Avanos reminds me of  the Wild West films that show deserted streets while playing an eerie whistling tune? You look up the street and then down the street. You complete a full 360 degree turn and the only thing to be spotted is a stray dog searching through the bins for scrap food. That is the perfect way to describe Avanos. It is a ghost town that seems to have been forgotten and left off the map. Since I was in the area, I went to have a look around Avanos but I especially wanted to see the red clay pottery that the town is famous for. Avanos is roughly a 15 minute drive from Goreme and...

Turkey’s Cappadocia region is considered to be one of the most beautiful in the country. The region known as Cappadocia or Kapadokya in the native Turkish, is situated in Central Anatolia and is known the world around for its moon-like landscape and its mysterious underground cities, churches and houses carved into rocks. The wonderfully weird and unusual rock formations called fairy chimneys were created over the span of millions of years of rains and winds and due to the interesting characteristics of the region the human culture that has inhabited Cappadocia ever since prehistoric times has...

Kapali Carsi (Grand Bazaar) Istanbul is worth seeing for the shopping alone. And the Kapali Carsi or “Abgedeckt Bazaar”, in the old town is the logical starting point. This labyrinth of streets and passages houses more than 4,000 shops. The names recall the days when each trade had its own quarter “goldsmiths’ street”, “carpet sellers Street”, “The street of the skull cap of makers”. You sit down for tea with some of the seller and let them enchant you to buy a few souvenirs that you never realized you wanted. Pamukkale Chances are your first...