I have just been watching a film partly set in a place called Cappadocia, so bizarre looking, it could have been a man-made film set, and I was intrigued enough to look it up. I had never heard of it, though the photographs I found were familiar, huge rock formations pointing skyward, surrounded by a flotilla of hot-air balloons, which they say is the best way to get an overall picture of the area. People have been living – and some are still - either underground or in caves for literally centuries in this place, and there are a number of reasons for this, but the point is that the way people have lived and survived in Cappadocia is just as remarkable as its terrain.
Stone Age Settlements Cappadocia has been home to many civilizations since the Stone Age. Taking advantage of the extraordinary terrain, many rock-cut settlements, houses, monasteries, churches, chapels, and underground cities were built. This extraordinary place lies in the eastern part of the Central Anatolia Region in the middle of Turkey, around 30 kilometers from the closest airport Nevşehir, and a 3-hour drive from Ankara.
With a population of an estimated 575, this is a not exactly a city as such, but is a large region touching 5 Turkish provinces, made up of small settlements spread out around the hills and valleys that make the region so beautiful. Fairy Chimneys The area is famous for its so-called ‘Fairy Chimneys’, a great name for a geological process that started millions of years ago, that g.
