14 Februari 2014
Kami tiba di hotel hampir pukul 7 malam. Kami menginap di Dinler Hotel Urgup. Walapun ia hanya bertaraf 3 bintang di negara kita tetapi di Turki ia diiktiraf sebagai hotel 5 bintang yang pertama di Urgup.
15 Februari 2014
Hari ini kami menghabiskan masa sepanjang hari di Cappadocia, melawat tempat-tempat menarik yang menjadi kegemaran para pelancong dari dalam dan luar negara.
Cappadocia berada di bahagian Central Anatolia. Apa yang menarik di sini ialah lanskap mukabuminya yang kelihatan seperti "permukaan bulan" di sekitar bandar-bandar Ürgüp, Göreme, Uçhisar, Avanos dan Mustafapaşa. Sebahagian dari kawasan ini telah menjadi Warisan Dunia Unesco. Jadi kalau datang ke Turki, datanglah juga ke sini kerana kita akan berpeluang melihat hasil ukiran ciptaan Allah yang begitu unik dan indah sekali.
Mengukir bukit menjadikan ia tempat kediaman |
Hutan bukit cendawan |
Lembah Goreme
Petikan dari http://travel.nationalgeographic.com
Erosion shaped the incredible landscape of the Göreme valley, but thousands of years ago humans took a cue from Mother Nature and began carving an incredible chamber and tunnel complex into the soft rock. Beginning in the fourth century A.D., an urbanized but underground cultural landscape was created here.
Ancient volcanic eruptions blanketed this region with thick ash, which solidified into a soft rock called tuff .... tens of meters thick. Wind and water went to work on this plateau, leaving only its harder elements behind to form a fairy tale landscape of cones, pillars, pinnacles, mushrooms, and chimneys, which stretch as far as 130 feet (40 meters) into the sky.
But human hands performed equally incredible works here. The rocky wonderland is honeycombed with a network of human-created caves; living quarters, places of worship, stables, and storehouses were all dug into the soft stone. In fact, tunnel complexes formed entire towns with as many as eight different stories hidden underground.
Göreme was inhabited as early as the Hittite era, circa 1800 to 1200 B.C. and later sat uncomfortably on the boundary between rival empires; first the Greeks and Persians and later the Byzantine Greeks and a host of rivals. This precarious political position meant that residents needed hiding places and found them by tunneling into the rock itself.
The site became a religious refuge during the early days of Christianity. By the fourth century Christians fleeing Rome’s persecution had arrived in some numbers and established monastic communities here. The monks excavated extensive dwellings and monasteries and created Byzantine frescoed paintings in cave chapels beginning in the seventh century, which endure in well-preserved isolation to this day.
Göreme is rich with history, but not all of Cappadocia’s troglodyte dwellings are museums. Some still serve as homes and others as hotels, which offer a truly unique hospitality experience.
Jikalau berpeluang datang ke sini bolehlah mencuba tidur di hotel dalam gua seperti yang disebut dalam artikel di atas. Walaupun kami duduk 2 malam di sini tetapi kami telah ditempatkan di hotel biasa. Inilah salah satu daripada kekurangan melancong bersama agen ...... semua siap diatur, tiada pilihan.
Inilah hotel '5 bintang' kami.....Dinler Hotel di Urgup .... Foto dari Mr Google |
pagi 16 Feb 2014.....Dinler Hotel |
Jom makan di restoran dalam gua ....Uranos Sarikaya |
Kawasan sekitar restoran |
Tempat duduk dan meja dalam restoran yang unik.... 'mengelik' sementara menunggu hidangan tengahari disaji .... ikan trout bakar sebagai menu utama |
Kami dihiburkan dengan alunan muzik tradisional Turki ....lihat hiasan dalaman yang mewah |
Pemain muzik memperkenalkan dirinya kepada rombongan kami |
Tidak pasti apa nama kilang karpet yang dilawati, tetapi inilah luar bangunannya yang tertulis.... Yunak MH. Haci Hafiz Efendi Sokagi |
Bahagian dalam bangunan .... dihiasi karpet yang indah |
Sesi mempamerkan koleksi karpet yang ada dalam stok |
Contoh karpet yang dipamerkan |
Ni pula sesi menunggu.....bila lah nak habis promo ni? |
Ada 2 lagi aktiviti menarik yang kami buat di Cappadocia iaitu "Hot Air Balooning" dan melawat "Undergrond City" di Kaymakli. Kedua-dua aktiviti ini akan diceritakan pada entri yang akan datang insya Allah.
Kembara Turki - Underground Cities in Cappadocia
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