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Turkey: Cappadocia – The Land of Balloons
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Published: 25.12.2014

Winter has not show itself in its full strenght yet but we want to take you with us to sunny Cappadoccia.

Foto: Sylvie Halouzková

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Turkey: Cappadocia – The Land of Beautiful Horses IV
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For many centuries, Anatolia was a center of Chrisianity, mostly thanks to Apostle Paul and his missionary expeditions. His activity took place mostly around the year 41 AD. Christianity spread due to fertile ground it found in Cappadocia.

Turkey: Cappadocia – Land of Beautiful Horses I
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I wanted to visit Cappadocia, a land of beautiful horses as the Hittites. I bought a ticket bus and rode from Bodrum to Antalya where I slept over. On the following day I rode across the town of Konya where I visited caravanserai (an oriental pub by main roads where members of caravans and their animals ate) and the museum of Mevlana.

Turkey: Bodrum or Halikarnassos III
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My journey now goes across ticket barriers to the museum compound, and then to the St Barbora church, who became a Christian against the will of her father. Initially, he imprisoned her and then killed her. Legend has it that he was struck by lightning for this.

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We just enter the city of Konya, the capital of former Seljuk empire. I step off from a bus at a bus station. I pick up my map of the city and head to a tower that shows me the way to the museum of Mevlana. The city spreads on a plateau surrounded with mountains.

Turkey: Cappadocia – The Land of Beautiful Horses VI
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I had my balloon flight above Cappadocia at last. In my perspective, it is there where to do such thing is the best. We were at the place at 5.15 in the morning. There were more than 50 balloons being prepared for flights!

Turkey: Cappadocia – The Land of Beautiful Horses III
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Turkey: Bodrum or Halikarnassos IV
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Once again I continue by dolmush to Turgutreis to a memorial to an admiral, and than I walk trough a green park to the port. Then I hitchhike another dolmush and go north to Gümüşlük where the flooded city of Myndos is located.

Turkey: Bodrum or Halikarnasosos I.
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We have just landed. I take a deep breath. Finally we are at the Bodrum Airport. We get into a bus and 40 minutes later ride downhill to Bodrum. The air has a salty smell of distant lends, colors have numerous shades, and azure horizon seamlessly changes to the sky.


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