Cappadocia (by Maggie)

Cappadocia is a region in central Turkey with lots of sand-rock mountains.  It is a fabulous place to hike, run, and get lost.  It is known for their caves and "fairy chimneys" that are actually rocky mountains. They are called fairy chimneys because they look like what you would build if you built a chimney to fairy house.  On our first day in Cappadocia, we hiked in and out of the fairy chimneys and caves.

Sometimes there were even paths to get into the caves.  As we kept going on our hike the views kept getting better and better and finally we saw Goreme, which was the town we were staying in.  On the hike there were many hills full of dirt that my brothers and I used as slides, while my mom and dad held onto the rope getting down. Cappadocia gets so cold at night that we even found some ice on the trail that we pretended we were ice skating with no skates!  We had a fabulous time on our hike!

The next afternoon we rode ATVs which was fabulous.  We went up and down hills and almost in caves.  I was on the back of the ATV with my mom driving.  I thought my mom was going to go really slow, but it turns out she went pretty fast, although she was still in the back!

One time when we were riding on a bunch of small hills, my mom lost control of the ATV for one second and we went "OOPS" down a big hill.  I was a little scared for one quick second but then I was fine.  As we continued to go up and down hills, we finally were at the sunset point where we saw the sun fade behind beautiful mountains.

When the sunset almost faded my brothers and I got to each ride an ATV for a little while with the guide.  

Finally, it was time to drop off our ATVs.  We said that if we stayed there any longer, we would ride ATVs every day but the next day it was time to go.  We wished that we stayed in Cappadocia longer!