Cappadocia
Nature
A land of stone towers with houses carved inside them.
Millions of years ago volcanoes covered this part of Turkey in soft ash that hardened to stone. Wind and rain wore it into cones and pillars, which people call fairy chimneys.
The rock is soft enough to carve. For thousands of years people have cut houses, churches and whole cities into it. One city under the ground goes eighteen floors deep and could hide thousands of people.
- floors under the ground
- 18
- deep
- 85 m
- people could hide there
- 20,000
- 1
Some of the cave houses are still lived in, and others are hotels.
- 2
Every morning at sunrise dozens of hot-air balloons rise over the valleys.
- 3
The underground cities had stables, kitchens, wells and heavy round doors of stone.
Question 1 of 2
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