More pictures from Turkey

Another view from the hotel...you can see they have built right into the "tuffas", lots of rooftop living, some solar panels, even a blue tarp with the streets below.

We took a back street but they found us anyway...and I bought a little necklace that she told me matched my eyes...sales pitch in very good english

Add cThis was a hike thru the Rose valley...I think its called that because the canyon walls are rose colored in certain light.  Grape vines, pomegranate trees, fig trees....all around. Not much soil unused.

This was a Greek town until in the 1940s Turkey sent 2,000.000 Greeks back to Greece and called 500,000 Turks back to Turkey from Greece.  They refer to it as "the exchange."  It was an awful time...families that had been in one place or the other for generations were made to leave.  There seem to be squatters in some of the houses but no one has really set up housekeeping in them..vendors are along the roads but the homes are basically empty still.

Went descended into a beautiful valley, Valley of the Kings, for a great lunch.  We walked down but they had a jeep to bring us back up after lunch.



The man is a local turk with raging blue eyes and ran the lunch operation..there were about 12 of us.  The woman was traveling with her husband and they had just finished sailing in the Mediterranean with their two sons and their wives.  Her youngest son went to Middlebury and has just completed his Ph.D at /CU in Boulder.  Small world again.

They put food in those little holes to attract the pigeons and then they collect their droppings and use it for fertilizer.  The owner says he pays young boys to climb up the ladder you can see  there and collect the droppings.  I hope he pays well !!!