The first day, a Thursday, we did not go far. John took a walk in the morning. In the afternoon, our wonderful host, Mustafa, drove us up to the G�reme Open Air Museum.
1 Morning light on fairy chimneys
2 Hills and rocks
3 Strange landscape
4 Close-up
5 View of the Uçhisar "castle" in the distance
6 A house among the chimneys
7 Göreme's "Roman Castle", a Roman tomb cut into a fairy chimney
8 Convent carved out of the rock, Göreme Open-Air Museum
9 Tourist inside one of the carved churches
10 Actually, we were not supposed to take this, but did not yet know about it; besides, no flash.
11 Swedish tourist at the Göreme Open-Air Museum
12 Convent and rocks in the evening sunlight
13 Towards the "Dark church", the large opening one floor up on the middle-left
14 Inside a smaller chapel
15 Small church
16 Karanlık Kilise, or Dark Church
17 incredibly fresh-looking wall paintings (not really frescoes) inside the Karanlık Kilise
18 Karanlık Kilise
19 Steep stairs leading up to another rock-cut chapel
