Greetings Neuronauts:
The Turkey expedition has been really incredible for the past week, and i have to catch up with a few Blog Posts, to keep all you Archeo-Geeks updated on the latest findings and discoveries..
One of my Archeological dreams has been completed, that is visiting the infamous Derinkuyu Underground City, an enormous city that hosted over 50.000 People built over the course of history or perhaps by lost Atlantean Civilization in Pre-History..
So before we go into hard-core details lets get to the traveling part in how to reach this incredible location:
1.- From Istanbul, Turkey by BUS is the easiest way to reach the location on a tight budget, as for Hotel i recommend you to stay in Sopha Hostel located in Taksim Square, a great location near many important sites and a great vibe by the new owner from New Zealand..
You can catch the METRO TURIZM BUS, either online you can make reservation ( i had trouble making it ) but you might be lucky, or you can go to the office in Taksim Square and make the reservation, the ticket cost me $60.00TL which is $27.00US Dollars, you want to take it from the Auto-Garage to the city of "GOREME" usually is a night bus, try to take the latest so you dont get there super early in the morning like a zombie.
The bus makes many stops along the way which sucks, but if you get some shots of Tequila or you are a zombie then you be fine with it..
2.-From Istanbul to Kayseri Airport, last time i checked was like 100Euro for a one way flight, thats if you are on a tight schedule and you really need to get there or you just hate buses..
When you reach Goreme, make sure you stay in "Shoe String Cave Hotel" is walking distance from the Bus Stop, you tell them i referred to you Guillermo from Mexico..
Its an incredible Hotel built into a mountain, so all rooms are actual caves, really cool experience, incredible staff and very helpful..
Ok enough of the tourist info and get down and dirty with decoding the ancestral archetypes encoded in plain sight, for the re-awakening of a new golden age.. :)
So to get to Derinkuyu you have various options, depending of your level of adventurous and or budget..
1.- Go on a TOUR: Sit back and relax and let the Tour Guides show you around with a detail explanation of the site, including lunch, and visits to near by ruins and places of interests in the Cappadocia region.. Cost i think is $100.00TL
$46.00US includes transportation, meals, guide and Entrances..
2.- Rent a Scooter: This is my option the scooter rental i bargain for $50TL which is $23.00US for 8 Hours.. Plus a meal and the Entrance to Derinkuyu Cost $20TL $9.00US so it almost comes to be the same price..
I took my scooter with my Japanese friend i met in the hostel, and we went together, the drive was beautiful with incredible scenery.
Ok enough of the tourist info and get down and dirty with decoding the ancestral archetypes encoded in plain sight, for the re-awakening of a new golden age.. :)
So to get to Derinkuyu you have various options, depending of your level of adventurous and or budget..
1.- Go on a TOUR: Sit back and relax and let the Tour Guides show you around with a detail explanation of the site, including lunch, and visits to near by ruins and places of interests in the Cappadocia region.. Cost i think is $100.00TL
$46.00US includes transportation, meals, guide and Entrances..
2.- Rent a Scooter: This is my option the scooter rental i bargain for $50TL which is $23.00US for 8 Hours.. Plus a meal and the Entrance to Derinkuyu Cost $20TL $9.00US so it almost comes to be the same price..
I took my scooter with my Japanese friend i met in the hostel, and we went together, the drive was beautiful with incredible scenery.
if you have no experience driving scooter can get intense because you go in highway when you reach the near cities and also when you reach on the main highway, trucks passed by intensely next to you and sometimes they honk just to tripped you out..
In the way there way i pick up a hitchhiker from France his name is Timmy he is been hitchiking since france to turkey and he is on his way on the same route as i am but he is heading to Iran and Georgia and all this other countries around the east..
So after 100 Kilometer ride to Derinkuyu we finally made it to the entrance site, i was looking for a temple of some kind as being the doorway but there is nothing except an entrance built recently as part of the tourist attraction, and a big mosque of course to transform the meaning of the temple..
this is the entrance of the site, a feeing of creepiness actually as you enter the precinct
An extensive network of tunnels extending to over 16 floors and going as deep as 85 meters!!! the amount of people that were able to live in this structures surpasses the 50.000 people, why on earth would somebody want to live in this type of conditions, in such cramp space?
Here is a reference video of Derinkuyu
Take a moment to imagine that amount of people living in such a small living space..
Check out my video giving you a brief on Derinkuyu
There are stories that this site was built deliberately by the great Sumerian God Ahura Mazda, in order to keep his people safe from some form of Cataclysm.
is this the original Arc of Noah? is this what the bible was inspired by the holy texts of the sumerian civilization?
A very peculiar style of machinery was done in the site, with very strange cutting marks as if it was done with some advanced form of machinery, imagine firstable how do you cut so much rock and get it out of the tunnel specially in very tight spaces, imagine millions of cubic meters of rock, and where did all the rock was put outside the entrance because i didnt see any mounds or anything like that..
some of the carvings with numerous symbols and archetypes are scattered trough out the site, what this means?
Are we seeing a form of writing that pre dates antiquity?
Some of the tunnel networks extends to different chambers, where people used to live or participate in religious rights, some of them are stacked as if they were different platforms floors, very peculiar form of architecture..
Some of the tunnels varies by level in some passages can fit as much as hundreds of people in some only barely a person can walk trough them..
My homie Kazuho exploring one of the ventilation chambers scattered across the site. Was Derinkuyu a hide away from a powerful natural phenomena or a meteorite? How did this people had a warning to create this place? or were they helped with some advanced form of machinery? or did our ancestors possessed technologies that go beyond our current understanding of circuitry and machinery?
Some of this tunnels extend for up to 85 meters how the hell did they were able to carve a straight perpendicular tunnel?
Definitely some kind of advanced machinery took place here..
my friend exploring the entrances to one of the tunnels
this are the doorways that only lock from the inside, massive stone blocks that were only able to move from within, why were they hiding from what and why lock yourself out? if you really are trying to hide you dont want to be locked in is perfect tomb no?
Imagine walking down this tunnels with no electricity, living there for whoever knows how long? almost developing blindness.. Just the time i was there and i came out i couldn't see much after..
posing to the camera to show the perspective of how big this rooms can get allocating thousands of people perhaps at one point..
incredible feat of engineering to carve out so much rock, temples around the world are carved out and we are intrigued but this is another level of architecture and ingenuity..
Some of the cut marks while the machinery of the cutting procedure took place.
this is the entrance to one of the funeral chambers according to archeologist, just because they found a type of burial looking chamber, what was really inside this chamber? when i went inside there was 4 doors we had to go thru in order to reach the inside of the chamber..
This is the funeral chamber that i found inside one of the tunnels, what was inside this place and why was it kept so safe?
This is how it looks as you try to get out of the funeral chamber, intense no?
more doorways
more doorways perspectives
seems like there was a specific room for somebody to stay guard and make sure to close the doorway, there is a chair i guess in order for whoever stay there to make sure kept it safe and always alert..
this is one of my favorite rooms they say was a school what you think it is?
Another perspective of the picture above from the other side.. Perhaps the hall of records? the arc of the covenant?
Stairs leading to the inner earth..
another view of the ventilation chamber..
the doorway or entrance to Derinkuyu..
After the site we headed out to grab some food we were starving after intensity of exploring the site for hours, my recommendation is to eat as far away from the entrance of the site and find a local shop where locals eat and also where prices are marked :)
In the way there way i pick up a hitchhiker from France his name is Timmy he is been hitchiking since france to turkey and he is on his way on the same route as i am but he is heading to Iran and Georgia and all this other countries around the east..
So after 100 Kilometer ride to Derinkuyu we finally made it to the entrance site, i was looking for a temple of some kind as being the doorway but there is nothing except an entrance built recently as part of the tourist attraction, and a big mosque of course to transform the meaning of the temple..
this is the entrance of the site, a feeing of creepiness actually as you enter the precinct
An extensive network of tunnels extending to over 16 floors and going as deep as 85 meters!!! the amount of people that were able to live in this structures surpasses the 50.000 people, why on earth would somebody want to live in this type of conditions, in such cramp space?
Here is a reference video of Derinkuyu
Take a moment to imagine that amount of people living in such a small living space..
Check out my video giving you a brief on Derinkuyu
There are stories that this site was built deliberately by the great Sumerian God Ahura Mazda, in order to keep his people safe from some form of Cataclysm.
is this the original Arc of Noah? is this what the bible was inspired by the holy texts of the sumerian civilization?
A very peculiar style of machinery was done in the site, with very strange cutting marks as if it was done with some advanced form of machinery, imagine firstable how do you cut so much rock and get it out of the tunnel specially in very tight spaces, imagine millions of cubic meters of rock, and where did all the rock was put outside the entrance because i didnt see any mounds or anything like that..
some of the carvings with numerous symbols and archetypes are scattered trough out the site, what this means?
Are we seeing a form of writing that pre dates antiquity?
Some of the tunnel networks extends to different chambers, where people used to live or participate in religious rights, some of them are stacked as if they were different platforms floors, very peculiar form of architecture..
Some of the tunnels varies by level in some passages can fit as much as hundreds of people in some only barely a person can walk trough them..
My homie Kazuho exploring one of the ventilation chambers scattered across the site. Was Derinkuyu a hide away from a powerful natural phenomena or a meteorite? How did this people had a warning to create this place? or were they helped with some advanced form of machinery? or did our ancestors possessed technologies that go beyond our current understanding of circuitry and machinery?
Some of this tunnels extend for up to 85 meters how the hell did they were able to carve a straight perpendicular tunnel?
Definitely some kind of advanced machinery took place here..
my friend exploring the entrances to one of the tunnels
this are the doorways that only lock from the inside, massive stone blocks that were only able to move from within, why were they hiding from what and why lock yourself out? if you really are trying to hide you dont want to be locked in is perfect tomb no?
Imagine walking down this tunnels with no electricity, living there for whoever knows how long? almost developing blindness.. Just the time i was there and i came out i couldn't see much after..
posing to the camera to show the perspective of how big this rooms can get allocating thousands of people perhaps at one point..
incredible feat of engineering to carve out so much rock, temples around the world are carved out and we are intrigued but this is another level of architecture and ingenuity..
Some of the cut marks while the machinery of the cutting procedure took place.
this is the entrance to one of the funeral chambers according to archeologist, just because they found a type of burial looking chamber, what was really inside this chamber? when i went inside there was 4 doors we had to go thru in order to reach the inside of the chamber..
This is the funeral chamber that i found inside one of the tunnels, what was inside this place and why was it kept so safe?
This is how it looks as you try to get out of the funeral chamber, intense no?
more doorways
more doorways perspectives
seems like there was a specific room for somebody to stay guard and make sure to close the doorway, there is a chair i guess in order for whoever stay there to make sure kept it safe and always alert..
this is one of my favorite rooms they say was a school what you think it is?
Another perspective of the picture above from the other side.. Perhaps the hall of records? the arc of the covenant?
Stairs leading to the inner earth..
another view of the ventilation chamber..
the doorway or entrance to Derinkuyu..
After the site we headed out to grab some food we were starving after intensity of exploring the site for hours, my recommendation is to eat as far away from the entrance of the site and find a local shop where locals eat and also where prices are marked :)
Driving the Scooter along the Highway
Had some good lunch then headed back to town to return the bikes, but as we were heading out I spotted some ruins along the highway back to goreme,
I told my japanese friend to come check it out and this is what we found!!
Some ancient ruins just abandoned along the highway..
Beautifully carved doors and windows lost in history
Exploring some ancestral ruins along the highway road
They had tunnels similar to the ones in cappadocia
And this
What was inside this places and when was it bult?
Lost ruins
As we were heading back into the scooters a villager shouted is for us to come to her house, I had intuition to yes follow and we got out of the scooters and walk to her door step she offered us water and chai, and made us feel home, her daughter appeared and we try to communicate using signs and our limited Turkish vocabulary.
Then her sons arrived and we had a beautiful lunch and they were showing us a book of Turkish ancient sites, their heart was pure like gold, their eyes and smiles were genuine of good hearted people. Having chai and mingling with the locals
After lunch and log time of meeting them we continue our journey along a local village road accessing goreme from the back side completing our experience safely s de successful!!
Drove back to goreme!
Thabk you for following this expedition the next one is of the caves of Cappadocia!!
Thank you so much for your support and to follow my adventures around the world!!
Guillermo Alarcon aka Egnogra
Ascension Adventures / Lemurian Embassy Eco Village
PD: If you like to help and contribute to more of this adventures, please help buying one of my books published
Books i have published
http://www.amazon.com/Backpackers-Guide-Ancient-Mystical-Around/dp/147527730X/ref=la_B008HXMDXE_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410115148&sr=1-1
You can help me continue writing the second part of the Backpackers Guide to Ancient and Mystical Sites!!
If you are purchasing a book please contact me directly for which i can get a better rate than if you purchase on amazon or online..
Thank You
Goddesses Blesses YOU!
PD: If you like to help and contribute to more of this adventures, please help buying one of my books published
Books i have published
http://www.amazon.com/Backpackers-Guide-Ancient-Mystical-Around/dp/147527730X/ref=la_B008HXMDXE_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410115148&sr=1-1
You can help me continue writing the second part of the Backpackers Guide to Ancient and Mystical Sites!!
If you are purchasing a book please contact me directly for which i can get a better rate than if you purchase on amazon or online..
Thank You
Goddesses Blesses YOU!
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