1. Cappadocia Carpet
Silk worm and its fine thread
Only in Turkey are the carpet double knotted
Only in Turkey are the carpet double knotted
The carpet that was 12 years in the making. Of course the kids just had to jump on it. Anyway, these carpets are said to last for 3 generations. My cousin bought some and told my niece that she can tell her daughter one day that grandma bought it (thought that was pretty cool)
2. Goreme Open Air Museum.There used to be civilisation up in these rocks here. Actually the holes you see in the pictures used to be hidden. But erosion (first caused by cracks->snowed on top->melted and goes deeper into crack->freezes again and become ice, causing the crack to expand->etc etc) caused parts of the rocks to fall off and eventually exposing the civilisation inside.
Group shot :)
Chapels inside one of the rocks. Chapels in Goreme were said to be built in the 300 A.D. 1300 years ago and see how wonderful the paints still are. Below is the original paint made up of red clay from the river nearby.
Later on when they had more money they plastered above the original and did frescoes. If you notice the eyes are chipped off. Some believed that the eye acted as some form of amulet and either carried around with them or mixed it to drink
Chapels inside one of the rocks. Chapels in Goreme were said to be built in the 300 A.D. 1300 years ago and see how wonderful the paints still are. Below is the original paint made up of red clay from the river nearby.
Later on when they had more money they plastered above the original and did frescoes. If you notice the eyes are chipped off. Some believed that the eye acted as some form of amulet and either carried around with them or mixed it to drink
Pottery making knowledge is traditionally handed down to the men in the family. In this town, if a man did not know how to pottery make he couldnt marry because he would be considered of no profession and unable to support a family. Place we went to visit was in a cave as it has been since 7 generations ago!
The 'intricate-ness' of pottery design
I had a go at it too!!
I had a go at it too!!
Some display of the works produced
4. Went downtown, 15 minutes walk from our hotel (7 mins drive from Goreme). The town is really something special at night. Dont quite know how to describe it and perhaps closest to it is to imagine living in the Flinstones era!!^8 Cee
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