Balloons over Cappadocia
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Uploaded by wpkleinsorge on Apr 27, 2010
G�reme National Park in Cappadocia, central Turkey, is home to one of nature's most intriguing phenomena. Commonly referred to as the Valley of the Fairy Chimneys, after the strange rock formations that proliferate in the region, this weird and wonderful landscape was formed when three volcanoes, Erciyes, Hasan and Melendiz Da�lari erupted around 30 million years ago. The deposits they created make up a material called tuff, a soft rock that is easily eroded to form extraordinary table mountains, fairy chimneys and undulating, sand-dune like cliff faces. For hundreds of years, the indigenous population had carved homes out of the rocks. St Paul introduced Christianity to the region in the first century AD, and one of Cappadocia's chief attractions is the array of rock churches and monasteries that were hewn out of the landscape, thus being hidden from the pursuing Arab invaders.
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