Unfortunately, blogger is in Turkish when you access the webpage in Turkey (makes sense, I suppose), so I can't figure out how to put a permalink to the pictures. Here's the address again:
http://picasaweb.google.com/round.the.globe.in.100.days
Our cave-house is still wonderful (I have found my calling as a troglodyte), but Sunday we go to Olympos where we will live in a tree-house (what's next?). Cappadocia (where we are now) is incredible...our pictures don't do it justice. We aren't able to upload our latest pictures, but we went to one of the many underground cities here and it was very impressive. Although they were inhabited by Christians fleeing from people who wanted them dead during the first couple centuries A.D., the underground cities were originally built long before that by an unknown people (it is believed that they may have been the Hittites or the Sumerians around 3000 or 4000 years ago). The amazing thing is that some of these underground cities once housed as many as 60,000 people on up to 7 different stories, and had ventilation shafts, kitchens, stables (these were near the ground level), churches, sleeping quarters, etc. They are still around today and you can visit them...truly a marvel of engineering. If you are claustrophobic at all, I would avoid them...Amber was a real trooper and just barely made it through (think dark tunnels 20 meters underground that you have to crawl through). Pictures of them will be posted soon.
Enjoy our pictures so far (by the time you view them, they should all be captioned!)
-Eric
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This is a blog dedicated to the worldly travels of Eric, Amber, Dan and friends in the summer of 2007. During our travels we will be visiting Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, Mongolia, China, and possibly others.
6 comments:
you chumps. you would never hack it as an underground miner!! theres nothing better than running around thru kilometers of tunnels.
as for the basil beer, there will be a shipment for you guys when you get back.
I hope you enjoy Olympos. I am loving the travel info. I am definitely going to check out some of the areas you are hitting.
OMG...These pictures are marvelous! I wish I was there with you now *sigh*.
olympos was actually a major disappointment! we are kicking ourselves for wasting a day there when we could have stayed in Patara (our currentlocation) longer
Hey howdy hi!
I've resurrected my blogger account so that I can comment here.
I don't have anything much to say though.
We enjoyed your pictures.
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