Sunday, February 13, 2005
Shoulder Popping fun
Today will be spent walking for the third day in Cappadocia. It is actually a perfectly romantic place if you were here with the right company. Chris is good fun and a great guy to travel with, but I have lines and gender is one of them. Either way it is beautiful. It is quite the wierdest place ever, sort of like a cross between Narnia and Luke Skywalker's home planet. The landscape has been formed by the Volcano which can be seen in the distance threatening everything below it in a sort of cute way as it is topped in snow. It is a cross between water erosion and volcanic ash mixed with Christian Churches and let to sit for hundreds of years that has sketched the backdrop.
Large Penis like monstrosities dot the landscape
It is an orchard of ash cones that ascend from the valleys. Some with animal tracks in the snow as the only evidence of life and others with churches or homes inside . Many with walls down and others still with paintings on the walls. The views are amazing and the diversity of the portrait makes it an easy place to just walk around for hours. The peaks with rooms add an element of fun and adventure. There are caves and tunnels, cliffs and snow slides. It is an amazing place to wander and with the snow everywhere it becomes magical.
Someone's House - Belive it or not
We have spent two full days just walking, climbing and eating icicles. It was while I was climbing into the third floor of a "house" or old church (it was too weathered to say for sure) that I managed to injure myself. Chris had climbed to the third floor by using some footholds worked into the wall. The footholds lead to an enclosed area about 7 feet above the ground and directly over a hole that lead to the first floor. The enclosed bit had foot/hand holds on all four sides and was itself around 6 feet high. All of this is confusing I know, but really it was just climbing about a story or so over a hole that would put you down two stories if you fell while climbing. Chris went up with no issue. I also had little problem. I was around half way up with I used my left hand to lift myself and as it twisted a little my shoulder dislocated. Luckily I did not fall as it would have made for much worst injuries. I popped my shoulder back into place finished climbing up and then eventually down. It has since left me with quite a pain in my shoulder and lifting my arm above my head is an issue at which I tend to complain about, but all in all I am fine and today is another day of exploration. We have been having a very Indiana Jones last few days. We are even living in a cave!
Large Penis like monstrosities dot the landscape
It is an orchard of ash cones that ascend from the valleys. Some with animal tracks in the snow as the only evidence of life and others with churches or homes inside . Many with walls down and others still with paintings on the walls. The views are amazing and the diversity of the portrait makes it an easy place to just walk around for hours. The peaks with rooms add an element of fun and adventure. There are caves and tunnels, cliffs and snow slides. It is an amazing place to wander and with the snow everywhere it becomes magical.
Someone's House - Belive it or not
We have spent two full days just walking, climbing and eating icicles. It was while I was climbing into the third floor of a "house" or old church (it was too weathered to say for sure) that I managed to injure myself. Chris had climbed to the third floor by using some footholds worked into the wall. The footholds lead to an enclosed area about 7 feet above the ground and directly over a hole that lead to the first floor. The enclosed bit had foot/hand holds on all four sides and was itself around 6 feet high. All of this is confusing I know, but really it was just climbing about a story or so over a hole that would put you down two stories if you fell while climbing. Chris went up with no issue. I also had little problem. I was around half way up with I used my left hand to lift myself and as it twisted a little my shoulder dislocated. Luckily I did not fall as it would have made for much worst injuries. I popped my shoulder back into place finished climbing up and then eventually down. It has since left me with quite a pain in my shoulder and lifting my arm above my head is an issue at which I tend to complain about, but all in all I am fine and today is another day of exploration. We have been having a very Indiana Jones last few days. We are even living in a cave!
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