Climbing in Cappadocia

The first place we visited was an underground city.  It made me think of the cave system in Stephenie Meyer's The Host. 


Rolling stone door used to keep raiders out.

Ben ended up exploring deeper into the caves with Mark and Krystal Bowen while the rest of us took the kids back to the surface. While they were climbing around they came across the remains of  a cow and a sheep that were partially decomposed. Yuck! They also took quite a few pictures...as you might be able to tell by his face, Ben could have done without the photo ops. haha

 

 

Ben and the older three kids did lots of climbing on the hills and ruins, as well. It sometimes made me nervous, but they did really well. If you look really close in this picture you'll see two figures on the ridgeline...they're my kids...this is one of those times I was nervous.

 

 

There were cliff dwellings too.  We even saw some that were still occupied, but I don't have a picture of those.

 

 

Mark in a crevice

 

Ben and Krystal are up in that shadow.

 

I like this picture of Ben and Alex.



 

Climbing was by far Ben's (and the kids') favorite part of the trip.