Selesai melawat ke carpet factory tadi, agenda kami seterusnya ialah ke Underground City of Kaymakli, Gerome Open Air pula. Ini lah tempat yang saya rasa excited sangat nak pergi.
Teringat pada tahun 2007 ketika saya pertama kali melawat ke Turki ikut tour juga, saya rasa tak berani nak masuk ke sini bila dengar tour guide tu kata laluannya sempit dan macam-macam lagi. Ye lah, masa itu saya ni belum lagi suka adventure..
Bas kami berhenti di sini dan kami harus memanjat bukit sikit untuk sampai ke sana. Ketika pendakian bukit tu, lalu lah seorang anak comel yang baru pulang dari sekolah. Saya pun ambik kesempatan untuk memeluknya dan bergambar sama.
Ini ialah rumahnya, dan kelihatan ibunya membuat unggun api, dia baru nak mula buat roti untuk makan keluarganya.
KAYMAKLI UNDERGROUND CITY
Underground Cities? These troglodyte cave-cities were excavated as early as Hittite times, and expanded over the centuries as various marauding armies traversed Central Anatolia in search of captives and plunder. There are 36 underground cities in Cappadocia and the widest one is Kaymakli underground city, while the deepest is the Derinkuyu Underground City.
Kaymakli underground city is built under the hill known as the Citadel of Kaymakli and was opened to visitors in 1964. The people of Kaymakli (Enegup in Greek) village have constructed their houses around nearly one hundred tunnels of the underground city. The inhabitants of the region still use the most convenient places in the tunnels as cellars, storage areas and stables, which they access through their courtyards. The Kaymakli Underground City has low, narrow and sloping passages. While the underground city consists of 8 floors below ground, only 4 of them are open to the public today, in which the spaces are organized around ventilation shafts.
The first floor of the underground city is the stable. The small size of this area suggests that there could be other stables in sections that have not yet been opened. The passage to the left of the stable contains a millstone door and leads into the church. To the right of the corridor are rooms hollowed out as living areas.
The church on the 2nd floor has a single nave and two apses. In front of the apses is an altar, and on the sides are seating platforms. There are also some living areas on this floor.
The most important areas of the underground city are on the 3rd floor. Besides numerous storage places, wineries and kitchen, the block of andesite with relief-texture found on this floor is very interesting. Recent research has proved that this stone was used as a melting pot for copper. The stone was not brought here from outside but was part of the andesite layer unearthened while hollowing. To be able to use it as a melting pot, 57 holes were carved on the surface of the stone. The copper ore, about 10 cm in length, would be put into one of those holes and would be hammered using a hard piece of rock. This technique has been known since the Prehistoric Periods.
The copper brought to the Kaymakli Underground City was probably dug from a quarry between Aksaray and Nevsehir. (The same quarry was also used by the people of Asilikhoyuk, the oldest known settlement in Cappadocia Region.)
The fact that there are a lot of storage rooms and places to put earthenware jars in the wineries on the 4th floor indicates that the people living in this underground city were economically stable. The ventilation shaft can also be seen from the 4th floor. It is a vertical well and passes all floors down like on the elevator in an apartment. The depth of the ventilation shaft is about 80 meters in total.
Even though the whole city has not been completely opened, and since only 4 floors have been uncovered, it is certain that Kaymakli is one of the largest underground settlements in the region. It is accepted as the widest underground city of Cappadocia, among the explored ones. The number of the storage rooms in such a small area supports the idea that a great number of people resided here. Archeologists think that this could have been up to 3500 people. [source]
seronok sebenarnya dapat menerokai dunia yang berbeza di bawah tanah ini..
laluannya tidaklah terlampau sempit, tika saya melaluinya masih ada ruang di kiri kanan saya..hehehee..
akak ni mesti sempat shopping ler tu.. senyum jer.. hihiii..
Setelah keluar dari gua tu, saya ketemu lagi dengan anak comel ini dan ibunya pula telah siap membuat beberapa keping roti. Kami bagai lembu dicucuk hidung, terpanggil dengan bau wangi roti yang baru dimasak tu.
Mula-mula bila nampak roti tu dah berderet, kami ingatkan dia buat jual. Rupanya tidak, cuma masak untuk keluarganya. Namun sebab kesian agaknya, kami dihadiahkan dengan sekeping roti yang besar itu untuk menjamahnya... Jadi, kami pun mencubit roti tu sikit sorang.. hmmm.. sedapnya!
wowwww..besarnya!
ok, jom naik bas balik..
kelihatan anak-anak di kampung ini bermain kejar-kejar di kawasan rumah mereka
Ke mana pula selepas ni ?
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