Göreme Open Air Museum, Cappadocia

Snow! We woke up to a couple of centimetres of snow across everything. Since we were up early, we went exploring a potentially different sunrise spot but Google Maps was definitely wrong with this one. The spot that had been marked was up a backtrack and eventually required us to scramble up to the top of a dirt mound on all fours to get anything close to a view. The fact it was cloudy and no real chance of a sunrise made it more of an adventure rather than a sunrise anyway so all good. Definitely cool to be out in the snow.

As the weather was pretty drab for the day we locked in an admin day and hung out at the hotel most of the day. After lunch, we walked about 1 km out to the Göreme Open Air Museum. Being highly regarded as one of the “must-do’s” we paid the entrance fee and wandered around the site. The museum is a collection of caves that have been made into churches all consolidated in this one area. Each of them decorated with intricate fresco paintings. As one of the most accessible places to enter the cave-houses, this was pretty impressive. Little did we know that we would find even more impressive churches in the surrounding valleys completely on their own. And with no “Museum” or line of tourists in sight 😉Read more