Cappadocia

by on August 3, 2007 at 7:03 am in Travels | Permalink

Cappadocia in central Turkey is highly recommended.  Imagine the Moab if it had been inhabited for 4000 years by a succession of Hittites, Christians fleeing Romans and Persians, Greeks and Turks and you have some idea.

These faerie chimneys exist in the thousands and some are still inhabited.  One fellow showed me around his chimney house.  More in the extension.
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Chris Meisenzahl August 3, 2007 at 7:19 am

Great pics! I never realized those existed.

shawn August 3, 2007 at 8:24 am

..the scale of those is deceiving. I had an idea that it was maybe 6-12′ tall…then I saw “one fellow showed me around his chimney house”…then I noticed the tree at the base. My mind still sees it at 10′ tall, but now it’s inhabited by tiny people with tiny trees outside.

eweininger August 3, 2007 at 9:52 am

One of the most amazing experiences my wife and I had in Cappadocia was during a hike through a large field of these conic structures. At one point, off the beaten track, we came across one with a ladder leaning against it. Upon climbing up about 10 or 12 feet, we entered a small, carved out room. On the wall was a very old iconic painting of the Virgin and Son. It was impossible for us to date, of course, but stylistically it was very much “pre-Renaissance”, and at least roughly similar to wall paintings we had seen in well-preserved conic Churches in Goreme. There was a great deal of graffiti scratched into it–saying, I imagine, “So and so was here” in Turkish. I still have a picture of it, somewhere.

Don’t miss the underground cities around Urgup, if you haven’t seem them already.

Alex Tabarrok August 3, 2007 at 10:23 am

Sorry for the absence of scale. The mounds are big, people live in them. What you are seeing is windows. The trees are normal.

Yan Li August 3, 2007 at 12:31 pm

How do people come down from the top?

Teller August 3, 2007 at 6:14 pm

“Oh, all right. The Cappadocians!”

Alan Brown August 6, 2007 at 2:39 pm

That’s way up, but as long as the elevator is working…

NeedleFactory August 9, 2007 at 8:21 pm

I agree with Bruce. I googled for “Cappadocia”, then clicked Google’s ‘Images’ link, and found pictures to confirm the large size of the “faerie chimneys.” But how to explain the house in the background? Either (a) the foreground is a sand castle built like a chimney rock, or is a miniature chimney rock sculpted to look like a larger one, or (b) the photo is a composite. Where’d you get this picture, Alex?

Ayzen Erenel September 18, 2007 at 3:13 pm

Guys, there is no conspiracy. Everything is real in Cappadocia. Why don’t you plan a trip to Cappadocia? To see the reality. I am fun of Cappadocia. You cannot imagine without seeing the region. If you need any help about planning a trip you can send me an e-mail.
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