PHOTOS FROM TURKEY DAY EIGHT (part 1)

Day eight was a whole day in Cappadocia. In the Neolithic period Cappadocia was caught between two active volcanoes, Mounts Hasan and Erciyes, which buried it under a thick layer of ash. this formed the soft malleable stone known as tufa, and over the centuries erosion and human effort combined to create the fantastic landscape we see today, with its many thousands of varicolored pinnacles and surreal rock formations. I could not help but think of the Badlands in South Dakota while in Cappadocia.

Larry Hewett