Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts

Sunday, 5 May 2013

Sunday, 20 November 2011

Cave City



Zelve (Cappadocia), Turkey

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Sultan Ahmed Mosque

Also known as the Blue Mosque (1609-1616)
Istanbul, Turkey

Saturday, 12 December 2009

Hagia Sophia

This building was originally constructed as a church between 532 and 537 A.D. and was in fact the third church to occupy the site (the previous two had both been destroyed by riots). It was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years.
Istanbul, Turkey

Tuesday, 21 July 2009

The Turquoise Coast


Mediterranean Sea, Turkey

Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Zelve

The rocks of Cappadocia (Turkey) eroded into hundreds of spectacular pillars and minaret-like forms. The volcanic deposits are soft rocks the people of the villages carved out to form houses, churches, monasteries.

Friday, 16 January 2009

Pamukkale

Pamukkale, meaning 'cotton castle', is the name given to the site where a hot spring emerges in what was the exact middle of the ancient city of Hierapolis, south-western Turkey. When the water of this spring surges over the edge of the plateau and cools, carbon dioxid is given off and calcium carbonate precipitated as hard chalk.
You can hardly see the water on the pics but it's running down the hill.

Thursday, 6 November 2008

Göreme

Capadoccia, TurkeyThe rocks of Cappadocia eroded into hundreds of spectacular pillars and minaret-like forms. The volcanic deposits are soft rocks the people of the villages carved out to form houses, churches, monasteries. Göreme became a monastic center between 300-1200 AD. First period settlement reaches to the Roman period from Christianity. It is a complex comprising more than 30 rock-carved churches and chapels containing some superb frescoes, dating from the 9th to the 11th centuries.