cappadocia

If you're in the USA, you can find something similar to Cappadocia in Bandolier National Monument, New Mexico.

Istanbul is great, the small boat cruises between Fethiye and Olympos are memorable and Cappadocia is exceptional.

In fact, Cappadocia in Turkey is thought to have housed 20,000 people in one big underground network!

In Turkey, they'll make up all these stories about wine flasks in Cappadocia that have this hole in the middle.

Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), by Saint Fabiola in Rome ca.

In Cappadocia (central Turkey) there are millenia-old settlements carved out of volcanic tuff.

I've been to Cappadocia and the photos of the photographer don't represent the reality of Cappadocia at all, they are all heavily stylised and what's lost is the awe to this stylisation.

For anyone who hasn't visited Turkey or the Cappadocia region, I highly recommend it.

All Cappadocia area is like a visit to another planet.

If you enjoyed those cliff houses, you might like Cappadocia in Turkey which has a lot of similar dwellings, and even an underground town of sorts.

> They’ve taken me snorkelling in the Maldives, hot-air ballooning over Cappadocia and snowmobiling in Iceland.

That's true, but what connects Bandolier and Cappadocia are that they are carved out of a softer material which was created as a thick layer of volcanic ash.

And corny ones, too; I'm looking at "Hot air ballons over Cappadocia" (I still don't get the "panther thingy"; maybe because I'm in Germany).

Cappadocia is a fine place to visit, but honestly visiting Derinkuyu was not a highlight.

I haven't done the math, but seeing the chapels in Cappadocia, Turkey seems to prove this.

Humanity appears to have gone underground before (Cappadocia is just one example).