Cappadocia, however, is basically just a listener who praises it after the tour. This was once an active area for volcanic eruptions. After the magma and rock ash condensed, the ground was raised by hundreds of meters. For millions of years, there have been wind and rain on the top and undercurrents eroding below, creating the entire earth into potholes, as if it had come to the surface of the moon.

Generally speaking, the famous attractions always make people feel that they are a little worse than they expected after traveling. However, cappadocia is basically just a few words of praise from the audience after the tour. This was once an active area for volcanic eruptions. After the magma and rock ash condensed, the ground was raised by hundreds of meters.

For millions of years, there have been wind and rain, and undercurrents erosion below, creating the entire land into a pothole, as if it has come to the surface of the moon. Because the stone is soft and easy to dig, many people have directly carved out rooms on the stone. Yun Luo lives in the youth hostel is transformed from such rooms, which is quite novel.

However, Yunluo has no windows - _ - Vs of all sizes are distributed around Goreme. He originally planned to go to the most popular redv&rosev, but after coming out of the openairmuseum, he saw a street sign indicating "zemiv" at an inconspicuous intersection, and then took out the lp and flipped it, saying "zemivvev". Hum?

Lovev’s pure classmates, please search for pictures by yourself.) How could you miss such a curious landscape? So I set off on the road happily. Later, when I returned to the youth hostel and looked at the map, I found that Zemiv and Lovev were obviously in two different directions, and lp would also cheat people -_-A fake lovevalle to eliminate excessive expectations.

Zemiv is quite quiet, with iconic evil mushrooms on the roadside from time to time, and magical. There are other weathered forms, probably the same national parks in Colorado, Utah, USA. The disadvantage of being too quiet is that they have not encountered one person along the way, and they cannot ask for directions.

The trail here is more hidden than the tontotrail that made Yun Luo grit his teeth in grand. There is no way to see the road at all. Only when you walk into a bush do you know that you have "presumably" gone wrong. You also have to pass through the tunnel below from time to time. You can only take the riverbed as a road for granted.

I don’t know how far the exit is, or even if there is an exit ahead, I can only keep going forward. Fortunately, V is V after all, and at least the direction is not wrong. Although it is the cold winter month, the grass on the ground is often covered with a layer of ice slag, and the entire valley is still green, and there are trees hanging with wild fruits pointing directly to the blue sky.

A touch of bright red adds a bit of warmth to the cold season. In this state, I suddenly heard the sound of car horns coming from above my head, which made me feel relieved. The sound that was irritating in the past became the best dose of stimulant this time, haha. As expected, the path in front of me gradually emerged.

More than 10 minutes later, Yunluo was able to stand on the road and look back at the zemiv that he had just walked. After getting out of the ground, after all efforts, Yunluo finally recognized that the towering castle in front of him must be the uchisarcastle. It turned out that Yunluo had already walked to another town without realizing it.

This castle is hollowed out from a whole piece of volcanic rock, so domineering. (Re-shoot at night) On the way to Uchisarcastle, there is a great viewing platform. Below is the PV locals carved various pigeon cages on the stones. Although Yun Luo doesn't know what they are going to raise pigeons now.

On the other side, you can see the town of Uchisar. Like Goreme, it is difficult to distinguish between all kinds of hideous rocks. In fact, I never expected to come to Uchisar in advance (the difference in recognition on P and the lack of maps that can be found online have made Yunluo not consider going to towns outside Goreme).

I was shocked at this time and I couldn't bear to sit on a hot air balloon in the morning. I couldn't watch the sunrise. Now I can just climb to the top to see the sunset. Although it is 200 meters lower than the balloon, there should be no big difference. When I saw the watch, it was less than 20 minutes away from the sunset (winter travel is miserable), so I quickly rushed to the roof with three steps in two steps.

The roof is as bumpy as expected, but there are few railings, which always makes people frightened. Looking into the distance, you will feel refreshed. Nearby is a stone forest with intertwined teeth, and the stone waves on the ground on all sides are rolling and surging. In the distance is the highest peak of the entire cappadocia: mountercyies.

The towering snow-capped mountains were dyed orange-red by the sunset, which was quite shocking. At this time, another tourist came, probably speaking Spanish. I couldn't understand it, but when I saw the lp in my hands, I smiled with each other. After that, Yun Luo and Nalan Shuqi were only concerned about emptying until the sunset closed the last beam of light. The night was accompanied by stars and lights covering the earth.

The next day I participated in Greenour, one of the things I went to ihlarav. To be fair, ihlarav is also spectacular, but it is naturally a small one compared to grand. A stream at the bottom of the valley that is not big or small is considered a bonus point. In general, it is not surprising, so I just mentioned it by the way.

It makes you unable to see goreme-goreme-Ankara: If the night train is just a rocky karst landform, it is beautiful, but it can be seen in many places. It is not particularly surprising. The charm of cappadocia lies in its unique cultural heritage. Christianity was just beginning to its origins and was persecuted by the Roman Empire at that time.

The early Christians who were unwilling to give up their faith traveled a long journey to this rarely visited place and had their own hiding place. Christianity, which had suffered hardships, finally ushered in the day to become the state religion in 312 AD. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. From the 7th century, the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire in this area was eroded by the Sassanid dynasty bit by bit.

Until the 11th century, cappadocia completely fell into Persia's hands, and Christianity once again became a heretic. Christians who were unwilling to give up continued to hide, building one hidden holy place after another in the huge rocks, which complemented the unique terrain of the local area. In modern times, it naturally became one of Turkey's two natural and cultural heritages.

In the 16th century, the powerful Ottoman Empire swept across Turkey. The craze for the construction of secret churches was over. However, even if Cappadocia was occupied, the Ottoman Empire could not destroy the many churches that were densely populated and hidden in the local area, so many treasures were preserved to this day.

It can be said that the history of cappadocia is like a Christian history of refuge, so the name of goreme comes from this - its original meaning is: to make you invisible. To see a church, the most ideal place is the openairmuseum next to goreme. Dozens of churches, large and small, are distributed here.

Many of them still retain exquisite murals from the 10th to 12th century, and still have bright colors. The doors are open at 8:30. If you want to experience them well before the tour groups of all sizes enter. You must strive to enter before 9:30. Although it is off-season, Yun Luo still saw the crowd like domestic scenic spots at around 10:00 - before entering the scenic spot.

The ruins of churches were already seen from stone pillars on the roadside. Although only the shape of the room was left, the form of the church could no longer be seen. To this day, people no longer know how sacred names the believers of those who had given these churches, and they could only give them nicknames such as apples, snakes, buttons, etc. according to the characteristics that can be seen now.

The lost name cannot hide the piety that has been passed down to this day. The last resting place for the believers was dug out on one side of the church. The coffin has long disappeared, leaving only a simple and vicissitudes of death. Although the stone caves are small, the structures they should have are complete, including the dining tables for eating. Herine, the interior decoration of the early grottoes was quite simple.

It was almost just outlined with monochromatic lines. However, people at that time had known to draw wet murals with lime water. More than 300 years earlier than the Italians' proud creation. Ara began to appear more complex patterns. Various patterns filled the entire space.

Thesnakechurch actually painted the famous St. George's Dragon Slayer, but the dragon was painted too much like a dragon, so the name of snake was passed down. Theapplechurchurch, the quality of the painting has taken a qualitative leap. This is gorgeous. The masterpiece 1,000 years ago is still full of warm breath today, shocking every stopper.

In fact, photography is strictly prohibited inside the church. Due to the off-season no one can take pictures all the way. I still haven’t figured out whether the flash will cause harm to the murals if the flash is turned off? After the applechurch, what is even more shocking is the only thedarkchurch in the scenic area that needs to collect tickets once again.

The church itself is taller than the other ones, and it looks very imposing from the outside. The whole church has only a small window. The long darkness has kept the murals in the church lifelike, which is the essence of Byzantine art. There is also the largest church in Goreme at the entrance of the scenic area. The nickname is churchofthebuckle.

Although it is not well preserved than the dark church, the architectural style is more neat and grand. In terms of the times, the murals in Cappadocia were several centuries later than Dunhuang, but they are still compared to the east and west. Similar murals were also seen in the greenour ihlarav the next day. When it comes to goreme, the most popular way of travel is to rely on tour.

Although Yunluo is a person who wants to try his best to avoid tours, he can only compromise in the reality of extremely scarce map resources. The most common ones are greenour and redtour. The latter is relatively unprofitable. In addition to ihlarav's hiking, greenour has two major highlights.

One is that there are about 40 large and small dungeons in the entire Cappadocia area of ​​derinkuyu Undergroundcity. As mentioned earlier, they were all digging by early Christians who escaped persecution. derinkuyu is the deepest one. Its original intention is to go deep wells, which penetrate more than twenty floors underground, and countless corridors winding to other dungeons, real tunnel warfare.

Even though only the top seven floors are now open, it is still enough to make people amazed. Imagine how the believers thousands of years ago spent hundreds of years in the darkness of unknown tonight, the power of faith is really powerful. Following the steps, deeper into the ground, the noise on the ground is gradually replaced by the faint sound of dripping water.

The tunnel is narrow and short. When you go in and out, you have to bend down and bow your head, just like humility before God. The complex structure is like a maze, and you don’t know where you are when you are. Although it seems to be similar everywhere, the entire dungeon strictly divides many areas such as living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, storage rooms, wineries, and even stables.

In addition to the need to go to the ground to replenish food every few months, it is completely enough to satisfy daily life. The living room is located at the intersection of many trails and is well-connected. A church is indispensable as a Christian. There should have been beautiful murals here, but unfortunately they are too wet and the murals have faded and unrecognizable.

Even the morgue where the corpse is temporarily placed is arranged. Return to the ground and you can't see the last highlight is that Sstery, a huge monastery built in the 13th century, hollowed out most of the mountain and hid in the mountains. I'm afraid that you may not be able to recognize it when you walk to your feet.

It is said to be the scene of Star Wars in the distance. For Yunluo, the monastery manager, seeing such a huge creature is undoubtedly excited to see chicken blood. In addition, countless natural or artificial paths in the monastery connect the chiseled stone chambers one by one, which adds the fun of jumping up and down.

Many stone stairs have collapsed and broken, and they can only climb up with hands and feet. The so-called paths are often only deep ditches that can accommodate one foot in width. They go up dozens of meters from the stone, and you can see abandoned caves all the way. Looking out from the stone, you can see the blue sky, and you can feel the breath of the Holy Spirit filling your whole body.

Going further up, when you come to a large platform, you will see the main rooms of the monastery. The double-layer classroom is very imposing, but you always feel depressed. What is the power of knowledge? Haha. Although it is simple, the door is still meticulously decorated. How patient and perseverance does a church with complex structure have to polish out such a majestic place.

The remains of the murals of that year can still be seen on the beams and pillars of the church. In fact, there are many worth seeing in the entire Cappadocia area, and it was too hasty to take a quick look at the flowers in two days. Later, a couple from Treasure Island I met at Ephesus said that they had been to Turkey 5 times and thought Cappadocia was the most wonderful thing.

Yunluo thought it made sense. The nine world heritage sites in Turkey. The one with the lowest popularity is this xanthos-letoon. What’s special is that it was once the ancient capital of lycia. However, Yunluo remembered that lycia was a very outstanding country. This country with a close relationship with Greece fought a battle with Greece (and won).

However, it ended up falling into Persian rule until Alexander liberated it. If you want to say that cultural achievements would be overshadowed in front of Greece. You have never understood the virtues here and how could it be successfully selected as a World Heritage Site. Later, I chatted with my friend, and my friend said: It was just a city-state in the Greek era. That was ancient Greece!

I suddenly realized that the ruins of the Roman period were still widely distributed, and there were very few ancient Greek ruins that could be found outside Greece, so I firmly decided to find out. I said that, but I was in trouble when doing my homework. I couldn't find it on this page, and all Turkish bus companies with websites did not have a car there.

I can't find a few travel notes. Even on the universal lp, the descriptions of these two places are less than one page in total. However, Yunluo doesn't believe in evil. Turkey, which has such a developed tourism career, won't be able to go to any of them. So I left the itinerary for this day with a nervous mood. I took the night bus directly to antalya from Goreme.

Because a travel note mentioned before that the car from antalya to fethiye may pass by xanthos. Another selfish intention is that even if there is no suitable train, you can temporarily change the content of the day to antalya. This famous city on the Mediterranean Sea should not disappoint. After arriving at the station, the first thing is to rush to the ticket office to inquire.

(Turkey bus companies are all doing their own business, and a row of ticket booths are spread out, so one by one has to ask about it). After all the efforts and text exchanges, I was surprised to find that there were really minibuses to xanthos in the local area, so I immediately decided to give up the antalya. Mediterranean and visit you later.

The minibus is running among the mountains and ridges, and the road is beautiful. Sometimes there are scenic spots of high gorges and flat lakes. Or there are towering snow-capped mountains. There are also two complementary and a smaller version of the glacier park? According to the information I found before, there are two roads from antalya to fethiye. One is a long line along the coastline. This line is passing xanthos. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!