Cappadocia is known for its underground cities, which were used by Christians to hide from the Romans and later from the Muslims. This particular cave network could hold about 20,000 people for three days. 

The underground city. 

The underground city. 

Cappadocia is not only know for its rocks, but also for its wine. 

The mother, the child, and the father. Legend says they were frozen there. 

The underground city. 

Monastary at Cappadocia, where we saw a number of churches built into the rock. 

The vats. 

Mary portrait in a Cappadocia church. 

We visited a rug factory where women work tirelessly to produce handmade silk and wool rugs. A silk rug of this size, one meter squared, takes about a year to make and costs abotu $5,000. Each women knows two designs by heart, and they make only those designs during the course of their career. 

I mean, read this. 

Jesus portrait in a Cappadocia church. 

Extracting the silk for rug making. 

The beautiful feeling of a $150,000 rug. 

Making the Sale: we told them we could not afford these rugs, but they get a medal for effort. 

Cappadocia 

Landscape of central Turkey. Pictures taken during the bus ride back from Cappadocia. 

ATATURK! 

Cappadocia. 

Landscape of central Turkey. 

Landscape of central Turkey. 

Landscape of central Turkey. 

Landscape of central Turkey. 

Landscape of central Turkey. 

Landscape of central Turkey.