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- Hot air ballooning above Cappadocia
- Uçhisar, Cappadocia
- Beginning a hot air balloon flight in Cappadocia
- Balloons over Göreme
- Early Christian cave church, Göreme Open Air Museum
- Erciyes Mountain, 3916m (12,848'), viewed from Uçhisar castle
- Göreme, seen from Uçhisar castle
- Balloons over Göreme, Cappadocia, at sunrise
- Inside the Basilica Cistern
Constructed in the 6th Century as a reservoir for Constantinople's water system. - Sun shining through the Turkish flag, atop Uçhisar castle
- Mausoleum of Sultan Selim II and his family (1577)
- Inside the Hagia Sophia
Completed in 537 AD, this was the largest Christian cathedral in the world for almost 1000 years. After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, it became a mosque. It is now a museum. - Pigeon Valley, near Göreme
- Inside the Süleymaniye Mosque
Built in 1558; it is one of the largest mosques in Istanbul - Stadium, ancient Aphrodisias