On my last day in Gerome, I was planning on walking through the Rose and Red Valleys, which are supposed to be supurb (I had seen them from a distance and hot air ballooned over them and was quite excited to get up close to them. I had just started my walk through the valleys when I met two people from my hostel at the first tea house. They were talking to the owner, who had decided that he was bored and wanted to take them on a motorbike tour-and as I was their friend he rang another of his friends and thus I was included.
It was a lovely day, taken around some of the superb valleys I would otherwise not have got to. There was Love Valley, so named because of the shapes of the formations (think back to the first valley I visited-its quite a common shape!), then one with what looked like a whole city carved out of the cliff. To get to this one we had to ride up the road which had turned into a river-a little hair raising at times!! Once we were there we climbed up into the church, two of us literally getting pulled and then lowered through the hole-an interestig experience.
We made it back to town just in time for me to collect my bags and catch my overnight bus to Istanbul, and thus I never did make it to Rose and Red Valleys-they will just have to wait until next time.
Back in Istanbul, I visited some museums, went on a boat tour up between the two continants, and bought some souvenirs before I had to head to the airport.
Unfortunatly the shuttle buses dont run all that frequently to the airport, and thus I had to arrive 6 hours before my flight, and am currently sitting on the floor waiting to check in, while using their free interent.
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