Showing posts with label Cappadocia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cappadocia. Show all posts

Friday, May 18, 2012

The Ancient Cave City of Cappadocia

Cappadocia was next on our list of things to do. We took an overnight bus there, and stayed in a cave hostel. The funnest part was just playing around in all the thousands of cave dwellings and touching the thousand year old paintings.


 

 
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We then found a large mountain of these caves off the beaten path that was completely abandoned. Keep in mind that I had a sprained ankle, but decided to climb this anyway (probably not the best decision I've ever made). At the top of the cliff, immediately after having scaled across a precarious ledge, disaster struck. I resprained my ankle. Wes ended up carrying me down the mountain (don't do stupid things, unless you have a great friend to save you). Then we had to bike back to the hostel, about 10k. Thankfully, the next day my ankle felt great...my theory is that I sprained it the opposite way, giving it some sort of balance.