We caught the overnight bus from Olympos to Cappadocia and I will never do it again. The bus and the drive was fine but with a stop every two hours you get absolutely no sleep.
We arrived into Goreme at 6.00am and to our surprise it was cold. Well fresh anyway. We had just come from Olympos which had been about 32*C and now we were in Goreme with 15*C and a cool breeze. We were staying at the Travellers Cave Pension which was actually built into one of the many rock formations that Cappodicia is know for. That afternoon we went to the number one tourist site, the Open Air Museum. It was interesting to see but nothing like what I thought it was going to be. The Open Air Museum is filled with houses, churches, and living areas of the inhabitants from 1600 years ago. They were trying to escape Roman persecution at the time so they all made their homes and the rock formations. I thought the museum was going to be more of the natural rock formations and no so much on the houses built inside. On the way home we took a little detour off the road and found a very picturesque area known as "Love Valley". It got it's name from the rock formations that resemble giant penises. Go figure.
The next day we just took a wander around the small town and took it all in at a very relaxed pace. I think the one thing that we both loved the most about Goreme is that it had a very Australian feel to it strangely enough. The air and temperature had an Australian winter kind of feel which gave it a very homely feeling.
The next day we flew back to Istanbul for one night and then off to Cairo Egypt on the 13th September 2008. My second time.
