Barbara & Henry Go Round the World

Turkish Delight Part II Sep 8, 2005

Well I just spent two hours uploading only 8 photos (we took so many today because these formations are just so damned wierd!), when I wanted to post 12, but it took so long, and we have to go out tonight to see some folk dancing so I'm going to have to make this brief. Maintaining this site has its problems--first we have to find a internet cafe with a high speed connection, then we have to have time to write (hopefully on an English keyboard) and upload photos which always takes a pretty long time. We spent the morning walking through a valley in the midst of these natural formations (for lack of a better word) picking and eating fresh sweet purple grapes, apples, blackberries, plums and a small orange thingy. Then a stop at Kymackli which has an underground city of 8 stories deep that dates as far back as 3,000 years which was built by the Hittites for the populace to hide in when enemies were attacking. We were able to walk down through all these rooms and apartments that housed up to 5,000 people and was amazingly sophisticated even to the extent of being able to trap invading enemies and killing them. We had a lunch of gozleme which is a pancake filled with potatoes and cheese plus a salad and a drink of Ayran, a salty yogurt drink which we have been drinking throughout Turkey. We spent some more time walking and driving and through these unusual creations before coming back to our hotel and now trying to send out this entry in our travelblog. I will send out one more entry before we leave Turkey and in it I want to talk about food and drin including Turkish coffee and apple tea. We want you all to know that we do get to read the news whenever we get to an internet cafe and like everyone else our hearts and sincere good wishes go out to all those in New Orleans who were lucky enough to have survived the horrible disaster of Katrina.

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