Goreme, Turkey, Europe I took a hot air balloon ride over Cappadocia today and it was incredible! It started with a ridiculous 4:20am wakeup call, but it all ended up being worth it. I was picked up at my hotel at 4:45am and I was the first one in the van. We went to a few other places to make some pick-ups. The first people we picked up were two Colombian sisters who are travelling together. They were lovely. They…
Goreme, Turkey, Europe I got to see Cappadocia today and it was brilliant! The day started out with a pretty good breakfast at the hotel on the terrace overlooking the village of Goreme. My tour guide picked me up at 9:30am with three Chinese girls from my hotel too. We got on the bus to find out the rest of our tour group consisted of four more Chinese people, and two Koreans. That is a pretty good representation of what…
Goreme, Turkey, Europe I got up today to see it was yet again raining in Istanbul. Apparently this city just doesn’t want me to see it in all its glory. No bother, I had to get packed up and get myself to the airport anyway. I caught a couple of trams and made it to Ataturk airport with plenty of time to spare. My flight to Kayseri went as scheduled and I sat next to a really nice girl on…