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Allie looking across to rooms used to house pigeons (rows of holes in the walls) - important for fertilizer and food
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Image of Jesus inside the Chapel of St. Barbara - many figures had their eyes scratched out in the middle ages due to superstition
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Crosses inside a chapel from a time when lifelike images were prohibited - these symbols, rather than frescoes, filled the churches during this era
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The mind-blowing frescoes from inside the Dark Church. These are considered the best preserved images in all of Cappadicoa
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Turkey is the first country in which I've traveled where western clothes are not the norm - I truly love and am fascinated by this very different form of dress
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Across the street from the Open Museum, unmarked and unadministered ruins await off the trail
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We find ruins of churches and living quarters, now used as occasional camp sites, but otherwise empty
