So good morning. We're in an organic farm breakfast, Turkish breakfast
that Vittoria is gonna taste for the first time, it's delicious.
Hey guys, this is our 3rd day.
And I'm on my way to Ihlara Valley.
And the road is like freakin amazing.
This is Hasan Mountain.
It f*cking looks so good.
The road is empty and I'm loving it, enjoying it so much right now.
Yes people! So...
This is Ihlara Valley.
Of course I'm always trying to be adventurous.
I hope I won't die again today (just kidding)
It's freakin beautiful, it's like pure nature.
Okay so, this is Ihlara Valley.
It's super natural.
It's full of bird sounds,
it's full of animals, it's full of bugs too.
But still, I don't know.
The ambience here it's
I don't think, like I've been to lots of places.
Like lots of lots of places in the earth.
All the nature.
Because like I love nature, being in the nature
but this is something else.
This is like, you're in a valley.
It's not open, it's closed.
You're in your home.
It's like a house. It's like your mom just cooked you
a fresh baked cake and you just arrive home
and it smells so good, it's something like that, the feeling.
There are lots of blue dragonflies.
In Turkey, dragonflies bring luck.
I feel super lucky to see like every one of them.
I'm trying to take videos of them but of course they are no super friendly.
Okay so we're right now in Yılanlı Church.
Yılanlı means in Turkish with snake.
So there are lots of animals and I'm not gonna lie
I was a little bit scared there would be a little bit like small snakes.
But there is not.
So it's beautiful inside.
It's one of the most important churches here in Ihlara Valley.
And it's little bit far because
the route is actually, I'm gonna show you right now.
We're in the right side.
There is also a left side. When you go down, you go down from the left side.
So like if you cross, it's a little bit like, you feel a little bit lonely.
Because everybody walks from the left side.
So just walk from the left side, and then
you'll see yılanlı church and then cross from the bridge.
And walk a little bit, you'll see a beautiful road
which I just like showed you
And then you'll be here.
My suggestion would be just try to find some view points.
I'm always like riskin my... I don't know.
I'm always looking for higher points.
Look at this valley, like it's amazing.
it's seriously amazing.
So it took me harder, it took me faster
to go up than I go down.
because when you go up, you don' t have the view.
So I just ran.
Get water with you.
Like 1 liter.
If you're gonna walk whole the valley I'll suggest 1 liter.
There is a restaurant in the middle.
Between the...
Okay there is a middle point called Bellisırma.
And here is like the start point.
.And it between there is a cafe restaurant
I think there will be toilets so don't worry about peeing.
So just get water with you.
It's beautiful view.
So, now...
I'm leaving the first part.
Because like normally when you go with a tour,
you start from the beginning point,
Omg I'm scared of my tires.
This car is so shitty, it's like f*cking shitty.
Normally you start and then you walk to the middle point
and then the tour comes and gets you so
I'm not gonna walk that far, because then I have to go back
and it takes lots of time
We're moving to the middle part.
And after that we're gonna go back to Kaymaklı Underground City.
I hope I'll have time.
Vittoria is waiting for me at the hotel.
Well, like I don't know, I drove just like
It's one hour from Goreme, it's not that close.
So check out the place that I randomly found.
Seriously I'm crying.
This is like so pretty.
This place is like amazing.
Normally they serve like food, this is a restaurant.
And I said like can I just like have a coffee and sit there?
They said it like yeah sure, because it's empty.
I cannot believe like I found this place, guys, here is incredible!
I'm in the valley, I'm still in Ihlara Valley.
This is like in the middle.
Look at the f*cking view.
Look at the f*cking view!
So here we standing,
in Belisırma.
A high point of Belisırma.
There is a church and there is a Bezirhane.
I think Bezirhane was the place where they make the wine maybe?
I'll check. I don't remember, I don't know.
I don't know what it means in Turkish.
So you have to walk up like a little bit of a hill,
it takes about like 5 minutes to come here and
I can see Ihlara Valley like in a different way.
I cannot believe I can still hear the frogs.
Like how loud can they be? And here they're like super loud.
Guys, like
I don't know, like
this is...
I don't know, it's like canyon,
it's beautiful, I don' know.
It's like photoshop, like come on.
Who put the trees there?
F*ck. It's f*cking amazing.
Okay so Bezirhane, I learnt.
Bezirhane is the place where they made the bezir oil.
Bezir oil was the special oil, it was from a local weed.
Not smoking weed, like regular weed.
They used to like crush it so well and they were extracting its oil.
And then they were using it like in candle light? With lightning? What was it called?
Okay this is a proper church, this really is a church.
Think like the beginning of the century and look at all the architecture.
Look at all the details.
It's so destoyed, I feel so sad about destoried art.
The idea of how it was before it was destroyed.
It's like freakin incredible.
I'd say like this, this church is one of the masterpiece of their time.
Not just the floor, the ceiling.
Sorry guys I'm not wearing my belt.
This lake is f*cking beautiful.
How beautiful is this? It's located when you're going to Ihlara.
It's a great detour
One, it's beautiful. It's seriously beautiful.
This is a volcanic lake.
Like this... Okay, lots of bugs.
This is a volcanic lake.
As you can see like on the background
As I'm gonna show you
There are like some shapes
There are some chimneys.
The belief here is the lake is, actually it brings health
and luck.
So they believed that this lake really healed
some of the diseases and they were really good at your health.
They were like, people were coming here taking baths,
to get better and they were like taking water to use them like in a religious kinda way.
But it's actually proved that this lake is actually really termal.
It has like bicarbonate, calcium, sodium and all the stuff.
So if you really take a bath here, okay if you take just once it won't work
but like if you take baths here you really get better, they say that your skin gets beautiful.
And there is a hotel, a termal hotel.
I'd love to stay there and I hate to say
like, here is, it's undiscovered treasure.
Here is amazing.
The lake is blue, it's all kinds of green
You can see it's steady but the wind makes it like the perfect pattern there.
It's perfect, here is really really perfect.
Okay guys
we are in a volcanic field.
So, like all those, we are actually
we're pretty far away from Cappadocia but as literal sense
Literal
L I T E R A L
In exact sense okay, (gave up)
Cappadocia is a pretty big area.
So it includes all of those areas are normally belong to Cappadocia.
All of those are happened more or less the same century.
Look at those.
Can you believe, these are like created by nature, they happened by chance.
Super termal, of course around this area there are lots of termal water.
Actually, yeah I was too Turkish.
So I got little bit of water (from the lake).
I don't know what I'm gonna do with that.
I think I'm just gonna like, wash my hands once in a while or something.
Or wash my face, I hope it's clean.
You can also swim in the lake.
But I don't know, I wouldn't do it.
Because you cannot really see what's in there.
It's a little bir unclear.
It's not a clear lake.
We're gonna go to an underground city.
This was a detour, I was not meant to stop here, but I'm super glad I did.
And I'm seriously recommending al of you guys to stop here.
It's amazing again, everything is amazing.
So this is a living room.
It's like amazing, the architecture.
Look at the windows, the peepholes.
So, this is Kaymaklı Underground City.
It has 5 floors, and I'm at the first one right now I just got in.
It's like, super narrow, but it's so spacey. I can breathe so well.
I don't feel underground at all.
Omg, it's beautiful.
Oh, that window that we just looked.
I bet like they were all talking to each other and everybody could hear each other
so it was like really easy.
Also they had some private rooms.
I think here is also a living room.
Oh I wanna know where this is go.
Here is actually pretty scary, because I'm here by myself.
I don't know what room that was,
Guys, wow, like here is wow.
It's so complicated.
There is no end, there is always a passage.
But I wanna just follow the red signs.
I love this, I freakin love this.
I want this in my living room.
I'm gonna steal this architecture in my living room.
Look, look, look!
I don't know where that goes.
Hey! So first step and the second step.
Omg. Amazing.
So good.
(In Turkish) So beautiful.
Thank you.
Good morning guys. It's 5am in the morning.
We woke up super early to watch this beautiful view.
So the sunrise is at 5.32 am.
And I wanted to see from where the balloons take off.
But apparently there are lots of locations so we couldn't find it.
So we come up here, this is a sunset point of Goreme.
So we have like all the down valley, kind of valley.
to see every balloon rising up.
In 10 minutes, every balloon will be up
and, omg it's gonna be so romantic.
We did our sun salutation.
Now we are going to Sultan Caves.
to rest there and enjoy a little bit.
There are still some balloons rising,
so that means that we have solid 40 minutes
of ballooning.
Which is perfect! Yeah.
I was really committed on waking up.
So I did.
Yesterday we missed the ballonning watching.
Here in Goreme, you can spot
this Turkish flag, it's up in the hill.
That's our point.
But like, here is really good,
but I'm gonna suggest you to go the National Park
to watch them a little bit more closely.
It's like 6 almost, not even 6 yet.
We came back for the, the view from the back.
Thank God, our restaurant is open!
So we're gonna have coffee! Coffee!
Hey guys.
This is our last day, last hours here.
We slept like only, in total 5 hours.
But we divided into 2.
So like we slept 2 hours and then 3.
We're like f*cking tired.
This is Cavusin.
It's only like 7-8 minutes driving away from Goreme.
Super close.
So right now,
We're walking up in Cavusin,
and there is an old church.
So we're gonna find there.
F*ck. You can also come with a car here.
You could come with a car here, we left it down.
Okay so, this church...
Cavusin is also important in Christian education
during I don't know what kind of century, like super early in time.
This church is, wait let me read it to you.
Church of Saint John the Baptist Church.
It's the first biggest church here in Cappadocia.
Omg, it smells so bad.
Here is Pasabag.
It's right after Cavusin.
Around this area
you see the best versions of fairy chimneys.
(In Turkish) No, thank you.
I love when people think I'm a tourist
and I'm just a regular actually Turkish.
We've been walking around all of these
for days and
I've never touched a chimney.
I'm gonna touch it right now.
Fairy chimney!
Omg it's empty.
It's like your new fake wall.
This place is incredible.
Let's climb again.
Guys, wow.
Okay we're in the old houses area in Avanos.
This place is also in Cappadocia.
But it doesn't have the chimneys.
It has pottery, it has the Red River.
And it has the handcraft stuff.
So it's still a must to come here.
Because, just to walk around
you can really see all the shops and all the
souvenirs, they are really handmade.
They are like purely purely unique,
really special.
Wow, they are like so smooth.
I wanna buy them, I don't know why but I wanna.
Look at the mud!
It's still in my hand.
F*ck. Okay I'm gonna just...
Okay this place is...
...really nice.
We can ask for prices.
So like one plate, it takes one whole month to make them.
Omg, I love the blue, the Turkish blue.
This is our last stop.
The iconic photograph point of Urgup and also Cappadocia.
How ugly my hand looks right now, wait.
These three fairy chimneys are really the best ones.
Because like I don't know,
their position, they are like together,
and I don't know for me, they look like a family.
Like for me, this one is the mom,
this one is the child and the other one is the dad.
They are like a family together.
Okay so stop listening to me and read the freaking story about the Three Graces. It's a mythological story.
We're so tired, we're like dying.
Right now I'm just gonna sleep.
This is like a one hour flight.
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