Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN • Published 6th April 2021
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(CNN) It s a landscape that looks almost alien. Soft tufa rock spewed from volcanoes millennia ago to create a series of ethereal fairy chimneys that have been shaped and sculpted by nature. This is Cappadocia.
Rising above the Anatolian Plains of central Turkey, this historic region is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, drawing in thousands of tourists every year. Many take to the skies in hot air balloons as the sun rises, all the better to get a view of the rock formations whimsically referred to as fairy chimneys that come in all shapes and sizes cone ones, pointy ones, even some suggestive ones.
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