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| Faruk's youngest son. |
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| Delicious breakfast buffet at Kismet Cave House |
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| Our clothes drying on the rooftop of Kismet. You can see the top of our fairy cave. |
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| The view of Goreme town. |
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| Everywhere you look you see these ancient cave homes and churches |
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| After Phyllis and Gwenn arrived we all went out for dinner. I had never seen this puffy bread before. |
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| Carpet market on the way to view point after dinner. |
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| Carpets drying outside a home on the way up to the hilltop |
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| Yet another interesting cave dwelling |
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| Many tourists and some locals go uphill for view of sunset every day |
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| View of Rose Valley to the backside |
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| Unfortunately, we didn't have time to do a horse ride through the valley |
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| If Maya were still alive we would have definitely rented horses |
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| A tourist takes in the view at sunset |
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| The sun sets over the town of Goreme, Turkey |
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| Michelle, with her aunt Phyllis, and our new friend Michelle |
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| Phyllis at sunset |
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| Michelle at sunset |
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| Another example of ancient Cappadocia architecture |
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| Night falls over downtown Goreme as we walk home to our cave hotel. |
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| The next morning I was up at 4:30 a.m. so Faruk invited me to join his family for some work in the orchard. The youngest boy slept, but the littlest girl woke up later. |
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| It was cool to watch the launching of all the hot air balloons while we worked. |
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| They all came our direction because of the wind. When Michelle and I went up a few days ago, all the balloons floated over the town instead. |
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| Hard at work weeding the grapes |
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| Neesa woke up crying, so her mom brought her into the field. |
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| Faruk was yelling at them to go away. Of course he was joking and they were waving at us. |
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| Another shot of the gringa helping with the weeding. |
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| This guy runs his hotel, is doing construction on a new home, and works his crops. I don't know when he rests. |
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| Faruk stopped to buy bread for the breakfast buffet and for his family. |
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| The baker at work at 7 a.m. when we came back from weeding. |
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| A last look at our charming cave room. |
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| Michelle was especially excited to see that we have a bathtub, which I actually used once during our 4 days in Goreme at the Kismet Cave House. |
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| Phyllis is mapping out our route with Faruk and our driver who speaks Turkish and German. That means I get to interpret for the other 3 women while we're traveling together. |
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| Our hosts, Faruk and his lovely wife, bid us farewell |
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