Day 14: Thursday September 18. Two week anniversary.

After saying goodbye to our friends in Ankara thia morning, we took the bus down to Goreme in the region of Anatolia (aka Cappadocia). The bus took shorter than expected - 4 hours instead of 5 - so we had time to explore a bit after settling into our quaint hostel.

We saw some magnificent pencil-like rock and volcanic ash formations, and saw caves where people used to live on the side of the mountain. After our brief walk, we had a great dinner of beef stew cooked in a clay pot. The owner of the restaurant had to break the pot right in front of us so that we could eat it! We also tried raki, the traditional Turkish liqueur...it tasted like alcoholic licorish, and neither of us could finish it.

After dinner, we shared a couple of bottles of regional wine with some people staying at our hostel. Supposedly Cappadocia is the best wine-growing region in Turley, but we weren't all that impressed. Maybe tomorrow we'll taste something better!
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