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Cappadocia, Fertile Crescent and
Remote Cilician Plain
(12 Nights, 13 Days)
There is perhaps no site more
arresting for the traveler in the Near East than the
strange and enthralling landscape of Cappadocia in
central Turkey. The beauty of this region is not so much
natural as phantasmagoric, a surreal and incredible
vision of rock shapes and colors that often draws forth
the epithet "lunar" to describe it. We explore the wide
stretch of cones and smooth folds and find hundreds of
monasteries and churches concealed within them, sites
where Christian communities lived and prayed for the greater part of two
millennia.
Mesopotamia (The Fertile Crescent), the land between the
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, was the fertile river plain
where civilization was born and where writing first
appeared. We examine the earliest civilizations of the
world created in this region.
Tour Dates:
Saturday
10 - Thursday 22 May 2008
Saturday 24 - Thursday 05 June 2008
Saturday 04 - Thursday 16 October 2008 |
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