welcome to my cave although that makes
it sound a little bit more primitive
than it actually is so let me give you a
tour of this place first let me turn the
lights on all right there you go let's
open up the windows here I'm not going
to show what's outside quite yet but
check it out
not a bad cave I'm here in Cappadocia
Turkey and this is one of the most
fascinating places in the world you will
be seeing much more in the coming days
as I explore around here flat-screen TV
Wi-Fi that does not work all that well
it turns out Wi-Fi doesn't work all that
good in a cave who would have guessed
stone construction you can see here I
was talking with the owner of the hotel
here it turns out that the original
structures here were actually ancient
caves well not ancient maybe like 100
years old or so a family that built two
stone buildings here and lived in them
and then they had abandoned them and
they had been falling apart and so they
bought the structures and built a hotel
around these two structures so these are
actually original buildings not built
for tourists as a hotel and then as you
can see very nicely refurbished so we
have electricity nice comfy double bed
and attached bathroom
so I'm going to get ready to go here
head out show a little bit more of this
hotel and then go give you a little
first impressions of Cappadocia and so
look at this amazing building they did a
great job and they nice hangout area up
there and so the Wi-Fi works better out
here
obviously the stone buildings make it
hard for the internet signal to get in
there
and so some of these rooms it looks like
our carved straight into the cliff and
then these other ones are a building
that was created separately and I stayed
here once before ten years ago it was
another hotel somewhere in this area and
the rooms were all ones that were carved
straight out of the cliff and they were
the ancient ancient caves who knows how
old hundreds maybe older than that that
were carved by ancient peoples in this
area because so here you can see these
natural strange rock formations called
fairy chimneys and as you will see as I
get closer up to these strange things
here then you can see that one there has
a square like a window in it and so
these weird phenomena of geology were
also carved out by ancient peoples and
lived in and so as you scan this scene
here then you can see various doors and
windows and many of those were carved
out who knows how long ago hundreds of
years thousands of years ago but people
who lived in this area and that lived
inside caves so let's get out of here
and go get some more perspective up on
the hill here and so this video is
basically going to be a little intro to
Cappadocia I'm just going to wander
around here Shelby town this is jerimae
the main central little tourist town for
the region is it Ataturk
yes yeah okay
see you
atatürk is considered to be the father
of modern Turkey meteor park cave hostel
that's the place about $45 a night for
that room there great deal and so the
town of Jeremy is out that way and I'm
going to walk up here and get up on top
of that hill up there
and look at that so that one actually
has a real window in it probably that
was a cave that was carved out by
ancient people and there was that just
whole square hole carved by the people
as a window probably without glass in it
I mean I don't really know but just
guessing and then they took that window
and put a proper window in it and these
buildings right here I'm not sure what's
going on I was checking them out
yesterday it might be a hotel that's
under construction or something because
it's all abandoned
you can see the wooden beams and so that
looks like more recent construction this
whole building in general looks like it
was being worked on more recently but
I'm not sure cuz then you look at this
and it's all overgrown like it hasn't
been touched in a long time so look at
this Wow so this is one of the ancient
caves it looks thank you and then here
you have modern construction going on so
it looks like this building is in the
process similar to where I'm saying now
in which it was an ancient structure
over you know structure they started
building it into a modern hotel with
modern amenities then for some reason
abandoned that construction effort it's
hard to see but here you can see these
scratch marks and once again I'm not
really sure if that's the ancient ones
ancient carving of the cave or more
recent
here again look at that
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because there is just layers and layers
of history here in Cappadocia the
Cappadocia ins are mentioned in the
Bible it is on the Silk Road and so
there was much see Nevada's modern brick
right there and then is that recent or
older I do not know and so uh it was on
the Silk Road and so there was lots of
different peoples coming through here
and lots of war and turnover of various
civilizations and so you'll find
evidence over thousands of years of
various peoples occupying this area
alright let's keep going this way I did
this yesterday and it's a little bit of
a rough trail but it does work to get up
to the top up there and so because of
the war that occurred in this area then
people at one point we tweeted
underground so there are entire cities
built underground I visited one when I
was here a decade ago
daran qu you it is a vast network of
tunnels and caverns that go down like 12
stories and it could house up to 50,000
people the entire city could be shut off
by rolling one stone across the tunnel
and then do that and boom nobody can get
in there and they're completely safe and
so they just lived in there for who
knows how long and
it has not really known even when they
were first constructed because it's hard
to date that
and there you go that is Cappadocia and
the little town of getter mae and my
hotel is just right down there somewhere
and you can see here a good example of
these fairy chimneys sticking up out of
the ground and those are completely
natural formations the strange
landscapes just keep going and going in
every direction and so there is so much
to see here if you come to Cappadocia
try to stay for a week if you can
because you can easily use up a week or
more seeing even just a fraction of what
there is to see here and so on that one
right there I can see a little window in
the side of that and so there is a cave
in there
and so out there is the classic sunset
point and I came here and watch the
sunset yesterday it was totally
jam-packed with people there and there
was nobody here or up there so if you
want to watch the sunset without a big
crowd around you then just come over
here and so I'm going to walk down into
the town and give a little more taste of
via town up close and so there you can
see some old door in a old cave and here
also and here is a cave hotel that is
the ascension cave Suites garibay
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lots of new cave hotels under
construction it sounds like so look at
that that is going to be the very very
old who knows how old caves and like
little shelves probably there were
wooden walls
and again affair a pretty big cave right
there
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that is a big hotel
and this is downtown Gera May
a mosque which blasts the Mosin
the call to prayer and I can hear it
very clearly from my hotel room I heard
it early this morning
and I have a rental car just up there
so I'll be exploring around
my car in the coming days I just arrived
day before yesterday
so this is the classic Turkish ice-cream
experience
and so it's a really pleasant little
town for being the like tourist central
area all the you know tourist stuff
restaurants and tour book and ATM
machines that try to rip you off I'm
gonna make another video about that and
there seems to be a classic car show
look over there let's get up closer I've
been seeing lots of old cars in town
here
all right lots more coming from amazing