Describing the landscape of Cappadocia can be silly. Guidebooks use terms like: lunar-like, fairy chimneys, mushrooms, phalluses, but in Turkish, they're called kalelar (castles). The area was formed by several erupting volcanoes which deposited harder layers on top of softer layers of sediment. The erosion left behind the various castle shapes, valleys, and gorges. So, here are a few (!) of our pictures:

One of the (dormant) volcanoes, Hasan Dağ




And some people think that aliens were really responsible for forming all this:
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