Photos from Turkey

- Making friends with sweet, tiny kitty cat in Cappadocia - SOOOO wanted to take him with me...


















- Hanging out with the Turkish flag at a look out point in Cappadocia


















- Sunset at Nemrut Dagi. This is where a megalomaniac king (Anticos) built a monument to himself, which included huge stone figures of himself, Zeus (who he believed was his father) and gods from other regligions.

- Me and Zeus' head...(fyi, the head fell off the bodies due to an earthquake about 50 odd years ago)...I've now tried to have a chat with him about 'what I should do with my life' in both Greece and Turkey, and I still haven't had an answer...getting cranky, I must admit...

- Super cool pic that Brad took of Turkey's largest Ghost Town, Kaya Koy near Fethitye.


















- Hundreds of years of Calcium deposits in Pammaluke have created beautiful travertines.

















- It looks like snow, but trust me, it ain't soft! It's rock solid calcium deposits. Quite neat.

















- Amazingly well preserved relief of Nike (goddess of victory) on a marble block at Ephesus, which is probably Turkey's biggest tourist draw, as the site is about 3000 years old and is incredible. The city was first founded by the Amazon women (the ones that cut of their left breast so they could shoot arrows better...) During pagen times, it was the site of the Temple of Artemis, which was one of the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World. Alexander the Great conquered the city in 334BC and it passed to Rome in 133 BC. It was the second most important Roman city for a couple of hundred years. The Romans that lived here were amazingly advanced. They had hot and cold running water in thier houses (at least the rich ones did), they knew the world was round, and they had a beautiful, well maintained and well protected library (see below) that was the social and cultural hub of the city. Furthermore, in order to make the extreme climate of the Mediterranean more ammeanable, they carved shallow channels on either side of the major road ways; in winter they would run hot water through the channel to warm the air and in summer they would run cold water through it to cool the air. The same idea applied to the public toilets - a huge bath of cold or hot water would ensure a comfortable temperature, and constantly running water through the room would ensure that it never smelled. In winter, a slave would be expected to sit on the concrete toilet for a few minutes to warm up the seat for his master! Wonder what that would look like on a current resume....


















- The library at Ephesus. I want one...


















- This is not just a picuture of a foot. This is (according to our guide) the world's oldest advertisement. It was the marker for the brothel in Epheseus! The sign has the foot carving, also a carving of a woman's face, a currency symbol and a love symbol! So it meant that love could be found with woman inside, but only if you had the money. The reason that the foot was there, is because they would not allow young boys inside, so your foot had to be bigger than the one carved in order to be allowed to enter! Funny, eh?




















- An honest (and funny) merchant at one of the many rip-off-tourist-gouging-shops at the exit point at Ephesus.