1. Kaymakli Underground City
It was used as a shelter and was believed to be there since the Hitite period which is probably thousands of years before christ (ie caveman area-ish i guess??). It is called a city because it was so huge. It could fit 60,000 ppl. This underground city is 40m under and about 8 levels down. Tourist were allowed through the first four levels. Its always 17degrees throughout all the seasons in the year and it gets hotter the deeper you go (towards centre of the Earth). There were bedrooms, storage areas, kitchen, wineries, communal centres etc etc...
Stone door to keep the enemies away. Easy to push from the inside but not from the outside.
2. Somewhere around Cappadocia...
3. Have you seen what happens when Popeye eats Spinach...click to enlarge
ANKARA
Ankara is the capital of Turkey... not Istanbul not since Ataturk made the sultans leave within 24/48 hours. Thats coz the Sultans were sellouts to The Allies since the defeat of the Ottoman empire in World War I. Location wise, its pretty central in terms of it being crossroads for trade in Turkey. When we arrived in Turkey the bus drove through streets of shopping. Wheee!! After weeks in suburbia... and all the signs had a big fat discount sign on it. We reached our hotel, checked in, ate and left and the shops were closeeeee :(((( So we ended up just walking about their equivalent of petaling st...well more like a pasar malam (night market)
^8 Cee
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