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Turkey has for thousands of years been the gateway between Europe and the Middle East and Africa. Here early man assembled for religious rituals and to build his first cities. Great kingdoms grew up and left their monuments strewn across the landscape – the Hittite empire was succeeded by the Phrygians, the Persians conquered from the East and were driven back by Alexander the Great from the west. The Romans ruled as far as the Euphrates and many of their cities still occupy impressive coastal sites. They were succeeded by the Byzantines, then the Selçuk Turks. Violent but short -lived incursions by the Mongols were followed by the rise of the Ottoman Empire. At its heyday it stretched from Mecca to Hungary, but by the First World War had shrunk back to its heartlands. Turkey emerged from the ashes of war as a struggling but independent, secular republic and gradually built itself into the vibrant, modern society you see today.
Many of our routes represent periods of our history. They thread their way between ancient sites and historical cities, using old roads, sometimes marked by caravansarays. The coastal routes dip down to harbours from which forgotten fleets ruled the seas.
Welcome2Goreme.com Live! Cappadocia Travel Information
Welcome2Goreme.com is now online. The website runs on Joomla 1.5 CMS and an Artisteer template, that I have tweaked to my liking.
Welcome2goreme.com shares the love for the central Anatolian region of Cappadocia in the heart of Turkey. Welcome to Goreme is the first independent portal with travel information for travelers by travellers. Lots of detailed travel information and dynamic images on Cappadocia with its fairy chimney landscapes. We inform you about outdoor activities like trekking on hiking trails through Goreme National Park and snowshoeing in the valleys or hot air ballooning. travel photography of Cappadocia and information of destinations and villages like cavusin, Uchisar, Goreme, Ortahisar, Ibrahimpasa, Urgup, and many others.Check out our recommendations for accomodation in Cappadocia and especially the cave hotels and pensions.
Welcome to Goreme is the first independent portal with travel information for travelers by travellers. Lots of detailed travel information and dynamic images on Cappadocia with its fairy chimney landscapes.
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<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/the-valleys-in-cappadocia-turkey">central Anatolian region of Cappadocia</a> in the heart of Turkey. <a href="http://Welcome2goreme.com">Welcome to Goreme</a> is the first independent portal with travel information for travelers by travellers. Lots of detailed travel information and dynamic images on <a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/the-valleys-in-cappadocia-turkey">Cappadocia with its fairy chimney landscapes.</a> We inform you about <a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/the-valleys-in-cappadocia-turkey/ihlara-valley-the-deepest-in-anatolia-turkey">outdoor activities<a> like <a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/activities-ballooning-biking-hiking-touring-snowshoeing-in-cappadocia-turkey/hiking">trekking on hiking trails through Goreme National Park</a> and <a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/winter">snowshoeing in the valleys</a> or
<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/activities-ballooning-biking-hiking-touring-snowshoeing-in-cappadocia-turkey/ballooning">hot air ballooning.</a> <a href="http://www.photoshelter.com/c/adventure4ever/search?I_DSC=cappadocia&I_USER_ID=U0000c9dYXn9dWPI&I_DSC_AND=t&_ACT=search" target="new" >travel photography of Cappadocia<a> and <a href="http://Welcome2goreme.com">information of destinations</a> and <a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/historical-villages-of-cappadocia">villages</a> like <a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/historical-villages-of-cappadocia/cavusin-village-in-cappadocia-turkey">cavusin</a>, <a hraf="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/historical-villages-of-cappadocia/the-village-of-uchisar-cappadocia-turkey">Uchisar</a>, <a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/historical-villages-of-cappadocia/the-village-of-goreme-in-cappadocia-turkey">Goreme</a>,
<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/historical-villages-of-cappadocia/the-village-of-ortahisar-cappadocia-turkey">Ortahisar</a>, Ibrahimpasa, Urgup, and many others.Check out our recommendations for <a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/living-in-a-rock">accomodation in Cappadocia and especially the cave hotels and pensions</a>.
New! Customizable Photo Books
Looking for more ways to make revenue with our photography we came up with the plan to start producing adventure travel photo books. There is no money to be made anymore in photo books you would say?
Maybe not in the traditional printing industry. But take the Digital Printing, where each book can be personalized and customized to the receiver and you have a whole new ball game. Adventure4ever.com now produces photo books, for tour operators and tourism boards. By adding their company logo and message they receive a perfect regional portfolio in the shape of a hard back photo cover photo book.
Taking this product a step further, we have put this photobook with corporate message of the region online where the gueast of that Tourism Region can add their own pictures to new pages in the book. This way they get the ultimate photobook, with their own images included. The book will be on the coffee table for a long time making the happy travellers unofficial ambassadors for the Tourism region.
Snorkeling with a Loggerhead Turtle in Kas, Turkey
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It does not happen very often that you see Loggerhead ( Caretta Caretta) Sea Turtles in Turkey anymore. After a Gulet Cruise with friends, Jillian Nico and I were hanging out At the Kas Camping when Nico spotted this old Turtle while snorkeling. Exited he called us over and Jillian picked up her Canon G10 with the underwater housing. Given the fact that I did not expect to get any good photo’s without proper experiece on the camera, I decided to try a movie. Here is the result: a gracefull Turtle gently gliding through the water. What a super wildlife experience!
Diving with Annie the Dolphin, Curacao
Well my ear is well and truly buggered, but I will be buggered if I am going to pass on a dive with a dolphin. So I brave the stinging salt water that runs into my throat while I pass the 10 meter mark. The dive is not much deeper and a perforation of the eardrum does not actually suffer from the dive, because there is no imbalance of the pressure. Anyway I am sure it is not recommended, but so far… 10 days later when I write this I have no earpain.
The instructions from Gearge the Dolphin trainer of the Dolphin Academy are clear: let her Annie, the dolphin come to you, and don’t start reaching out right away. If you stick to that, she will hang around.
And hanging around she did. For a full 30 minutes she races over the reef like a dog of his leash, to come back to us and play for a while. Soon Annie becomes cuddely with most of the divers, interacting with most of us.
I can immagine how much swimming with a dolphin must mean for autistic children, because by the time I surface I almost feel sane again 
. Although Anne Marie of Habitat seems to think I should go for 2 more sessions , to even come close to sanity.
Even though Annie was captured in the wild in Central America, she was trained in a record 6 weeks and goes out to open sea regularly, without wanting to disappear. Dolphins are very intelligent underwater mammals, so I guess if she wanted to get away, she would have done it a long time ago. In the meantime she has convinced me that she is having a good time playing around with landbased mammals of a dive. After diving with an Elephant this is the next best thing I have experiences and I am glad that I decided to withstand the ear trauma.
Annie comes to Jillian for a cuddle
Diving the Mushroom Forest on Curacao, Netherlands Antilles
Another year, another dive destination. Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles, where 70% of the tourists come to dive…. must be something good then. It has been a while since we were last underwater with a breathing apparatus. I still have fond memories of diving with Rajan, the swimming elephant of Havelock Island in the Indian Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, last year.
This time we are in the Caribbean Sea, and the water is getting to a nice 27 degrees Celcius. From the Habitat Curacao Resort we start with a boat dive on Mushroom Forest. A beautiful dive site full of mushroom shaped coral formations.
This is the maiden voyage of my new 8″ dome port for my Nikon D200 Ikelite Housing. With the Sigma full feame 12-24 mm mounted, the postbody was not wide enough, so I had my friend Nico Bodewes, widen the port with two mm to accomodate the lens and was able to customize a zoom ring that fit the narrow space.
The Dive is going well, and my ears… always the weak link, seem to adjust well to the local pressure. After a good 40 minutes we surface with many good shots for the story.
The second dive was a bit more eventful than I planned for. Halfway through the dive, a loud zipping noise splits my right ear and the world starts spinning for a while. I signal to the divemaster that I need to go up…. Jillian, my buddy has a new camera, and 2 buddying photographers with tunnelvission, we now find out, does not work as we have temporarily lost contact. Salt water is eating away at my inner Ear and I know I am buggered with a perforated eardrum for the rest of the trip… and months to come. @#$@$#@$
Life goes on and I will have to concentrate more on the landbased photography.
Earthquake in the Abruzzo of Italy
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This morning TV brought the first images of the devastating powerful earthquake in Italy’s Abruzzo mountains. Epi centre is the town of l’Aquila where Jillian and I spent a full week covering the regions beauty for Dutch travel magazines. The main story was just about to go to press, but developments in the coming hours as the news breaks, will tell us about the state of the emergency situation there. There are no reports at this time about the destruction of other villages that litter the mountains.
The Piazza del Duomo, before the Earthquake struck l'Aquila in the Abruzzo Mountains of Italy
200 Kilometers south of l’Aquila we visited Pasetta, a colourful mountain man who is the grandson of the last wolfhunter of the Abruzzo. Based in the medieval village of Barrea he runs a camping La Genziana. When we called him this morning to check after his health he answered: “Everything is OK here, there is no damage in Barrea. I was doing a pipi this morning when the tremour started, It is not uncommon so I went back to bed.”
Pasetta, grandson of the last wolf hunter of the Abruzzo mountains in Italy
Turkish Viagra Really Works??? This is not an ad!
I was just browsing through my archive to research some pictures for a magazine publication, and came across this picture from the Egyptian Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey. The bazaar is known for its oriental spices and pastries and sweets. What less people know, is that it also offers a very succesful Natural Viagra! I guess the salesperson is the best advertisement for the product
At the time of taking pictures, I had to smile about the Viagra sign, as all they sell is a jar stuffed to the brim with nuts and honey, according to the Turks a major aphrodisiac. As my eyes panned to the right I suddenly bcame aware of the big belly and a picture was born. Stealthilly I focussed my wide angle on the honey and the unsuspecting woman became the crown on the picture. I think I am slowly discovering the secret behind the large families, some of whom have up to 12 kids.
Istanbul is a vibrant city and I can recommend anyone to come and see it. Check out all the images in this photo gallery of Istanbul, Turkey