Cappadocian Landscape

Made of volcanic tuff, Cappadocia in central Turkey is full of valleys with eroded rocks in unbelievable shapes and colours.

View at the landscape with the two tuff cones containing the Kepez churches. Other completely eroded tuff rocks show that originally they also contained some caves (churches?).
Cappadocian landscape directly underneath the Meskendir cave church.
Tuff rocks in the Meskendir valley between Göreme and Çavuşin.
The open-air museum of Zelve covers two parallel valleys with hundreds of cave hoses, churches, chapels, mosques and a mill. People lived here until the late 40s of the 20th century, when an earthquake destroyed many caves. Another earthquake in t...
Cappadocia is an eroded landscape of volcanic tuffstone. Wind and weather created rocks in the strangest shapes.