Derinkuyu Underground City - Central Turkey Cappadocia Region

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.

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 :)

          

                            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


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Bucharest Romania to Istanbul Turkey via land into the heart of Mesopotamia!!

Blessings Neuronauts!!

It's been many moons since my last post on this travel adventures, so I prepared you a very informative, detailed step by step travel tips in how to reach turkey from Europe and visit one of the most remarkable and mind blowing ancient sites on planet Earth!

Adjusting time clock towards the oldest ancient site on the planet, preparing Sumerian civilization, that is the one and only gobletlipeke! Bordering Syria, turkey and irak!

Trough out this journey I'll be visiting numerous important sites along the route so stay tune for the next editions of this travel diary!!

My journey begins in the post communist city of Bucharest, an incredible city, a melting pot of activism and up and coming consumerism paradigm, I stayed for a few days with a collective of artist, working to create a new chapter in the cultural revolution that Romania is currently undergoing! 

My goal is to reach the Syrian border 

But first need to reach the thriving city of Istanbul, there are various ways of reaching it:

1.-Via Train ( leaving daily around 12:00PM in the afternoon ) with a cost of €50.00 Euros on coach.

2.-Via Bus ( Leaving daily around 4:00PM in the afternoon ) with a cost of €37.00 Euros on coach.

I took the bus option, the quality of the bus is 8😍 stars :) it had a TV on every seat ( I did not use it ) USB charging station that for sure comes in handy, and a bus attendant type with a Eastern European type of attitude serving drinks like water and Pepsi.

The strange thing in the bus is that you are allowed to smoke in the back of the bus!! Out of my decade of travels the only place I seen this happen is in China and that's because it's impossible to control the people not to smoke, so that was weird and difficult specially because I just quit smoking!!

We crossed the border between Romania and Bulgaria, kind of Russia's backyard type of feeling, the country side was beautiful actually it reminded me of Portugal with adobe houses and colorful roofing tiles, mostly farms and country side houses, I didn't get to snap any photos because the bus was moving and was difficult to catch moving objects! 

After 4 hours we made a brief lunch and bathroom stop in Bulgaria forest 

The bathroom cost is $1.00 Lei, the food was overpriced €5.00 Euro so best bring your own array of drinks and snacks for the voyage..

I walked around the forest for a while and snapped this pic of it..

All right time to get back on the bus and continue the journey!!

Weird ultra ghetto gas station :)

   

I was on a dark musical mood so I listened to my favorite death metal band "Evol" a lot of EDM like "Hocico" "Suicide Commando" "Combichrist" then fell as sleep with some high vibrational harmonics from Jonathan goldman.

We made a a midnight stop in the middle of the night, the stars were shinning and got some nice fruits from local farmers..

Our bus is lead by this brand new black Mercedes, with a mafia looking guy don't ask me what this guys are up to all I know is they are leading our bus, perhaps from other gangster bus companies or whatever!

After we got back on the bus about to cross I to turkey border the bus people gave us all 2 bottles of exownsuve liquor to smuggle them to turkey I was like wtf!! This people really trying to make a buck on this ride!!

I just comply and went with the program, we crossed the turkey border and guess what? They asked me to stop in a free duty store across the border to buy them cigarettes and more alcohol and as reward they bought me a lentil soup hahaha!!

After another few hour ride we made it to Istanbul I was shocked to see this great city as a high tech urban exotic Islam and ottoman architecture, mind blowing!

We arrived around 5am and had to walk around looking for a hotel, unfortunately everything was full and exownsuve so I had to take a €50.00 Euro hotel for the night!

Well this is the part #1 adventure of the expedition to Turkish greatest oldest sites stay tune for the next transmission and thank you for following my adventures!