"A walk on the moon, in Turkey
By Lauren Kornreich
CNN
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GOREME, Turkey (CNN) -- "These are the fairy chimneys," our guide Alec said, pointing to a hill covered in large, strangely shaped rocks. "This one is a camel. That one over there is the Virgin Mary."
The sun sets over Goreme, a monastic community for early Christians.
After driving from the Kayseri airport for an hour surrounded by sunflower fields on a flat, two lane road traversing Turkey's Anatolian plateau, the landscape changed drastically from an even plain to something resembling the moon. My mom and I couldn't believe the sight of these giant objects randomly emerging from the ground."
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