Soaring over an exotic landscape as part of a gently migrating herd of over a hundred ballons.
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| Disembarking
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A gentle hike out from Goreme and then up into the Rose Valley and Red Valley area, including a couple of rock-cut churches.
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| Rock cut churches + rock spire
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| View over Rose Valley / Red valley area
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| Hacli Kilise rock cut church
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| Kolonlu Kilise (Church of the Columns)
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| Stone labeled as "Stone Door"
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| Üzümlü Kilise (Derinkuyu old Greek Church)
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| Church entrance
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| Pillar which can be turned by hand, like a prayer wheel.
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This is a group of related 11th to 13th c rock carved churches. Some have good murals, but suffer from a fairly arbitrary "no photos" rule.
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| Karanlik Kilise (Dark Church) ??
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Yılanlı Kilise (Snake Church)
St George a Snake (Dragon), and ???
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| St Onuphrius behind a palm tree
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| Refectory of the Church of the Sandals
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| Refectory of the Church of the Sandals
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| Refectory of the Church of the Sandals
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| Elmalı Kilise (Apple Church)
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| Elmalı Kilise (Apple Church)
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| Elmalı Kilise (Apple Church)
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| Elmalı Kilise (Apple Church)
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| Elmalı Kilise (Apple Church)
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| St Basil Chapel
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| St Basil Chapel
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| Tokalı Kilise (Buckle Church). "No Photos"
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| Tokalı Kilise (Buckle Church)
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| Tokalı Kilise (Buckle Church)
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| Dumy Police car. It's well engineered!
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| Dumy Police car.
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| Uchisar Kalesi
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| Uchisar Kalesi
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| Uchisar Kalesi view
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| Uchisar Kalesi view
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| Imperial Cave Suites
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| Imperial Cave Suites terrace
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| Imperial Cave Suites
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| Imperial Cave Suites
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| Goreme landmark
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The ancient Hittite capital from around 1600 to 1200 BC.
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| Reconstructed/Reimagined Hittite city walls
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| Lower Temple area
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| Mysterious green nephrite cube, about a meter on a side
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Lion Gate
Left lion an imaginative reconstruction, right lion is a replica.
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| Sphinx Gate. (Sphinxes are replicas.)
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| Tunnel under Sphinx Gate
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| Corbelled Tunnel
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| View over Hattuşa site
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King's Gate
Replica statue - original is in Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
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| Outside side of King's Gate
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| Royal Castle
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| Original statues from Sphinx Gate
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| Original Sphinx
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| Hittite Bullehead vase
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| Armour reconstruction
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| A line of pointy-capped gods
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| View to Ankara Castle
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| Ataturk Statue, under rennovation
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| Column of Julian
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| Temple of Augustus and Rome, ~25 AD
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| Temple of Augustus and Rome, ~25 AD
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Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
In a 15th c covered market.
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| Reconstructed Çatalhöyük house
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| Çatalhöyük Mother Goddess ~5750 BC
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| Deer + humans, Çatalhöyük ~6000BC
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| Çatalhöyük weapons, obsidian and flint
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Çatalhöyük artifacts
Pendants (34,36), Rings (37), belt buckle (33)
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| Bronze age bull
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| Bronze age Standards
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| "Ritual Vessels"
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| Tablet of Sargon of Akkad, ~2300 BC
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| Stamp Seal, Kultepe, 18th c BC
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| Relief from Hattusa King's Gate
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| Bronze Cauldron, 8th c BC
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| Urartu Relief, 7th c BC
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| King Mutallu, Assyrian ~700 BC
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| Late Hittite Lion, 1200-700 BC
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| Late Hittite Human-headed Winged Lion 1200-700BC
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| Lion of the Gate, 900-700 BC
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| Hittite Pedastel 1200-700 BC
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| Warriors 900-700 BC
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| Bronze head, 2nd c AD
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| Bronze statue. Roman era (?)
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Kebapçı Mehmet oğlu İskender
The claimed home of the Iskender Kebab
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| Official Iskender Kebab
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| Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) statue
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| Bursa Ulu Çarşı (Market)
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| Bursa Ulu Çarşı (Market)
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| Bursa Kalesi
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| Bursa Kalesi: Restored gate
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Tomb of Osman Gazi (rebuilt)
The Founder of the Ottoman Dynasty
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| Tomb entrance, with costumed guards
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| Tomb of Sultan Osman Gazi
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| Tomb of Sultan Osman Gazi
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Tomb of Orhan Gazi, Osman's son.
In a separate tomb building
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| View to the many-domed Bursa Grand Mosque
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| Bursa Grand Mosque
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| Magnificent Mihrab
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| Some of the 20 arched domes
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| Interior fountain, an unusual feature
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| Dome over central fountain
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South Turkey
