My travels in Europe:
Bus travel in Cappadocia in Turkey

Bus travel in Cappadocia in Turkey, day 5:

1. Day 1: Antalya
2. Day 2: Manavgat, river boat tour
3. Day 3: Cappadocia, Taurus Mountains - Mevlana - Konya - Göreme
4. Day 4: Cappadocia, Göreme - Ugrup - Avanos - Pasabag
5. Day 5: Cappadocia, Göreme - Kaymakli - Uchisar - Nevsihir - Ortahisar*
6. Day 6: Cappadocia, Göreme - Aksaray - Konya
7. Day 7 - 8: Antalya old town - home

Göreme, Kaymakli Underground City

This is the fifth day on our Turkey Cappadocia tour. This day we go to Kaymakli. What we see here is the market but we are here to visit the "Underground City".

This place is very popular and we have to wait for a while.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Kaymakli Underground City (Kaymakli Underground City, Wiki)

Our local Cappadocia guide tell us to follow the red arrows, if we do as he says no one will be lost.

Thousands of people lived down here in the caves, so it is very large and easy to get lost in the tunnels.

Still no missing person.

The people who lived here must have been very short. I'm 1.8 m (6 feet) tall and had some problems to get through in the narrow passages.

This is the door which close the entrance in case of an attack.

This city reminds me of the popular TV series, The Flintstones.

This is stairs to the ventilation shaft. The shaft functions as an air conditioner.

Time to leave the cave.

This is the town just outside.

Part of it from the 15th century.

The underground city is down under here, nothing visibly from outside.

Göreme, Uchisar

Now we move to Uchisar.

A walk along the road that lead us to the view point.

• http://www.goreme.com/ uchisar.php (Uchisar, Heritage)

Göreme, Ortahisar

Wow... long time ago I also had a bicycle car, but just for two persons.

Now we are hungry, but first a look at the market.

The market once again, intensive discussions.

Göreme, Ortahisar (Urgup) Silk and carpets manufacturing

The silk road cross this area and now we shall visit a silk factory.

We got to visit the factory where they wove rugs of silk manufactured here. The staff sat very concentrated and tied together the thin silk threads. We got a very interesting insight into the complicated manufacturing process.

The cocoons where they got the silk from.

A hot bath of water needed to loose the silk threads from the cocoons.

Dyeing of beautiful colors.

• http://www.travelsignposts.com/ Turkey/ shopping/ carpet-factory-in-turkey (Travelsignposts)

To our surprise this person spooked fluent Swedish! He had lived in Sweden many years.

Göreme, Turasan Winery

Before we where totally exhausted we visited a winery.

Göreme, Ortahisar back to hotel Dilek Kaya

A night walk in the surroundings before sleep.