01/29/2024
Welcome to Goreme National Park, a remote and colorful landscape made up of dramatic rock formations in Cappadocia in central Turkey. The scenery has been formed by thousands and thousands of years of water and wind erosion and includes everything from impressive rock towers to fairy chimneys.
Humans have lived in the valley since the 4th-century, when they started crafting a network of interconnecting underground tunnels and villages. These were hidden below ground level as a way to stay safe from Arab invaders. Today, exploring these still-lived-in underground communities is quite remarkable. They even include chapels, storerooms, and secretive homes carved into the rock.