Next we went to the Red Valley to look around and go for a little walk along the road. That wouldn’t have been enough for us, so we scrambled on up into the valley and its rock formations to see what we could see. We were supposed to be on a 15 minute walk, but turned it into a 30 minute hike; always with the car as our target point to hike to. The joys in being on a private tour.
We even had a light sprinkling of rain (our first in Turkey) just as we got to the car, although it only lasted for a few minutes. We continued back to Avanos to a pottery factory there, where we had a tour of how terracotta and porcelain were produced there, and how they are painted with different patterns and details, especially Hittite designs. We got to watch a demo of actually making a clay vase, and Nathan tried his hand at it rather unsuccessfully. We were there for a bit as Kim made a purchase, so made sure he got exactly what he wanted.
Our last stop on the tour was to the Rose Valley for the famous fairy chimneys. We were pretty tired by this point, so didn’t spend too much time or go around too much, but got a good look nonetheless.
Back at the hostel, we had supper there,drank our bottles of wine from the winery, and got all packed up for departing Cappadocia and our travel day to Selçuk.
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