Wall Art Photos of the amazing Cappadocia Rock Formations – One of the great tourist destinations of Anatolia Turkey is amazing Cappadocia and its Fairy Chimney rock stacks. Made out of soft volcanic tuffa rock people made cave dwellings in the rock pillars and rock formations. Photos by Paul E Williams
Beautiful Cappadocia Rock Formations
Cappadocia is an area of spectacular rock formations that have been used as rock houses for thousands of years. The whole area has been covered with hundreds of meters of volcanic ash that has compressed into Tufa rock. Water has eroded into the landscape leaving valleys with steep cliffs and towers of rock known as fairy chimneys.
Tufa is soft and since prehistoric times people have made cave dwellings which are linked from small doorways via internal stairs that run up inside the fairy chimneys or cliff faces.
This created easy to defend rock castles that could house towns of several thousand people like that at Uchisar, where the rock houses run the full height of a towering rock face.
I hope you enjoy my photos of this truly magic part of the world and, if you haven’t already, I hope you get to visit Cappadocia one day.
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