Cappadocia Day 2

Saturday morning we woke up early and went to an open-air museum. This was another city built into the rock formations. The rain from the day before had turned into snow overnight, so there was a fresh blanket.  This meant that as we walked between the sights snowball fights were constantly breaking out. The entire group had a blast walking around the city, exploring the rooms and churches in the rocks, and white-washing each other in-between.

Edip bracing himself for the first snowball

Caitie outside one of the churches

The view from the window of one of the houses

The group inside one of the houses

Our last major sight seeing stop was Uchisar Castle. We climbed to the top of one of the rock formations and took pictures of the city below.

Kasia and I admiring the view

Pelle (Holland), Adam, and I at the very top of the Castle

We finished off the trip with a wine tasting at a local winery and a tour of a local pottery shop. The wine tasting was pretty lame. Since it was a big group of us and we were students, they only let us try the two cheapest wines and pretty much ignored us. We were in the shop for a grand total of twenty minutes. The pottery shop was very cool, however. It specialized in traditional Turkish pottery, meaning plates, bowls, vases, Turkish tear-drop vases, and Turkish and Hittite decanters. We got to watch the master make a tear-drop vase. 

This is a Hittite decanter. They placed their arm through the hole and poured the wine over their shoulder.

We made it back to Ankara at midnight Sunday night, after getting stuck in the snow once. That was later than I wanted to stay up on my first school night, but the trip to Cappadocia was definitely worth it.