Anywhere You Can Find Yourself?

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Can you imagine a ride overlooking the panorama of volcanic valleys and landforms of a kind that's never seen on the planet? If you can, tell me how it could be one the most amazing?

Yes, you guesstimated correctly! Balon! Balon! Balon (English: Balloon)! It'd be possible if you take a hot air balloon ride:) Allowing an inside look at the atmosphere, so waving, so amazing even looking at these photos, don't you think so...

Oooh beauty over beauty!

These young beautiful ladies are posing in their bathing suits even though there's still powerful aura around them. I don't know how they can manage to work in this fairy tale land...;)


Best models look alluring, powerful, and...

very feminine in this year's swimsuit issue and,


tasteful photos in Sports Illustrated. Did you buy your February issue of SI? You could find more 2009 Turkey shots here as well.


Carved the rocks. Adorned the stones. Built churches. And chapels. And temples. Built houses. Streets. Cities. They put love into every detail. They even built houses for pigeons in the speechless rocks. And this is when the rocks began to speak to nature itself.

So- the region enjoys a beauty created not only by the hand of man, but mainly by the nature. Rocks composed of various minerals and metals eroded due to climatic conditions and movements of the earth. Valleys, canyons, nature-sculptured rock statues, fairy chimneys came into being.

The name of this area is Cappadocia, or Kapadokya as we call in turkish, where Christianity had taken root in the 3rd century AD and was an especially learning center of Christian theology. Placed in the middle of Anatolia, as described in the ancient Persian tongue "Land of Beautiful Horses" it's the oldest heart of the world.

More than being a place where history, architecture, nature and scenery have been blended in perfect proportions, there's a message to the future from all those who came here. Because Cappadocia has inspired every community that came here. Look who came and gone here: Cappadocians, Persians, Byzantines, Seljuk Turks, Hittites, Phrygians, Greeks, Armenians and Ottomans lived in Cappadocia. All those who came here worked to build themselves a new world.

Isn't it easy to understand why every spot is mysterious and rich history here. It's said that even from the same spot you can never take the same picture twice, because Cappadocia is always changing and mysterious!

Recently visited Alan Solomon, reporter from Chicago Tribune could not say better than this "Here, it's possible for anyone to find himself." Continue to read his article A different world from the city. A different world than just about any place you have ever seen. Planet of the cones here, in Turkey, in Cappadocia

This is why people come here not only for holidaying but also to see, to learn, to touch the traces of the past.

And, I long for nothing so much as a day as blue and brilliantly colored as in this photo, and me inside seeing the magic with my eyes which conveys the fantasy of the valleys and hills of Cappadocia. This Spring I'm planning to go to Kapadokya and especially take this balloon ride. I'll touch the traces of the past like many other millions of millions visitors had done till now. Because it's a very long waited travel on my wish-list. Can't wait! I officially count the days!


Looks like Swimsuit Edition team should have also enjoyed their ride when they landed -as there was nothing 'not beautiful':)

Your Editor's Special Note: There are lots of happenings here around me and also in Istanbul, in Turkey! Good and exciting, different and unheard. Wanting to do more of writing. I have so much to say and so little time to say it:) Maybe I'll need to build up my editorial team...