Another early start with the Goreme Open Air Museum. This is the main city of caves that people lived in up until relatively recently about 100 years ago. The city is full of cave homes, store houses, and cathedrals. The homes and cathedrals with the most spectacular paintings we were not permitted to take photos. Once again another wonderful morning climbing through the chambers and through little doors, every cave and little corridor is so interesting. Corban and Leo especially loved the caves.
Following this we headed to Pigeon Valley for some photos and a look at the cliff side markets. Goreme is so interesting, always interesting stalls, friendly people, camels and someone trying to sell you something. You'll see a picture of a tree in one of the photos, these are blue eyes. The blue eyes are everywhere and are supposed to bring good luck or good fortune, so you can often find them in the concrete outside shops or hanging near doorways. The cafe with this tree are certainly hoping for some good fortune.
Today was a compulsory afternoon sleep because that evening we were booked for a 3 hour, sunset 4 wheel motorbike tour. Allan was getting sick (fever and backache) and everyone tired from the big days.
After a good rest we were ready for motorbiking, another absolute highlight of our trip. For the first hour at least Leo screamed with joy constantly and Taylor couldn't wipe the smile off her face, meaning she had a mouth full of dust. The track was family friendly weaving our way through different valleys and stopping at great lookout and rock formations. By the time we reached the sunset point Allan had broken into a bad fever, headache and was hardly able to continue. The kids and I went up the rock palace without Allan, leaving him to rest for the journey back. On the way home Corban switched to riding with Taylor and Allan made it back without puking which was a bonus. Allan was straight to bed, while we had our dinner at our local Turkish eat out all exhausted and chatting about our adventure!
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