Cappadocia

This place is really interesting and also a little freaky!  Just when you think you have seen enough hewn out rock rooms, something comes along to blow your mind!  In this case it was what started out as a Monastery in the second century and then became a place of learning for Christianity and then, God know what.  Today it is a tourist attraction and inside the rocks are the remains.  There are several churches, complete with domes and painted ceilings and wall reliefs, as well as storage rooms and dining halls.

Highlights?  The whole place and the atmosphere of sheer history and that someone's hands made this 2000 years ago.

Downside?  Freaken tourists!  Everywhere!  Myself not included of course!  Narrow little staircases made for somber people of God, bustling with about 75 bus loads of every nationality under the sun.

Further downsides?  Selfies!!!!!!  I could not be more over them.  Everywhere!!  Mostly with selfie sticks and ALWAYS a with what Alex calls 'sad, baby face' you know the look models have where they stare off with a wistful look.  That's the Selfie look adopted here in Turkey by the touring masses.

I saw an Asian kid today, surrounded by the ancientness of Cappadicia, lying on a patch of grass doing a selfie, with his background being...............?????  Grass!  Imagine him telling his buddies, 'here's me in Athens'  -grass
'He's me in Rome'. -grass
'Here's me in Cappadocia...'

Clearly not an art student.