A landscape so imaginary and weird that it's hard to believe it's made by nature. The soft underlaying volcanic rock has been shaped by time, wind and water and left in the most fantastic formations with harder boulders balancing on top of tall rock chimneys. To add further magic to the place the mountain sides and underground have been dug out for housing, monasteries and even whole underground cities for thousands of years. It was in these multi levelled underground complexes where the Christians hide from the Romans to escape their prosecution. Some of the cities are more than 80 meters deep with eight floors and could accommodate more than 20.000 people. It's a truly unique place and you can even sleep in some of the many cave hotels in the area.

The impressive covered bazaar with more than 4400 shops (we haven't counted) is one of the largest in the world. The first souq dates more than five hundred years back and has been extended and rebuild several times since then. The beautiful streets take their names from the goods that was made and sold here. Today it's less grouped but carpets, pottery and leather still have their own areas. Several hundred thousands people pass by here every day, and the prices of the nice goods have ascended with the massive flow of tourists on tours. Hard bargain is expected and some might find the buying pressure from the wily stallholder too intense. Keep in mind that this is the place, where they invented catch phrases like "looking for my shop" and "can I help spending you money".

Nemrut is a mountain in eastern Turkey. So far nothing special, but in the first century B.C. king Antiochus build something mind blowing on the dusty summit. Huge statues (8-9m) of himself and a number of Greek, Armenian and Persian gods, and to top it of, an artificial peak of stone rubbles which is believed to be his tomb (but nobody knows). Today the statues are broken into pieces that are scattered on the mountain top, but the giant heads are still gazing proudly over the plateau below.