2002-08-04 04:00:00 PDT Urgup, Turkey-- It's long after midnight when we arrive in the town of Urgup, in the badlands of central Turkey, and a woman named Kismet is leading us down a path to our ...

GOREME, Turkey -- While countless years of erosion shaped the unique landscape of the Goreme Valley, for centuries, residents of the historic region of Cappadocia used the natural resource to create ...

Night descends on this desolate valley as the yatsi - the final Muslim prayer call from the muezzin - ricochets across the gorge. A donkey brays, its hooves giving off a staccato clop-clop as it heads ...

Photo taken on July 9, 2012 shows a view of the rock cave site in Cappadocia, Turkey. UNESCO listed the unique area of Goreme-Cappadocia as both a cultural and natural World Heritage Site in ...

There’s something in the air in Cappadocia. Some say it’s the winged spirits — ‘peri’, in Turkish — that reputedly inhabit the region’s famous, phallic geological marvels, ‘fairy chimneys’. In the ...

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