittest among the fits can make it up there. :P
Ain't Cappadocia unique?
Definitely something you won't see everyday, unless you're living/migrating there.
I am a sucker for blue skies. T___T
And we continued our journey to the museum. This Goreme Open Air Museum is a complex of medieval painted cave churches carved out by Orthodox monks.There are more than 10 cave churches in this open air museum, each dating back to a few hundred years ago. Cave churches are churches built in caves.
More information. click here. :)
Turkish bath. Fancy one?
People who lived here a few hundred years ago must have lived in caves.
It's the only logical reason.
Waiting to go into the Apple Church since there's another group inside.
Don't ask me why it's called the Apple Church because I don't know.
Byzantine frescoes inside the Apple Church.
The view from the entrance of the church. Love it!
St. Babara's Chapel.
The dinosaur like monster in the middle represents evil.
I'm not sure about the chicken though...
Heading towards the other church.
The frescoe inside The Snake Church showing Saint Theodore and Saint George slaying a dragon (snake).
Fresco of Saint Helena and Emperor Constantine.
Fresco of Saint Onuphrius.
Visiting the nunnery.
Storage room.
View from the top of the nunnery.
Dining room complete with a dining table.
I don't know what that rectangle door like thingy was for...
So just take photo there. ==
My hostages!
Just kidding.
Finished the tour and heading back to the bus at the car park a few thousand kilometres metres away.
But before we get into the bus, we did some souvenir shopping.
Hand woven necklaces.. Nice!
Hand woven stuff.
Rows and rows of pretty lamps in one of the shop.
We had Turkish ice-cream and my dad bought the chocolate one for me and I didn't finish it because chocolate reminds me of poo I don't like chocolate ice-cream.
Ashley's husbandssss Turkish ice-cream people posing in front of their stall.
It took us about ten minutes to walk from the museum to the car park.
Then we head off to our restaurant for lunch. Our restaurant was a unique one because it was an underground cave-like restaurant. Normally I don't take photos of the restaurant but for this restaurant, it was a must! :D
The name of the restaurant is Uranos Sarikaya, whatever that means.
Looks more like a top secret military base than a restaurant. :P
The eagle-like statue in front of the restaurant.
The place to chill in the restaurant.
Very arabian.
The inside of the restaurant was HUGE!
HUGEST restaurant ever! :)
Chilli flakes.
Appetizer was ------ SOUP, again.
Huixin posing for my camera while waiting for the main course.
Our waiter.
Tomato pasta, not so yummy.
Our entertainer. He was playing a traditional Turkish musical instrument that looks like a Guzhen.
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Our main course, barbecued trout!
After lunch, we went carpet shopping.
The place to dye the silk threads. Turkey is also famous for it's silk.
Turkish silk is white-ish while Chinese silk is yellow-ish.
Beethoven looking guy demonstrating how to harvest silk from the cocoons of the silkworm.
And someone demonstrated how to to weave a carpet.
The process is long and tiring and I pity those who weave carpets for a living!
They actually have to tie a lot different type of knots on the thread to form the pattern!! :O
Then we watched a carpet show.
Silk on silk, silk on cotton, wool on silk etc etc.
I don't really care though.
Decorations on the wall.
I like this photo. :)
It was taken outside the building when we were on our way to the bus.
After that, we explored The Underground City of Kaymakli. This city used to be a place for the Early Christians to escape from the Pagans, Romans, and Arab invaders. The early Christians were treated poorly and the best place to seek refuge was in this underground city. The Hittites were the first to carve this city. When the early Christians came, they enlarged the city so that more people can seek refuge in it.
Exploring the underground city was super fun! :D
The entrance to the underground city.
Now, it's the tall people who are suffering. :D
The short ones do not have to watch their head in this chamber.
:D :D :D
The narrow tunnel leading to another chamber.
I had to literally bend my body until my head is the same height as my butt to walk through this tunnel without banging my head. -___-
Probably this was the point where Cihan scared the crap outta me. T______T
I was right behind my sister who was right behind Cihan (as you can see from the photo) and they were moving faster and faster until they were out of sight (the reason he can manoeuvre so fast in the tunnel was because he comes here every week). As for my sister, she obviously ran and was in a much better position than mine. Me, being the first time here and was in an awkward position to walk and had a heavy dslr strapped around my neck, had trouble moving fast in the tunnel.
I was being pretty cautious not to bang my head on anything unlike Mrs. Lee (she banged her head four times in the same tunnel!). Can't blame her for not being flexible! I kesian her you know...
Hmmm.. Where was I?
Ah, yes. Tunnel part.
Innocent me had no choice but to move slowly and steadily until I reach the end of the tunnel. While doing so, I was thinking about zombies and monsters and bats and skeletons and gorilla and black momoks living in this place.
I got kinda paranoid since no one else was in front of me.
The someone behind me was worse than me because he/she was waaaay behind me and was slowing down the people behind him/her.
Being alone in a narrow tunnel is scary okay?!
It was quite dim and the damn tunnel was so long! I kept moving and at last, I saw an opening. The word 'Yay!' was repeating several million times in my head after knowing that the tunnel was ending.
AND THEN OUT OF A SUDDEN A HAND FROM NOWHERE GRABBED MY WRIST!!!!
HOLY COW I NEARLY HAD A COMA!
I screamed ever so loudly in the tunnel until the people at the back heard me, including my brother. He told me later on that a few people from the group were actually smirking at the back and wondering what was happening in front! ==
That was the scariest thing that happened to me in the tunnel!
If you were me would you scream? Probably you won't because you know what is going to happen.
At first I thought it was some zombie or monster or momok but when I turned my head to look at the hand I realized that the hand was Cihan's (our local tour guide) hand. -.-
He was being merciless and started chuckling at my panicky/shocked reaction!!!!
I think he didn't expect me to scream that loud because I saw him startle. Good for him!
And I banged my head twice in the tunnel. ==
Men's toilet. Place for the warrioirs to store their weapons.
Humans used to cook food in this hole. ==
I wouldn't eat the food they cook even if I'm starving.
Deep down underground. :)
Complicated tunnels everywhere.
And that was the last photo of the underground city.
We went back to our Dinler Hotel to have dinner around 7pm.
After that, we had free WiFi to use! :D
Huixin, Zane, my brothers, my sister and me gathered at the little sitting room just near our rooms, next to the lifts. The WiFi signal there was the strongest, that's why.
As we were busy with the internet, the lift opened and Cihan came out of it and went to his room. We found out later that Cihan is staying in the hotel room just opposite mine.
It was still Facebook for us and chatting for some people. This time Cihan came out of his room and we asked him what was he up to. He replied us that he is going disco. ==
He scared me twice on that day and I screamed twice. I wanted to scare him back but he was so calm that it was impossible to scare him!
He went down and then I had a brilliant idea. :D
I ran to my room and took the note pad and pencil provided by the hotel to write some scare mails to Cihan. I told Huixin and my siblings about my brilliant idea and they all (excluding Zane and my brother who were talking about jail breaking iPods) agreed to do it.
Meanwhile, Zane told us that he saw Cihan earlier that evening in the barber shop downstairs. He was not having a haircut but was having a shave. -___________-
It was sooooooo funny writing the scare mails. Huixin drew a few stickman version of him and quoted him the disco freak/hairy tour guide!
DAYUMM THE WHOLE PROCESS WAS SO FUNNY!
We were all in fits of laughter when we read what we wrote.
The contents of the letters are:
Hairy tour guide, disco freak, we're coming to scare you tonight/tomorrow, stickman drawings of Cihan, bombs, spiders, ballooons, cockroaches, evil eyes, more doodles of him, hearts, scary, boo, retarded drawings of us..... Get the picture?
My scare mail was the one with the drawing of a gigantic (if compared to a normal cockroach) black cockroach with the 'IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW, THIS IS A COCKROACH!' written below it. :D
No photos of the process because we were too eager to finish it! T____T
It was more like a cute scare mail raher than a scary scare mail. ==
Before we went to bed, we sealed the letters in an envelope from the hotel and slid it underneath the door of his room with hopes that he will see it when he comes back from his disco-ing.
That was fantastically FUN and memorable! :D :D :D :D :D
Wait for the next post to know what's going to happen next. :)
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