http://ianandoana.com/blog/2007/07/24/cappadocia-land-of-beautiful-horsesawkwardly-shaped-rocks/ Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:57:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://ianandoana.com/blog/2007/07/24/cappadocia-land-of-beautiful-horsesawkwardly-shaped-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-15668 cortinadampezzo Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:36:50 +0000 http://ianandoana.com/blog/2007/07/23/cappadocia-land-of-beautiful-horsesawkwardly-shaped-rocks/#comment-15668 I've been to this region of Turkey and it's breathtaking. There were pockets of dense basalt stone that formed amongst fairly soft sandstone. Over time, the erosion caused large pillars to form beneath the basalt caps. The result is these large stone pillars into which people carved cave houses about 1600 years ago. They also carved into the rock walled canyons nearby, and built a series of intricate churches and monasteries along the Ilhara valley (which you can hike the length of, and is well worth doing so). I’ve been to this region of Turkey and it’s breathtaking. There were pockets of dense basalt stone that formed amongst fairly soft sandstone. Over time, the erosion caused large pillars to form beneath the basalt caps. The result is these large stone pillars into which people carved cave houses about 1600 years ago. They also carved into the rock walled canyons nearby, and built a series of intricate churches and monasteries along the Ilhara valley (which you can hike the length of, and is well worth doing so).

]]> http://ianandoana.com/blog/2007/07/24/cappadocia-land-of-beautiful-horsesawkwardly-shaped-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-1933 Hannah Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:20:07 +0000 http://ianandoana.com/blog/2007/07/23/cappadocia-land-of-beautiful-horsesawkwardly-shaped-rocks/#comment-1933 Ohhhhhhh. Having just come back from an alleged "holiday", your pictures have just turned me green with envy... Ohhhhhhh. Having just come back from an alleged “holiday”, your pictures have just turned me green with envy…

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