that's Cappa-dough-kia or Kapadokya
I was on the overnight bus to get here. It was an OK bus ride, for an overnighter. The company in Pamukkale conned us all when we booked. We thought we were on a bus to Goreme but in fact we had a dolmus to Denizli then but to Goreme. changing is always a hastle to find the right bus and this was no exception. A few of us were talking while we waited and we all thought the same thing but I suppose you get that. Our bus was a through bus from somewhere else so we had to wait and it was a few minutes late so we were starting to think we were in the wrong place. It eventually showed up.
When I got on there was some d*** in my seat. He wanted to sit and hold hands with his mate and they were offering me the seat in front. I got a window seat and they offering an isle...not gonna happen. I told him to get out. This bus really did have a trolley dolly, female. our first stop was 1hr 20min after we left, which I thought was a bit soon. We stopped for about 20min at a truck stop for way overpriced food or drinks. As soon as we left the trolley dolly did her thing and bought around drinks. What? I suppose it wasn't a bad idea cos lots of us had drinks. That was the last we saw of her ALL night. She sat up the front with the driver swilling coffee while we got nothing. Coffee in the morning would have been great.
We stopped about every 2hr during the night which was good to get out and stretch. Always at an overpriced truck stop with all the other busses. At the 5.30 stop it was 3 degrees outside and felt every bit of it.
We spent most of the night travelling through flat farming land, like the wheatbelt kind of farming land, and get to Goreme in the hills. Everywhere around town is up or down hill. You know one way is going to be up hill. We got here at 7.30 so I looked for food but nothing was open. I looked for a hotel to stay and found a room at Terra Vista. It is nice and includes breakfast, so do all the other hotels that is why no shops open for breakfast. The town is all about the houses cut into the rock. Whole towns exist underground. The town is full of hotels, some are in caves and the ones that are not call themselves a cave hotel and they are covered in stucco to look like a cave, and tour booking offices and balloon flights and not much else.
I booked in but couldn't get into my room so I walked to the open air museum. It is an old monastic settlement dating from about the 11th century. It was a little disappointing cos a lot was roped off but what was there was pretty cool. I went to take a photo and got told off, there was a sign outside that said "no photo" I didn't see it and now I think there was that sign all around the place. too bad I got some photos. The last place there they were guarding with 2 guards cos it was the best. I had to sneek around the corner to get some photos there.
This arvo I just walked around town and I am doing a tour tomorrow. I will also try to get some photos of the balloons over town tomorrow. This morning there was about 40 balloons and it looked spectacular. They do it every morning.

This morning I went up on the roof to watch the balloons. It was pretty spectacular but not so good for photo's cos they were going into the sun. I counted 61 when I got up there at 6.30 but some were down by then and they were still coming. There could be 100 balloons here every day? Not bad money, 10 people in each at 100euro.
I might add some more here tomorrow.