Very beautiful image. bravo

Do add some information if possible. I gather this is Eastern Turkey and these giant rocks have been chiseled up by the people there in the old days? Wonderful image, and perfect presentation!

Wowww, very beautiful & impressiv picture on these rocks and excellent color, lighting and composition!!! Good day ;)

I like this, a good shot!

Quite nicely done and exposure from the "alcove" to the pointed structures is just right. As with Chips, can you tell a bit more? Thanks for this photo.

Fantastic View - Can you say where it is please....

As fine a picture as any I've seen of the region, and obviously taken from inside one of the cave-dwellings. As for all the questioners, "Cappadocia," is sufficient. "Google" it. You'll find an amazing story.

Impressive shot.

Extraordinary postal. thank you

Very nicely done...great image..off to check Google for the story...

Great shot!

Great shot indeed!!! love the natural framing! and this place is impressive! Bravo!!!

impressive place and me too I would like to know more about this shot

Hello friends, something is here what I have found about Kappadokien on the Internet. For me it was the most interesting place in the two and a half years where I was in Turkey. I hope for it that everyone can understand the text since he was translated by a translater. You can find the text in German under http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappadokien You find more pictures of me from Kappadokien under http://www.willms.at/Lder/Tkei/Kappadokien.htm Greeting Jgen (jogi1302) Kappadokien from Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia A landscape is Kappadokien in Zentralanatolien in Turkey The area which is described as a Kappadokien is located in today's Nevsehir. One of the best known places is Geme with its cave churches out hit from the soft tuff. Name The name Kappadokien shall come from the old Persian as Katpatuka and mean country "of the beautiful horses". Geology The area consists and the Hasan Dagi of tuff of the volcano Erciyes who weathers only slowly because of the low precipitations. Harder rock stops so that the so-called fairy fireplaces are made. History The earliest traces of settlers date V . Chr from the time at 6500. The Indo-Germanic Hethiter already made the fertile floor to themselves . . to 1600 uses V and Chr cultivated corn. Later, the Phryger and Lyder came Chr the Meder, however, which was taken off by the Persians soon, then in the late 7th century V . . Had the Kappadokien roamed to the Alexanderfeldzug only briefly, what the previous Persian satrap Ariarathes I. used to safeguard its own power Kappadokien fell to the Makedonen? Perdikkas defeated Ariarathes I. 323 V Chr . . and Eumenes of corrie slide appointed new satrap. Ariarathes I. was prepared be son Ariarathes II . Diod shall have fled to Armenia, however, with some faithful ones (. XXXI, 19. 4 p.). Soon the Diadochen, however, fought themselves and Kappadokien also got into these power struggles. At first contrasted with himself in the first Diadochenkrieg Eumenes of corrie slide and Krateros. The battle could decide Eumenes for herself, Krateros fell. There, however, had fallen in Egypt Perdikkas, condemned the Macedonian army meeting Eumenes to the death. V Antigonos I. Monophthalmos which went Satrapie Kappadokien received the supreme command to Nikanor over the troops who should defeat Eumenes, Chr which, however, appears as a general of the Antigonos in the historical representations soon and thus also submit the Satrapie to it or at the latest 312 seems to have (either at 319 . . V . Chr.). Eumenes ., V some time could claim itself but in this Chr must finally spring 319 . to media flee. Antigonos could Chr claim its power over Asia Minor and thus also over Kappadokien in the second coalition war 316/15 - 311 V . . To Diodor Ariarathes II could . it still return to Kappadokien to life times of the Antigonos, where Amyntas defeated the strategists. In the north Kappadokiens had himself Mithridates I. created a sphere of influence of its own in the meantime, the later kingdom Pontos. Chr. in which Antigonos fell became the power newly after the battle of Ipsos 301 V . regulated over Asia Minor of the Diadochen. The ancient authors, however, contradict themselves on this point Lysimachos therefore got officially Asia Minor up to the Tauros. So Appian claims App Syr unlike Diodor, that Kappadokien went after this battle directly to Seleukos I. Nikator (. 55 (281)). V could Chr use Seleukos Asia Minor and with that Kappadokien at the latest however after the battle of Kurupedion in February 281 . . for themselves. The seleukidische claim to power about Kappadokien got, however, of the Ariarathiden fought and off approx. . 260 (or already early)?could this dynasty of the Seleukiden come loose, Kappadokien became an independent kingdom. At first still narrowly in conjunction with the Seleukidenhaus, the orientation of the Ariarathiden as of 188 changed V Chr . Had suffered against the romans the crushing defeat, the Antiochos III, shifted from the power conditions in Asia Minor once again . Dominated Pergamon, the Roman ally connected themselves the politics and the Ariarathiden as of now with the pergamenischen Attalidens. Moreover, the Ariarathiden got into conflict with the pontischen Mithadatidens, this one after the dying out of the dynasty in the mithradatischen wars should find its highlight. Also the Ariobarzaniden these of 95 V . Chr . till 36 V . Chr. Kappadokien ruled, with the pontischen had King Mithridates VI . Eupator to hold a tall opponent and long fights for the power. Primarily the Roman commanders Sulla, Lucullus and Pompeius were "allies" important to the Ariobarzaniden. 36 set V Antonius Chr . After the wars with Mithridates and the following hard years which brought stability and prosperity Archelaos as a new king about Kappadokien back, one. Emperors Tiberius prepared the independent kingdom 18 n Chr . . and it integrated as an imperial province an end. Kappadokien became a Byzantine province n Chr after the Roman empire dividing 395 . . The Isaurier invaded Kappadokien after Christ in the 5th century, the huns in the 6th century. The Byzantine army was defeated by the Seldschuken in the 11th century. The Turkmens and finally the Ottomans followed. Greek lived in the area since the ancient times, were compulsion resettled, however, to Greece in the twenties. The Greek dialect of this region, the Kappadokisch, is regarded as died out today. Population Kappadokien was regarded as a wild area with wild residents in the antiquity. ("A poisonous snake bit a Kappadokier once but it it died itself after tasted the poisonous blood hat" Anthologia Graecia 11. 237) Religion/culture Caesarea was an important diocesan town in the early Christianity. The three kappadokischen fathers who were from this area and lived predominantly there are well-known in ecclesiastical history. Kappadokien was one of the most important early Christian centres. Up to the year 1071 it was under Byzantine rule. More than 3000 churches which were discovered to this day there show the Christian past up to which which was enough for beginnings of the 20th century. The last Greek orthodox Christians left the region in the context of the great population exchange between the Turkey and Greece in the time period 1922 to 1924. Kappadokien lay at the famous silk road. The people living there were often attacked by many different aggressors. Therefore the residents have hollowed the soft tuff rock out to hide in this. Whole underground towns which, today, still can be seen came into being. Because of this active history of civilization and the breathtaking landscape formations the region was put 1985 of UNESCO as a world cultural heritage under protection.

One of the places the Apostle Paul visited on his missionary journeys. Thank you for sharing this. I have never seen this region of the world and it is most impressive indeed!!!!

This is a superb capture, Jurgen (I do not have little dots for your name on my keyboard, Sorry). I love all I see here. I notice the little things too. Glorious yellow flowers in the front of this shot! I saw this place once before, though the eyes of another worderful RR artist, Girsempa/Geert. Incredible place, outstanding work. Diane.