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Ortahisar to Ürgüp, different route

I like the area north of a valley between Ortahisar and the Ürgüp-Mustafapaşa road and south of the Ortahisar-Ürgüp main road a lot. An important reason is that, though the landscape is wild and beautiful, one rarely meets other tourists. The “foxes country” walk elsewhere is in this area also. I thought I knew it very, very well but in November 2014 I managed to get lost twice (for half an hour or so I did not know where I was and worse, where I was going). On a third trip I decided to thoroughly find out what went wrong, and I think I found out, so my mental map of the area has improved a lot. To my utter surprise I almost immediately ran into a group of adjacent churches I had not spotted earlier, hence a sub-gallery of them.
This sub-gallery I group with Ortahisar, it being my starting point. I started at, roughly, the roundabout where the Nevşehir road goes to either Ürgüp, Ortahisar or the starting point of a “Red Valley” walk, called Panoramix. I almost immediately went into the country south of that road. After some descent and maybe three hundred meters I came upon the church complex.

Captions will appear tomorrow.
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