03/08/2009: Turkey (Dianne's photos Part 2)
Michael and Dianne's 4th anniversary spent in Turkey Part 2.
Travertine deposits at Pamukkale
You are allowed to walk on one section but only barefooted.
Hierapolis at Pamukkale
Antique Pool - hot springs you can swim in with ancient columns placed in it for effect.
The Plutonium releases toxic gases escaping from the underword.
Roman Theater
Church where St. Philip was martyred.
Gate to city
Roman baths that travelers use before entering the City.
Mile long necropolis
a tomb
Another type of tomb
A very nice gaurd invited us to go into one of the tombs
He then offer to take our photo!
Inside of an above ground tomb
our hotel in Pamukkale had its own travertine pool
strange bird - half duck half chicken
Konya - authentic hamam
low doors connect humid rooms
A large hexigon marble slab occupies the center of the bath. You lay on it to warm your bady up for the scrub.
The woman who scrubbed Dianne and Jean with her two girls.
Tombs of whorling derishes
Kiosk for cleaning feet before entering the mosque.
Rug doorway on mosque.
market in Konya
Konya mosque
Sultanhani Canavaseria along the 1500s trade route
inside the caravanseria is places to bath, sleep, kitchen and stables.
Underground city of Kaymakh
underground church
Winery? hmmm.
stone door rolled in place to block attackers.
air shaft
don't know what these nitches are for.
rolling door
Kaymakh from on top the underground city
our fellow traveler the shiek
Cappadocia
roof of a house
Michael and Robert walking on top the roof of an abandoned house without realizing it.
Inside the abandoned house was very similar to the restored house we ate in that night.
Turkey's moki steps and stone dwelllings. Bandoleer on steroids
Inside one of the fairy chimneys is a strange slot window.
next to the slot window is one with 7 pin holes.
looking out the door
looking back at the fairy chimney I had been insdie. The door is 1/3 the way to the top. Michael had to spot me coming down.
the Goreme open air museum is many rock hewn Byzantine churches, monasteries and chapels.
Tthe little holes in the big windows are for pigeon keeping.
church door
no flash is allowed in churches so my photos don't do justice to the beauty
We didn't know what this was all about
chicken eating plant on top of ground. Underground is the devil.
Up in the dome is paradise shown as palm trees.
Turtles depicting the long slow journey toward heaven.
Our group with Gate! travel.
tombs & Anderson
inside a church
guards
Long rock table used for dinner.
Painting at the end of the table is the Last Super.
The police station.
weaver at high pressure sales carpet warehouse
demonstraition getting silk from a cacoon.
scrambling among the formations.
a dancing couple from Victorian times
another stop with more carved fairy chimneys.
Robert and Jean on the steps.
Michael in a vertical tunnel connecting floors within a formation.
Michael looking out the top window.
Ben in window.
Pigeon valley. We were the only ones from our group to decend into this valley so we had to fly through it snapping photos as fast as we could.
Amazing place with little gardens on the valley floor.
just a tunnel in the walk way
Hotel in Ankara was pretty but heavy with smoke residual.
Rainy day in Ankara. Alan, Kathy, Polly, David, Michael, Robert and Jean.
Clockwise: Michael, David, Dianne, Jean, Robert, Kathy, Allen, Polly.
House/museum/restaurant we went for tea to dry up a bit.
Bridal store with boy's circumcision finery.
Coppersmith decorating a bowl for Dianne.
Spices in the spice bazaar.
flavourings in the Spice Bazaar.
Turkish delight
Masses in the Grand Bazaar
school along the road
Medusa in the Roman cistern under Istanbul
