Of course there are other more hard core (no pun intended) landscapes, more serious paths for the daredevils. There will be many more beautiful sunrises and sunsets. But this is as with many others, a place touched by something far beyond the comprehension of science. The lava may had cooled off millenniums ago. Ancient churches and monasteries will go on proclaiming the sanctity of religion's fervent pursuit for the hermetic lifestyle, and for others, salvation from persecution.
Whether odd faces or animal shapes tickle your fancy as you wander amongst walls of pink, eggshell and green, Goreme rocks through, at times, its bizarre representation of our wildest imaginations. For us, it was something like going back to something old and familiar in our travels and it's all about getting a bit lost to rediscover something new.
