2019-04-21 Day 206 Sun

No tea and no shower - water is not flowing!!!! An inch of new snow underfoot. I did manage to get my hair wet though!!

We traveled through wet/snowy farm land and are seeing more of these old grave stones.

We came across these natural caves that had been lived in and extended. One had a chimney up through 2m of rock well sand stone.


 





Hunger getting the better of us we stopped at Ortakoy for one of our best lunches. Was really tasty.

Although heading for Cappodocia - we found these underground houses first at Tatlarin. We walked up and explored them. John then climbed up the “ladder“ hole and explore the second floor. We then drove a short way to the signposted “Underground town” and were let into two churches which still had Frescos in quite good condition. The “guide” told us to go to another door and we explored a little of the underground “town” Which was probably a monastery or garrison complex. There was a room with burial crypts built into the walls from Roman times and store rooms. 100m long passage ways which was not lit so did not venture down. Quite a big area. 2 toilets, which had the catching area below for the fertilizer to be removed.

 

Once again finding a camp was challenging. John chose a hill top via a track which led past an military compound. The problem being, apart from the snow and rain, the farmer had sowed over parts of the track which made it rather soft, and that the army compound fence had concrete poles with the angle section pointing out at about cab window height so if we were to go sideways….

 
Anyway john got us up past the compound then the track took on a bit of a camber so we drove onto a bit of unused ground and parked for the night. No visit from the army.

 153km

Camp site