photo sharing and upload picture albums photo forums search pictures popular photos photography help login
Patrick DEBETENCOURT | profile | all galleries >> Turkey - Discovering Cappadocia - Notre séjour de 9 jours en Cappadoce >> Discovering the Open Air Museum of Zelve tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Pictures taken during our flights to Turkey | Pictures of our hotel in Cappadocia : the Kaya Hotel in Uchisar | Uchisar and the pigeons valley - Uchisar et la vallée des Pigeonniers | Our first balloon flight with Maccan Balloons - My pictures | Our first balloon flight with Maccan Balloons - Christine's pictures | The fairy chimneys of the Pasabag valley between Cavusin and Zelve | Discovering the Open Air Museum of Zelve | Cavusin - Visiting the Nicéphore Phocas church | Discovering the Red valley and the beautiful Meskendir cave church | The village of Ortahisar | Visiting the village of Mustafapasa a greek village before 1924 | Visiting the Keslik monastery on the way to the Soganli valley | Discovering the Soganli valley and its numerous cave churches | Visiting the underground city od Derinkuyu | The open air museum of Görëme | Pictures of others cave churches near Görëme | A walk in the impressive Ihlara valley | Discovering the top of the Zemi valley | Pictures taken at the sunset point of Urgüp | Discovering the nice village of Urgüp | Our second balloon flight with Maccan Balloons - My pictures | Our second balloon flight with Maccan Balloons - Christine's pictures | cappadoce_2015_vallee_de_devrent | cappadoce_2015_vallee_rouge_sunset

Discovering the Open Air Museum of Zelve

We spent 10 days in Cappadocia from the 2nd to the 11th of july 2015. It was our first stay in this wonderful region of Turkey. We, of course, knew that this region offers spectacular landscapes, and that many carved churches decorated with superb frescoes could be visited, but we also met lots of welcoming and kind people, being happy to discuss with us about their country and their way they live. They are grateful with visitors coming to their country. Europeans are less and less visiting Turkey, they are in fact replaced by Chinese, Japanese and other Asian people.

We stayed in a very nice, and very well situated hotel : the KAYA HOTEL or Uchisar. It was built in 1964-1965, and was the first ever cave carved hotel in the world. The first two stares were carved by Uchisar folks in the stone composed of volcano ashes. The view from this hotel over Goreme valley and the Pigeon valley is breathtaking and each morning we could admire balloons flying over the landscape.

Cappadocia is a Turkish region very popular as a tourist destination, as it has many areas with unique geological, historic, and cultural features.

Touristic Cappadocia includes 4 cities: Nevsehir, Kayseri, Aksaray and Nigde. The most touristic towns in Cappadocia are Ürgüp, Goreme, Ihlara Valley, Selime, Guzelyurt, Uchisar, Avanos and Zelve. Among the underground cities worth seeing are Derinkuyu, Kaymakli, Gaziemir and Ozkanak. The best historic mansions and cave houses for tourist stays are in Urgup, Goreme, Guzelyurt and Uchisar.

Hot-air ballooning is very popular in Cappadocia and is available in Goreme. Trekking is enjoyed in Ihlara Valley, Monastery Valley (Guzelyurt), Urgup and Goreme.

Sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams and ignimbrite deposits that erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately 9 to 3 million years ago, during Miocene to Pliocene, which underlied the Cappadocia region. The rocks of Cappadocia near Göreme eroded into hundreds of spectacular pillars and minaret-like forms.

People of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia Region carved out houses, churches and monasteries from the soft rocks of volcanic deposits. Göreme became a monastic centre in 300–1200 AD.

The first period of settlement in Göreme goes back to the Roman period. The Yusuf Koç, Ortahane, Durmus Kadir and Bezirhane churches in Göreme, and houses and churches carved into rocks in the Uzundere, Baðýldere and Zemi Valleys all illustrate history and can be seen today.

The Göreme Open Air Museum is the most visited site of the monastic communities in Cappadocia, and is one of the most famous sites in central Turkey. The complex contains more than 30 carved-from-rock churches and chapels, some having superb frescoes inside, dating from the 9th century to the 11th century.

Please don't hesitate to leave a message concerning these galleries, or pictures, (a vote would be also appreciated !) If you're interested by my pictures, please leave me a message, I'll contact you. My e-mail address : patrick.debetencourt@hotmail

Vous pouvez utiliser l'option diaporama pour découvrir ces différentes galeries en cliquant sur le bouton "slideshow" en haut à droite de l'écran de chacune des galeries.

Si vous appréciez mes photos, merci de me laisser un message et/ou de voter pour ces galeries ou pour des clichés particuliers. Si vous êtes intéressés par une ou plusieurs photos n'hésitez pas à me laisser un message avec vos coordonnées, je ne manquerai pas de reprendre contact avec vous. Mon adresse e-mail : patrick.debetencourt@hotmail.fr
1079 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9060_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1082 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9063_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1084 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9065_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1085 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9066_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1086 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9067_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1089 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9070_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1091 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9072_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1092 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9073_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1094 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9075_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1095 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9076_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1097 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9078_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1099 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9080_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1100 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9081_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1101 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9082_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1102 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9083_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1104 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9085_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1105 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9086_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1106 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9087_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1107 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9088_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1108 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9089_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1110 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9091_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1111 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9092_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1112 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9093_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1113 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9094_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1114 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9095_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1115 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9096_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1117 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9098_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1118 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9099_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1119 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9100_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1120 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9101_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1121 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9102_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1123 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9104_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1124 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9105_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1125 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9106_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1126 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9107_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1127 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9108_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1128 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9109_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1129 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9110_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1131 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9112_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1132 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9113_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1133 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9114_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1134 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9115_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1136 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9117_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1137 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9118_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1139 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9120_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1142 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9123_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1143 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9124_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1144 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9125_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1145 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9126_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1146 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9127_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1147 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9128_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1149 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9130_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1150 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9131_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1151 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9132_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1153 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9135_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1154 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9136_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1155 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9137_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1157 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9139_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1159 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9141_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1162 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9144_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1163 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9145_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1164 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9146_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1165 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9147_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1166 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9148_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1167 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9149_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1168 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9150_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1170 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9152_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1172 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9154_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1174 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9156_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1176 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9158_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1177 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9159_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1179 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9161_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1180 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9162_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1182 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9164_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1183 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9165_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1184 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9166_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1185 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9167_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1187 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9169_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1189 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9171_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1190 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9172_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1195 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9177_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1196 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9178_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1197 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9179_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1199 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9181_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1200 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9182_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1201 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9183_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1202 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9184_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1203 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9185_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1206 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9188_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1208 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9190_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1209 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9191_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1210 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9192_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1211 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9193_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1214 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9196_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1215 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9197_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1218 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9201_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1219 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9202_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1220 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9203_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1221 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9204_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1224 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9207_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1225 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9208_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1226 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9209_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1228 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9211_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1229 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9212_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1230 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9213_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1232 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9215_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1233 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9216_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1234 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9217_DxO Pbase 3.jpg
1235 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9218_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1236 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9219_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1237 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9220_DxO Pbase 3.jpg 1239 Vacances en Cappadoce - IMG_9222_DxO Pbase 3.jpg