Another great video of an in-depth detail tag along tour makes it feel like we're right there with you! Only this time we get an hour!!! Yeah!!! ..& to think, you get paid for this nowadays doing what you Love & yet you we're doing this long before any kind of pay! True success. That's the way..Keeping it Real:) Thank you!!
I'm definitely going there. Had no idea. I love exploring places with historical significance and imagining living at that time. Just like you man. It's so cool.
Wow G, what an amazing video! Thanks so much for sharing! I've been to Cappadocia twice before and plan on visiting again next year. There sure is more to see than just the sites you pay to get into. Those caves are just incredible. Even though I have seen them with my own eyes they are still so hard to believe. Incredible!!
5:11 Lots of tourists. Most visitors don't bother going up to hills to explore inside of the caves. Since most of them past the middle age, and they don't have have the energy endurance you have. Thanks again for this wonderful video, very much appreciated by all of us. 🥰👏👍
Wow I would love to be able to dwell within these caves for weeks if it was possible! Away from civilization, exploring slowly every nook and cranny, sitting and watching both sunrise and sunset. Unbelievable and awesome!
Wowww thank u for sharing history, sir Gabe of lifes of people in ancient Caves Cities Incredible very Interesting Story , on CAPPadoccia Turkey, Thank u for your Story telling Walk around tour sir Gabe Godbless u 🙏🙂 from your solid fan supporter Viewer from The Philippines 🇵🇭 sir Marvin 👏👏👏👏👍🎾🙏🙏👏👏👏
10.20.......you was on the right path. We walked up to that "garage/shed/home Very interesting , had a door at one end......anyway keep walking and you'll walk past the cave 🤞🏻🤞🏻 not easy to spot though
Thank you so much for this beautiful video. I agree with you it must’ve been fascinating living back in those times. I also Would love to go back in time and live with these people. What they could teach us.
I was curious about the popularity or need for raising pigeons. Apparently, in Medieval Europe, raising pigeons in a Dovecote was a status symbol and was even regulated. Pigeon Guana was a hot comodity and baby pigeons were a delicacy. I'm not sure how the preceding information applies to Cappadocia, but I thought I would share it.
Like 458 👍 Greetings from Naples, Florida. Wow, wish we could visit this area. We enjoyed this, Gabriel. Thank you so much for sharing this part of the world with us.
Hello Gabriel, I’m always astonished by all the ancient discoveries you managed to find-Absolutely fascinating.I think lives back centuries ago were very simple and less stress, less hectic and definitely less competitive and materialistic.People tend to bond more and appreciate the simplest things.In modern society we tend to take things for grant and more are materialistic.Thank you for sharing all your amazing travel adventures and for all the awesome videos, brilliant as always,Take care 👍👍👍👍👍🙏🏽
The huge iron crosses embedded in the main doors to Hagia Sofia in Constantinople were the most amazing thing I remember (among many) during my time there in 2008. Ephesus was great as well.
Above ground you can clearly see the remnants of broken up structures once a lot bigger. Very strange landscape, makes you wonder what's beneath the sediments. It's clearly visible if you look at the surrounding.
Amazing exploration of these ancient caves . I lived in Ankara as a teenager, in the 60’s but never realized these were in Turkey. Antiquity was all around ..Got to see Ephesus with no tourist..Istanbul..Hot springs in Izmir..My father was in the USAF, but there were no military bases, so we lived and mingled with the Turkish people. They were at that time trying to modernize..no fezzes or face coverings for women..and their alphabet was the same as ours so it was easier to educate the people and become literate. Yeah, they loved Attaturk. The Turks knew their country was old but were hesitant to excavate so no one would take their treasures.
suzi perret your comment is not quite accurate! The Turks are not indigenous in Asia Minor / Anatolia. Other people (Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians etc) were living there for millennia. But from the 11th century onwards the Seljuk Turks - a nomadic people coming over from Mongolia - started militarily invading and usurping the lands of the indigenous people, turning them by violence into what is now modern Turkey. Thus, your phrase "the Turks were hesitant to excavate so no one would take their treasures" is also inaccurate, since what the Turks are internationally promoting today as "their" treasures are mainly Greek and Greek - Byzantine monuments and artifacts!
Watching this makes me want to watch another documentary on the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean! I wish more was known about that, but I guess the speculation adds to the mystery of it! Amazing history in this region though!
check out this place it looked great: Alaşehir (Turkish pronunciation: [aˈɫaʃehiɾ]), in Antiquity and the Middle Ages known as Philadelphia (Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια, i.e., "the city of him who loves his brother"), is a town and district of Manisa Province in the Aegean region of Turkey.
Just full of wonder and mystery thanks Gabriel. I visited in 1980. before hot air balloons took off I think. i remember discovering some frescoes and churches but I didn't realise the scale of the place. Looks like I need to go back...!!
Hi Gabriel, we don't realize how important the monks and priests where they were the scholars of their time they know how to read and write and taught others how to read and write they were the teachers, and professors they knew how to bake bread make beer raise livestock as well as other required things. The pigeons, if you remember, were not only used for farming but were used for communications sending messages back and forth train in sending messages critically important and can travel incredible distances.
Thank you so much for this beautiful video ,it is just like reading one of the books of Will Durant( the story of civilization) full of history. Great episode .
Gabriel yours has been a quite accurate historical description of Cappadocia! It is almost shocking the fact that people were living there underground, due to the endless wars they were experiencing. The critical factor that made Cappadocia such a war prone zone was that it had always been a border region between two rival superpowers! It was a border region during the Hittite's era (Hittites vs Egyptians, post-Hittite people vs Assyrians etc.), it was a border region during the Greek - Byzantine era (Byzantines vs Persians or Byzantines vs Arabs). By the way, the christian churches of Cappadocia are not just created by some Greek monks, which were some minority in the area. The entire population of Cappadocia was composed of mainly Greek Byzantines. For example, the modern Turkish city of "Goreme" stands at the very same place were the Greek Byzantine city of "Korema" was lying. The Turks (who are not indigenous in that land,. Their homeland is the Altay Plateau in Mongolia) just paraphrased the Greek name of the city, when they grabbed it with the use of military force. P.S. There are almost 500 Greek-Byzantine (tiny, medium or big) christian churches in Cappadocia. In most of them the ikons (even the ones on the ceiling of the church) have been deliberately defaced. So, that's not the causal act of some random Turk but rather a systematic practice.
Yes, when I went to the Open Air Museum (that video was actually filmed the day after this one, I reversed the order) I noticed that most of the paintings were deliberately defaced.
29:22. I'm wondering if it's a cliff dwelling that collapsed and not an actual carved statue. Half of the squared window is observed and the entrance to the side. I suspect it collapsed and this is all that's left.
The curiosity and interest to investigate human life as it was before the modern era is something I share. It’s worth noting though that the tendency to romanticize what is not here and now, hence what it was, is in a way wired into how the human psyche works. That said, looking deeper into human history as a species, it seems to be clearer and clearer that humanity currently isn’t at the highest point of evolution ever touched: there is so much about “the past” that suggests quite the opposite. This comment could go on and on but to share an opinion on “speed” and modern-era ways of life, this I guess is what we have and need to work with: we have a brain capable enough (if trained properly) to help us be smart with the reality immediately available to pursue what most matter to us.
How the hell did they manage to cut out solid rock ,with such sharp edgings ,using primitive tools ? One of the entrances to a cave was so precise and perfectly aligned ,it would be easy to say it was done by machine . I love the unknown about ancient sites and stonework ! Fascinating .
@@GabrielTravelerVideos the entire Cappadocia was made out of of a humongous volcanic eruption of millions of years ago, so those "rocks" are quite soft and malleable.
Seeing your love of caves again makes it all the more of a shame that you did not explore the cave towns of Tunisia when you were there, including Matmata where they filmed the first Star Wars movie. And did you get to the cave complex in Georgia at Vardzia?
Hi Gabe, do you think you could mountain bike that area or is it foot patrol only? Would be some cool looking trails and you could explore even further, Thanks.
You could definitely mountain bike certain areas, especially on the dirt roads. Going off trail could be tough, very uneven ground plus steep hills, cliffs, etc.
Maybe these were residences that were eventually turned into pigeon roosts? Because they are so well thought out.. definitely feels like a human's home with the way it's laid out a pigeon roost wouldn't be so well designed I would think maybe more of a simple room. It's like maybe they came in and put in the pigeon holes after they were created for humans? Then humans moved out and they got repurposed?
Seems like these people that lived here trained homing pigeons for the kingdom. The strange little rooms with bottomless floors, seem to be for the house holds hogpen, to fatten the hog up they used to put it in a pen in which it couldn't move and just fatten it up, using its fat and meat later when harvested. The hole in the floor would have been wooden. so the filth would just fall into a mulch pit they could fertilize their gardens with.
Most of them were already cavernous to some extent and the Greek-Byzantines expanded and enriched their cavernous architecture, turning them into great christian churches!
Seems like with so many people it might not have been a super long existence with lack of water and lack of vegetation. It amazes me to think they could've found enough wood to burn. Perhaps it was a Christian military location? Awesome site but we can only speculate without certainty
Gabriel, don’t be so adventurous in this area as you’re travelling alone and the place is treacherous. No one would notice and come help if you fell. Anyway, enjoy your videos as always.
Another great video of an in-depth detail tag along tour makes it feel like we're right there with you! Only this time we get an hour!!! Yeah!!! ..& to think, you get paid for this nowadays doing what you Love & yet you we're doing this long before any kind of pay! True success. That's the way..Keeping it Real:) Thank you!!
I'm definitely going there. Had no idea. I love exploring places with historical significance and imagining living at that time. Just like you man. It's so cool.
Wow G, what an amazing video! Thanks so much for sharing! I've been to Cappadocia twice before and plan on visiting again next year. There sure is more to see than just the sites you pay to get into. Those caves are just incredible. Even though I have seen them with my own eyes they are still so hard to believe. Incredible!!
5:11 Lots of tourists. Most visitors don't bother going up to hills to explore inside of the caves. Since most of them past the middle age, and they don't have have the energy endurance you have. Thanks again for this wonderful video, very much appreciated by all of us. 🥰👏👍
One of the best youtubers there is.
Wow I would love to be able to dwell within these caves for weeks if it was possible! Away from civilization, exploring slowly every nook and cranny, sitting and watching both sunrise and sunset. Unbelievable and awesome!
your vids are still so legit, thanks.
Wowww thank u for sharing history, sir Gabe of lifes of people in ancient Caves Cities Incredible very Interesting Story , on CAPPadoccia Turkey,
Thank u for your Story telling Walk around tour sir Gabe Godbless u 🙏🙂 from your solid fan supporter Viewer from The Philippines 🇵🇭 sir Marvin 👏👏👏👏👍🎾🙏🙏👏👏👏
10.20.......you was on the right path. We walked up to that "garage/shed/home Very interesting , had a door at one end......anyway keep walking and you'll walk past the cave 🤞🏻🤞🏻 not easy to spot though
I must have just missed you! I was there last week! Love the content!!
Thank you so much for this beautiful video. I agree with you it must’ve been fascinating living back in those times. I also Would love to go back in time and live with these people. What they could teach us.
I was curious about the popularity or need for raising pigeons. Apparently, in Medieval Europe, raising pigeons in a Dovecote was a status symbol and was even regulated. Pigeon Guana was a hot comodity and baby pigeons were a delicacy. I'm not sure how the preceding information applies to Cappadocia, but I thought I would share it.
A lot to see in the hour. Enjoyed. Thank you
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Greetings from Naples, Florida. Wow, wish we could visit this area. We enjoyed this, Gabriel. Thank you so much for sharing this part of the world with us.
Hello Gabriel, I’m always astonished by all the ancient discoveries you managed to find-Absolutely fascinating.I think lives back centuries ago were very simple and less stress, less hectic and definitely less competitive and materialistic.People tend to bond more and appreciate the simplest things.In modern society we tend to take things for grant and more are materialistic.Thank you for sharing all your amazing travel adventures and for all the awesome videos, brilliant as always,Take care 👍👍👍👍👍🙏🏽
The huge iron crosses embedded in the main doors to Hagia Sofia in Constantinople were the most amazing thing I remember (among many) during my time there in 2008. Ephesus was great as well.
Gabe happy to see another video
Excellent, enjoy the random wandering.
Really nice footage of the cite, thanks for sharing it!
Above ground you can clearly see the remnants of broken up structures once a lot bigger. Very strange landscape, makes you wonder what's beneath the sediments. It's clearly visible if you look at the surrounding.
Amazing exploration of these ancient caves . I lived in Ankara as a teenager, in the 60’s but never realized these were in Turkey. Antiquity was all around ..Got to see Ephesus with no tourist..Istanbul..Hot springs in Izmir..My father was in the USAF, but there were no military bases, so we lived and mingled with the Turkish people. They were at that time trying to modernize..no fezzes or face coverings for women..and their alphabet was the same as ours so it was easier to educate the people and become literate. Yeah, they loved Attaturk. The Turks knew their country was old but were hesitant to excavate so no one would take their treasures.
suzi perret your comment is not quite accurate! The Turks are not indigenous in Asia Minor / Anatolia. Other people (Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians etc) were living there for millennia. But from the 11th century onwards the Seljuk Turks - a nomadic people coming over from Mongolia - started militarily invading and usurping the lands of the indigenous people, turning them by violence into what is now modern Turkey. Thus, your phrase "the Turks were hesitant to excavate so no one would take their treasures" is also inaccurate, since what the Turks are internationally promoting today as "their" treasures are mainly Greek and Greek - Byzantine monuments and artifacts!
Watching this makes me want to watch another documentary on the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean! I wish more was known about that, but I guess the speculation adds to the mystery of it! Amazing history in this region though!
check out this place it looked great: Alaşehir (Turkish pronunciation: [aˈɫaʃehiɾ]), in Antiquity and the Middle Ages known as Philadelphia (Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια, i.e., "the city of him who loves his brother"), is a town and district of Manisa Province in the Aegean region of Turkey.
Hour long video is best format
Sweet, glad to hear it.
I'd say it depends on the location lol
😱😱😱👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏❤️What a view up there 🙌🙌🙌 Best to see your video!!! I was there more than 10 ago 😂
Just a fabulous place full of history. Must go there.
Great video, but more your philosophy about life is very interesting and I couldn't agree more with you.
Incredible formations Never came across anything like this. You are a remarkable traveler❗️
AMAZING!!! Love your content!!!
Cool, thanks.
Thanks Gabe
Nice video as always Gabriel 😊😎❤
great video, thank you!
Wow very nice🤗 god bless you sir🙏
Very interesting, I hiked a lot around Gerome it was fantastic
Really cool and interesting place 😎😀Good job 👍😁
Great content!
Cool, thanks.
Just full of wonder and mystery thanks Gabriel. I visited in 1980. before hot air balloons took off I think. i remember discovering some frescoes and churches but I didn't realise the scale of the place. Looks like I need to go back...!!
Hi Gabriel, we don't realize how important the monks and priests where they were the scholars of their time they know how to read and write and taught others how to read and write they were the teachers, and professors they knew how to bake bread make beer raise livestock as well as other required things. The pigeons, if you remember, were not only used for farming but were used for communications sending messages back and forth train in sending messages critically important and can travel incredible distances.
Awesome vlog of ancient civilisation.
Thank you so much for this beautiful video ,it is just like reading one of the books of Will Durant( the story of civilization) full of history. Great episode .
thanks for the talk
Gabriel yours has been a quite accurate historical description of Cappadocia! It is almost shocking the fact that people were living there underground, due to the endless wars they were experiencing. The critical factor that made Cappadocia such a war prone zone was that it had always been a border region between two rival superpowers! It was a border region during the Hittite's era (Hittites vs Egyptians, post-Hittite people vs Assyrians etc.), it was a border region during the Greek - Byzantine era (Byzantines vs Persians or Byzantines vs Arabs).
By the way, the christian churches of Cappadocia are not just created by some Greek monks, which were some minority in the area. The entire population of Cappadocia was composed of mainly Greek Byzantines. For example, the modern Turkish city of "Goreme" stands at the very same place were the Greek Byzantine city of "Korema" was lying. The Turks (who are not indigenous in that land,. Their homeland is the Altay Plateau in Mongolia) just paraphrased the Greek name of the city, when they grabbed it with the use of military force.
P.S. There are almost 500 Greek-Byzantine (tiny, medium or big) christian churches in Cappadocia. In most of them the ikons (even the ones on the ceiling of the church) have been deliberately defaced. So, that's not the causal act of some random Turk but rather a systematic practice.
Yes, when I went to the Open Air Museum (that video was actually filmed the day after this one, I reversed the order) I noticed that most of the paintings were deliberately defaced.
29:22. I'm wondering if it's a cliff dwelling that collapsed and not an actual carved statue. Half of the squared window is observed and the entrance to the side. I suspect it collapsed and this is all that's left.
The curiosity and interest to investigate human life as it was before the modern era is something I share. It’s worth noting though that the tendency to romanticize what is not here and now, hence what it was, is in a way wired into how the human psyche works. That said, looking deeper into human history as a species, it seems to be clearer and clearer that humanity currently isn’t at the highest point of evolution ever touched: there is so much about “the past” that suggests quite the opposite.
This comment could go on and on but to share an opinion on “speed” and modern-era ways of life, this I guess is what we have and need to work with: we have a brain capable enough (if trained properly) to help us be smart with the reality immediately available to pursue what most matter to us.
Well said. The only time worth spending much time on is now.
You are truly a traveler 👍👍
Excellent video! Cool leopard print shirt.
How the hell did they manage to cut out solid rock ,with such sharp edgings ,using primitive tools ? One of the entrances to a cave was so precise and perfectly aligned ,it would be easy to say it was done by machine . I love the unknown about ancient sites and stonework ! Fascinating .
Yeah it's pretty mind-blowing. I think that kind of rock is pretty soft and easy to cut into, nothing like granite or other hard stone.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos the entire Cappadocia was made out of of a humongous volcanic eruption of millions of years ago, so those "rocks" are quite soft and malleable.
Rellay good work🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
Where did they get water? _ Very nice editing too. . . :>
Actually when i went to cappadocia last year , i also though that creating a small house in those caves was interesting 😊
Seeing your love of caves again makes it all the more of a shame that you did not explore the cave towns of Tunisia when you were there, including Matmata where they filmed the first Star Wars movie. And did you get to the cave complex in Georgia at Vardzia?
Yes, I went to Vardzia: th-cam.com/video/5MTLPeiRnxk/w-d-xo.html
Love the channel sir. You should auction off that leopard print shirt, you’d get a fair sum I reckon 😄
From india love your videos incredible....
Hi Gabe, do you think you could mountain bike that area or is it foot patrol only? Would be some cool looking trails and you could explore even further, Thanks.
You could definitely mountain bike certain areas, especially on the dirt roads. Going off trail could be tough, very uneven ground plus steep hills, cliffs, etc.
Appreciate your efforts.
Cool video..................🇮🇳
Maybe these were residences that were eventually turned into pigeon roosts? Because they are so well thought out.. definitely feels like a human's home with the way it's laid out a pigeon roost wouldn't be so well designed I would think maybe more of a simple room. It's like maybe they came in and put in the pigeon holes after they were created for humans? Then humans moved out and they got repurposed?
That seems like a possibility.
Lovely place
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Those are melted buildings right off the start. So you’re saying they carved those caves with bronze chisels? It’s a melted brick building.
The tailings involved with carving that out would be a mountain higher than that mountain. I’ve done reductive statue carving.
Time to go to other places in Turkey Gabe. Mt. Ararat maybe.
Awesome
Gaberial,, have you watched ancient apocalypse w/ Graham Hancock. I believe he goes here in esp. 7!
15m 56sec........you was at the cave/church how frustrating to see you walk away from it 😂 🙈 great video though just wondering around chatting 🤙
I know, so funny that I was right there without realizing it.
Never thought I'd here the words "custumer service at walmart" in an ancient city in Turkey
Wow long video geb❤️❤️❤️❤️
So interesting I see the romanticism there. I was wondering where did they get water from - it does not rain much there
Love to the this place. Seems you have quite a deep interest in cave dwellings
That note at min. 25 must be written in Ottoman Turkish.
Heat damaged buildings ~ not carved!
Seems like these people that lived here trained homing pigeons for the kingdom. The strange little rooms with bottomless floors, seem to be for the house holds hogpen, to fatten the hog up they used to put it in a pen in which it couldn't move and just fatten it up, using its fat and meat later when harvested. The hole in the floor would have been wooden. so the filth would just fall into a mulch pit they could fertilize their gardens with.
Pigeons were, and are still, food. Pigeon manure for the garden.
hallo sir i watched all your videos , do you work privare thanks
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Did the Greeks carve out their churches from solid mass with chisels, or were they already cavernous??
Most of them were already cavernous to some extent and the Greek-Byzantines expanded and enriched their cavernous architecture, turning them into great christian churches!
free, just move right in, free pigeon dinners!
Exactly.
Seems like with so many people it might not have been a super long existence with lack of water and lack of vegetation. It amazes me to think they could've found enough wood to burn. Perhaps it was a Christian military location? Awesome site but we can only speculate without certainty
Interesting place, though your dizzying camera work does the viewer no favors.
but are you a merchant
India 🇮🇳 is the best for tourism in South Asia.When are you coming to India brother?
I was there a few months ago: th-cam.com/video/m1Ekql8r9eo/w-d-xo.html
Gabriel, don’t be so adventurous in this area as you’re travelling alone and the place is treacherous. No one would notice and come help if you fell. Anyway, enjoy your videos as always.
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Boom, got it.
If you look good, you see lots of it buried in the sand.
un. efn. believable.