Goreme Open Air Museum
Today we rose early in order to beat the tourist buses that come into Goreme at 9 o’clock. Goreme Open Air Museum is a cluster of rock cut churches, chapels and monasteries. It was a Byzantine monastic settlement that housed some 20 monks and then it became a pilgrimage site from the 17th century. Most of these churches and chapels only have one source of natural light- the doorway. On the walls of these little chapels are frescoes, some of which are remarkably well preserved. We explored and meandered around the village and then in true hobbit spirit we went to get second breakfast, just in time to see the tourist buses descending on the museum!
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