Kaymakli Underground City

In addition to all its other attractions, Cappadocia also has several underground cities--places where the Christian or other communities could literally go underground and live for a time while marauding or crusading armies marched through. We chose Kaymakli, which had eight levels, four of which are now open. It accommodated 3,000. Derinkulu, nearby, could accommodate 10,000, they say.

Rather than being underground, strictly speaking, Kaymakli was built into this 
ridge 

Tourist entrance to Kaymakli

Whatever; it's another World Heritage Site



Looking down one of the corridors

It was reasonably well signed, but we engaged a guide anyway--the guidebooks 
said to--for a mere $15 we got to hear, three times, how the citizens of Kaymakli 
solved their "toilet problems"

For defense, or if the neighbors wouldn't turn down the music, the citizens 
could close off passages by rolling these really heavy stones into place

Vicki in one of the smaller passage-ways; not a place for 
claustrophobes



Flat-screen TV would have been very popular; but then all the satellite dishes would 
have given away the location of the city

In the (common) kitchen area, our guide said, this was the spice rack

All in all, I did not think the underground city was all that 
great; I later amused myself in the adjoining bazaar