Second night in Cappadocia sees us loading up on the bus and heading for a local venue that hosts “Turkish Nights” this is a all you can eat and drink night with entertainment. The venue is in a cave. The night starts with with a presentation by Whirling dervishes – it was fasinating to see them after having been to their museum – during the main part of the presentation we weren’t allowed to take photos or eat and drink out of respect for the prayer. At the end though they bring up the lights and do some more whirling and we were permitting to take photos then.
After that it was a continuous stream of various folk dances and food & drink. We didn’t get to be entirely passive – they got us all up to do some folk dancing which included a Turkish style conga line and to outside where they got us all dancing around a bonfire before leading us back inside.
Where they got us to all sit on the floor in a great big circle and did a dance that told the story of various suitors trying to win a girl’s love. Once they had told they story they got the audience involved – picking a Lorin from our tour to be the girl to be won and then various men from the audience tried to when her affection – her final choice was James from our tour.
The belly dancer got several of the boys up to try their hand – which was amusing – it was Frosties birthday so we made sure that the she got him up hehehehe
At the end of the evening – we stumbled and staggered our way back to the bus – well the majority of people did – Bridget, Selim and I for various reasons had drunk very little. It was very funny to see Canar as drunk as everyone else – this was the first time he had drunk alcohol with us as he had given it up for Ramadan.
Back at the hotel we continued to party on at the night club there – we were the only ones there – which was probably a good thing as we were very rowdy and it really wasn’t that big.
Photos @ Kodak
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