Cappadocia - Fairy chinneys

Cappadocia is a region of central Turkey famous for it "fairy chimneys". It is an amazing combination of geological beauty and interesting history! What happened was thousands of years ago there were three volcanoes that erupted. Then erosion washed away the looser layers of soil leaving these unusual cone shaped structures. Some still have their heavier top stones but others do not. They were actually called "fairy chimneys" because back in the first and second century a.d. Christians went there to escape the Romans that punished then. They carved out homes into these large rock formations and cliffs because the rock is easy to carve. Then when merchants were traveling on the Silk Road (which goes right through thus area) the traders though the peoples were fairies living the the rock chimneys because they seemed so small. There are tons of cave churches here with amazing architecture and some even have some of their frescoes on the wall. Many saints were supposed to have visited or lived here.
This land Is just magical looking. This is wher George Lucas got some of his first ideas fir Star wars (even though it was filmed in Tunisia in Africa).
We stayed in the main town of Goreme that is actually filled with houses that at fairy chimneys. We stated in an actual super nice cave hotel. Thus place was like an all inclusive (they had a pool, amazing restaurant, travel agency and were super helpful). We went on two tour and a couple of hikes on the two days we were there. The hikes were pretty hard because the trails are not well marked once you get in them. It was an adventure and as you know there are two sides to every story. By the end if our time in cappadocia I was done with hiking!! But the hotel was so nice! They let us come in at 4:30am and sleep and even have breakfast that day. I also told Micah we should not stay at this place because it was to expensive, thankful he dud not listen to me this time.
I really want to try to get a pucture up but it is hard with the iPod touch.
This us the website of where we stayed www.kelebekhotel.com. It has some good pictures!