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Cappadocia

 

Twelve hours later, the bus stops at the Urgup otogar.  It is only 5:15am in the morning, the town is still sleeping.  Yet I am so impressed that the hotel taxi has already been waiting for me.

The hotel just on top of the hill.  Well, instead calling it a hotel, it is no more than a big traditional house with three or four bed rooms.  However, it is very clean and cozy. Once a while, I do appreciate my own room and a hot bath.

Urgup is a very little town with its own characteristics. Sand stone houses, cobbled street... The town center is pretty much where everything is: otogar (bus station), a travel agence, couple restaurants, some small shops and two or three government buildings.  Umm..  I enjoy small town like this more than big cities.

After breakfast, the tour bus picked me up, along with seven other tourists from other hotels.  We started our two days trip.

Cappadocia indeed has some very interesting landscape.  Yet,  I think the City of Petra in Jordan is much more colourful and impressive.  Perhaps I would have appreciated the view if I visited here first.

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The food is excellent from the local restaurant.  That Turkish pizza and chicken Karba really filled me up.  Tomorrow we will go see the underground city, I better have a good night sleep.  After all, it has been 50 hours since I last slept on a bed.

 


Today's Tips:
* Try the local food, excellent Turkish Pizza and chicken karba.
* Cappadocia can be very cold, bring enough cloth.

Today's Expenses: (US$1 = TL660,000): US103
* Cappadocia Tour:  US 100
* Dinner: TL 2M

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