When we woke up we could finally enjoy the beauty of the impressive landscape of Cappadocia. As you read everywhere, nobody was yet able to express how amazing the views are. So, when you really want to know about it, I suggest you to visit the area and see for your self!
After breakfast we went back to Kaymakli where you can go into one of the 50 (or more yet to be discovered) underground cities in the area. The underground cities where first build around 4000 years ago by the Hittites and served as a refuge in time of war. The city we visited has eight floors and approximately 800 houses in addition to many communal areas. Our guide estimated between 5,000 and 10,000 meters of tunnels. During the peace times the inhabitants lived above ground and cleaned the city underground and supply with fresh food. Everyone had to pay taxes and the richer the family, the higher the ceiling of your house underground was (and a location higher to the surface). We took a guide to show us around and tell us a bit about what all the rooms were used for. We had the guide Moustafa and were done in half an hour… A bit to fast (his excuse was the Japanese group behind us) for the € 17.50 we had to pay him but it was always nice to get a bit of information.
After an excellent lunch back with chorizo-sausages, cheese and a recommendable white wine from Lebanon at the Flintstones pension, where the rooms are carved out of the volcanic rocks, we took a walk through town. Actually, we wanted to go to the open air museum but took a wrong turn and ended up on the hills with a perfect panorama view of Göreme with the pinnacles. These rock pinnacles, in which houses were build, was formed by erosion of the softer rock with the harder rock on top of it (sometimes it is just a small stone on top). It is like what you can see with rocks on melting snow only much bigger (Ap, thanks for pointing the snow "pinnacle" to me last summer in the Alps).