At the beginning of July we celebrated a special Wedding Anniversary with our family, and decided we would like to mark the occasion by taking a trip to see the extraordinary landscape of Cappadocia. November suited us better as July would have been unbearably hot.
Every household in Turkey has one of these blue glass ornaments hanging somewhere in their home, protecting them from the 'evil eye'.
In the previous post I mentioned that this photo held a clue. The Honesty seeds are sitting on a Kelim rug surrounded by Kelim cushions all hand woven in Turkey.
Several people guessed Turkey, but Perpetua, Marian and Yoko were spot on when they said Cappadocia - this is where fairy chimneys are to be found - geologically known as Hoodoos.
Several people guessed Turkey, but Perpetua, Marian and Yoko were spot on when they said Cappadocia - this is where fairy chimneys are to be found - geologically known as Hoodoos.
In 'A Time To Keep Silence' by Patrick Leigh Fermor, he describes the area thus:-
It was the landscape of a planet, the surface of the moon or Mars or Saturn; a dead, ashen world, lit with the blinding pallor of a waste of asbestos, filled, not with craters and shell-holes, but with cones and pyramids and monoliths from fifty to a couple of hundred feet high, each one a rigid isosceles of white volcanic rock like the headgear of a procession of Spanish penitents during Passion Week.
These petrified cagoulards extended for leagues to the farthest end of the ravine, where they were reduced by distance to a barrier of shark's teeth.
Patrick Leigh Fermor was one of our greatest travel writers who died in 2011 at the age of 96 years.
Our journey commenced along the Mediterranean coast of Antalya before climbing over the mighty Taurus mountain range to Konya, the cradle of Sufism. We then followed the Silk Road across the plains of the ancient region of Anatolia to Cappadocia.
We found fairy chimneys - more of which, when I have recharged my batteries following our extensive travels.
