Cappadocia In Brief

After spending some time in Istanbul I decided to head to Cappadocia in Turkey to see some broken stones and camels. The trip was quite long. I caught a bus at midnight and arrived in Cappadocia at 10am the next day. Here I was looking forward to going to the hotel to shower and sleep for a while but the tour guide decided that we should do some sighseeing and head to the hotel around 4pm. This of course didnt happen. We ended up at the hotel at 6:30pm where we had 45minutes to get dressed and go down for dinner before leaving to go to a mevlana show.

For all that dont know what a mevlana show is well basically its the spinning dervishes. You sit in a theatre and watch a bunch of guys spin on their toes for about an hour. What is the significance you may ask? Well this may take a while to explain and I cant be bothered typing it out so just ask me when you see me or go to yahoo and type " Spinning dervishes".

The show was amazing. Its quite breath taking seeing it live rather than seeing it on TV.
This Cappadocia tour was quite hectic as we were taken to a pottery factory, a wine factory, a diamond factory and a carpet and rug factory. Of course everything was a huge scam to rip you off.

The stones in Cappadocia is quite amazing. I havent seen stones like this. I have no idea how theses stones have been shaped like this. I spotted several camels along the way. You have to pay $2 to take a photo with a camel. Whats the world coming too honestly.

Asmali Konak - Most people know about this palace as they have watched the Turkish soapie or movie. It was quite exciting actually being inside the palace and being able to take pics of the rooms. Even though most of the rooms were closed we were running around madly taking photos. This caused a problem as we ended up missing the bus back to the hotel cuz we were 5 minutes late due to our photo session.

The turkish night - We went to a Turkish night called Yasar Baba. I have to say this was the best resturant I have been to in a long time. The entertainment was amazing. Turkish folk dancing, bellydancing, Kina gecesi show and much much more. Eventually everyone was drunk enough to get up and start dancing. A line dance was created which lead everyone outside to the front of the resturant were there was a huge bon fire happening. People danced in front of the fire with live instruments playing in the back ground. I cant say much more as the evening slowly became blurry....