View towards the town of Uçhisar from a balloon over Cappadocia near Göreme in Turkey. Taking an early morning balloon flight to admire the sunrise ov

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View towards the town of Uçhisar from a balloon over Cappadocia near Göreme in Turkey. Taking an early morning balloon flight to admire the sunrise over the Dali-like landscape of Cappadocia is an increasingly popular thing to do for tourists that come here, with dozens of balloons taking off each morning. The landscape in Cappadocia is formed from compacted volcanic ash called "tuff" that smothered the land some 30 million years ago. Natural forces have since sculpted a wonderland of ridges, canyons and bizarre phallic protrusions known as fairy chimneys. People have been dugging caves for houses in the soft stone since prehistoric times, and also fortresses, such as the one in Uçhisar.

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