EGG-STREME BUGS
Don’t throw out your leftover egg cartons. Instead, turn them into creative decorations such as bugs
of the body.
Cut pipe cleaners in half.
Push one piece in each punched hole. Bend to form legs and antennae.
Glue on wiggle eyes.
Use markers to add details such as dots and lines on bugs. GÖREME NATIONAL Park and Cappadocia are a unique design of nature with slopes full of fairychimneys, rich water resources at the base of the valley, abundant flora, and numerous rock cut, frescoed churches.
Göreme, located among the ‘fairy chimney’ rock formations, is a town in Cappadocia, a historical region of Turkey. It is in the Nevsehir province in central Anatolia.
The density of its rock-hewn cells, churches, villages and subterranean cities within the rock formations make it one of the world’s most striking and largest cave-dwelling complexes.
The landscape, entirely sculpted by erosion, provides unique evidence of Byzantine art in the post-Iconoclastic period.
Cappadocia was sculpted out of the tuff of the Erciyes and Hasan mountains through millions of years by sand and water erosion.
Sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams and ignimbrite deposits that erupted from ancient volcanoes during the late Miocene to Pliocene epochs, underlie the Cappadocia region.
The rocks of Cappadocia near Göreme eroded into hundreds of spectacular pillars and minaret-like forms. People of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia region carved out houses, churches and monasteries from the soft rocks of volcanic deposits. Göreme became a monastic centre in 300–1200 AD.
Among Göreme’s historically important sites are Ortahane, Durmus Kadir, Yusuf Koc and Bezirhane churches, in addition to the richly decorated Tokali Kilise, the Apple Church, and a number of homes and pigeon houses carved straight into the rock formations in the town.
Göreme National Park and Cappadocia were placed on the World Heritage List in 1985.
Hot-air ballooning is very popular in Cappadocia and is available in Göreme. Trekking is enjoyed in Ihlara Valley, Monastery Valley (Guzelyurt), Urgup and Goreme.