Our Balloon adventure started @ 5 am. We left the hotel for the starting point with our breakfast in tow. We decided to eat the food after the flight. Not a good idea as we did not get the same bus & lost control of our breakfast. The good news was that there was coffee, cookies and crackers before the flight.
The first vision was of the area filled with ballowns in all manner of color and designs. They were in varied levels of filling with air.
It was facinating to see them launch & fill the sky. We had to crawl up into the gondola. It was more of a feat for some than others. In any case we ended up laughing at ourselves and others as well. There were about 22 - 25 people in the gondola. The entire fleet is about 50 ballowns. I am not sure how many were out this morning but there were ballowns everywhere.
We floated over the Geome Open Air Museum, which we visited later. As we climbed over the fairy chimneys we could almost reach out and touch them. We floated over the entire area of valleys, into the valley walls. Up and down we went with ballows above and below us. We had a full view of the entire area which put the region into a complete context.
Later when we visited the sites on the ground it made even more sense to us. The peace and quiet except for the burner gave an almost erie feeling to the adventure. The terrain is such that one can imagine an even extra terresterial context to what we were seeing.
It looked like frosting cones lined up one next to each other.
Later we saw the cities nestled next to these surreal fairy chimneys.
Both were in congruity with one another yet oh so different.
It seemed wierd to have these two life styles side by side covering an expanse of time almos hard to comprehend.
This was the hi light of Cappadocia for us and an experience we would recommend to all.
MaryAnne Hegedas
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