Sunday, 27 September 2009

26.09.09 Goreme to Malatya

We woke up in the morning to the most amazing sight of hot air balloons all around our hotel. This is a fabulous sight. We drove 380 km to the town of Malatya. The landscape changed from farming, to mountains of very dry arid land. This almost seems like we were driving through a desert. We have now entered Apricot country. We drove hours without even seeing a house and boom green apricot trees all over. We bought some of the dustiest and dried apricots from the road side. Checked into a luxury hotel in Malatya. We were totally pissed of that this hotel did not even have running hot water. After blasting them we found out that they have some problem with the heating. We had lovely lunch and dinner around the local bazaar. The food here is excellent and cheap. Daniel loves this hotel room since he has a king-size bed all for himself.

I dag kørte vi fra Goreme til Malatya en tur på ca. 380 km, vi kom igennem nogle meget specielle landskaber, ørken lignende landskaber med bjerge og uden en levende sjæl, meget tørt og bart, men også flot og anderledes. Så kom vi igennem landbrugsområder, det så igen det ud til, at de dyrkede kartofler. Tættere på Malatya var der mange abrikos træer. Det er abrikos område det her. I Malatya fandt vi et hotel som var lidt i den dyre ende, og så har de ikke engang varmt vand, øv, men Internet.
Folk her i Malatya er meget flinke og hjælpsomme, vi hyggede os med at finde både en restaurant til frokost og til aftensmaden, og det var endda billigt. Ca. 100 kr for aftensmad til os alle 4.

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