We spent yesterday exploring one of cappadocia's underground cities. It was eight levels deep, the first levels were built by the Hittites, and the deepest levels were dug by the Byzantines and used to hide in when they were attacked first by the western Romans and then by the Muslims. They would burrow underground and use the deepest levels which you have to get through by crouching through narrow passageways easily blocked by big millstones. Even the ventilation shafts were really well hidden above ground. Our tour guide/the security guard who called himself "falcon" told us that 4-5000 people lived down there.
We spent the second part of the day hiking through a beautiful valley and climbing through old caves! It iwas so much fun! There are abandoned thousands of year old dwellings that you have to climb up to or crawl trough dark passage ways to explore. I felt like Laura croft.
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