Why We Travel Turkey (NOT WHAT YOU THINK)
I feel like we could use some seat belts. today in our last video in cappadocia before continuing on our road trip around turkey we take a rather adventurous jeep safari to explore the history of this valley good grief this is insane! mind blow. but the rest of the day was just filled with constant examples of how kind and hospitable the turkish people are i just want to cry. I just like everybody is just so nice like i don't even know how to handle it we are so excited to continue our road trip around turkey visiting an additional 16 cities so don't forget to subscribe so that you won't miss a video but thanks for joining us today for what we think is the best way to experience cappadocia.
it is another 5 am wake up time today uh we're hoping the balloons will fly again today. weather can always change last minute but you get up just to see. You guys ready? Ok let's go! we did a super cold hike to get out here where there are no other people around us but absolutely worth it right in the midst of all the balloons is it worth getting up this early? No. Next time are you going to sleep in? yeah! really? I'll come out without you. That's why we need a nanny! haha i think it's time for breakfast and coffee. I haven't had any coffee yet today. Hey! But you're smiling!
Of course I'm smiling! With no coffee! All you need is either coffee or hot air balloons! wow! tell me how you really feel! I didn't mean for that to sound so mean. hey what are you doing in my car? It's not that dusty! is everybody cozy back there? getting warmed up? all right there we go! the weather is very strange here. it's like 32 in the morning and 70 in the afternoon yeah it'll be really hot we'll be in like t-shirts in the afternoon yep what are you making? nothing! so that was just like the most pleasant surprise ever we just walked into this pottery shop we were just driving down the street and saw it. And he invited us back into the
room where they make pottery and he showed us how they make some pottery and then he allowed the girls to have a turn and oh my goodness that was just so special we had so much fun! She's got a little clay left on her. Oh does she have some i didn't get it all wiped off that's all right and then they gave the girls little keychains that are so cute and special and i just i'm just amazed. How much did we pay for that? Nothing! We paid nothing! We just i don't know we just went right in and they just met with us with such hospitality and it's just so special so we will link the information for this place down below because if you are coming to cappadocia you need to come to this shop it's amazing! good job Chloe! Can you believe that you made it! oh man this looks so cool! wow i'm excited so we are headed off on a jeep safari around cappadocia this is awesome oh my goodness hang on tight oh my goodness Woah! Oh my goodness! this is like a roller coaster i don't feel like that should be possible! that was crazy! my goodness i feel like we could use some seat belts Hang on tight, Alexa! This is crazy! This is insane! The car is not even breaking a sweat. This is the craziest thing i've ever done in my life! so i had i had no idea this is how we were getting ourselves into Do you know what that means? Me either. i thought we were gonna go on like a nice peaceful ride this evening it's like a roller coaster! you should have known cause i was the one that booked it but i didn't even know it was gonna be like that! My arm is gonna be so sore from holding chloe so tight but oh my goodness how much fun! That was AWESOME! That's a good find Chloe. Do you know how all of those
structures were formed? By the wind and water. oh man I thought i was going to teach you something new. It's pretty big contrast to have that roller coaster of a ride and then land someplace so peaceful. I know it's kind of like a adrenaline and then whoo! Where did this guy get his license? So he just gave us a warning that things might get a little crazy here are you are you okay i know that you cannot see this in the camera but he's going oh my goodness he's going sideways! That should not be possible! That should not be possible. i think he's starting to enjoy himself here with all of the children's screams and mine i guess I'm like falling off, trying to... (screams)
Oh my goodness, hold on tight! and he takes he takes a phone call i'm hanging on for my life and he's making a phone call! it's like a workout! I think this guy likes his job too much! what a fun job! all right back into peaceful mode exploring history oh man whoa kids look at this! this whole region is covered in just the most amazing history you could spend years here never touch everything. This is an old church in an old hospital is that what he said? It's just crazy it's beautiful. daddy do you think that's a church? yeah that definitely looks like a church. Girls do you see the pigeons up there? so those small holes up top they made houses for the pigeons they wanted the pigeons to live in there, do you know why? So that they could collect the pigeon poop! ew! True story! Why? They would use it as fertilizer so that they could grow food! Oh my goodness. Good Grief! Look at this! This is insane! This was a church. Obviously. Kids they carved this out of the rock!
oh my goodness this is amazing! i don't know i feel like one of the most amazing things i've ever seen! it's just like you walk in here and it's so grand like from the outside it just looks like a cave You can even see a little person carved up there.what's amazing is that they didn't build these pillars they just slowly carved away and started to make this shape here Mind blown. wow this is crazy look you can see into the other church! that's awesome Girls this was the church. This is amazing. Can you imagine how long this would have taken to carve all of this out? This would not take just one day. This door is my size.
wow i mean this is insane oh my goodness it's every room is just more more impressive. And now it's a house for pigeons. oh! pigeon droppings! Did you just get pooped on? Nope, not yet! Let's get out of here before we get pooped on! That looks like a grave. It is. What's a grave? Its so hard, because we don't have time. so amazing i know i did not really i did not really expect to see something this special. Daddy show mommy the pictures! you want to show me your picture yeah why are we going sideways?? (screams) save me! i have the switch size this arm is like so sore from holding onto her! But good grief look at this view that we just arrived to! man wow it's a little a little eerie a little creepy in here but this entire massive structure is called the pigeon house because its sole purpose is to house pigeons. All of is this your first champagne? it's not an alcoholic don't worry, haha.
its so fizzy. too fizzy? Not so much. chloe was that so much fun? she's fancy now i think hey can i have the last sip? No. I can feel the dirt on my face and the sand in between your teeth. (speaking Turkish) To the bag shop! Going to the bag shop! do you have a problem with this shop? I may have a problem it's such a gorgeous store. it's just the quality of these bags and they're just so pretty and I can't help myself. Which they do sell online! oh they do? I'm gonna plug this store you can buy through instagram so instagram link right here you you just have to trust us on the quality oh my goodness it's just outstanding they're amazing. You want to make balloon? Do you want to make a balloon? are you excited? yeah. your balloon. oh that's the one that you started on, he saved it for you!
so the last time we were in here he was making the hot air balloons and chloe wanted to help so she pitched in and started learning how to sew up the hot air balloons. He kept it Yes he kept it right where it was. And now she's back to finish the job. She talked about this all day yesterday wanting to come back. She could not wait to get back. if you make the whole balloon you can keep it! What do you think? what do you think buddy you keep working hard okay? did you make that that's so cool it's amazing alexa come here you helped too you guys did such a good job i don't even know what to say about that because it's you know over and over again i feel like we're just constantly surprised with the amazingness of turkey and its people and i don't know the the just kindness and hospitality that is shown to us is something that is just hard to put into words and it's just completely out of the goodness of their hearts they want to offer you tea and give you the best experience that they can because they're just nice people! they're just kind people! they're just loving people! and it just is amazing to me. We have a lot to learn from them. We have a ton to learn from from turkish culture for sure. What do you say? Thank you! i just want to cry! I just...
everybody's just so nice like i don't even know how to handle it oh thank you so much For me too! all we did was sit down at a restaurant we haven't even had time to order yet we have been here a few times we have been here we've come here a few times because we really like it here but it's like the best food ever so it's because yeah i don't know we can call Grammy and Grandpa and Mimi and Papaw and would say please move to this country Turkey. Turkey. And then we will all stay here and live here. so she said she wants to call Mimi and Papaw which are my parents and Grammy and Grandpa which are Bradey's parents and tell them they should come move to turkey and then she wants to stay here. The only thing that turkey's missing is Mimi and Papaw and Grammy and Grandpa and some other family and friends all right so this is probably my favorite dish in this entire region this is Tavuk Sac which i'm a little confused by yeah the girls got pasta they like the pasta so it's um basically just chicken and tomatoes and rice and all kinds of really good spices. What confuses me
is it's called Tavuk Sac. Tavuk is chicken and "Sac" as far as i understand is "hair" so i really don't know why if anyone speaks proper turkish explain to me is there two meanings for "Sac" or is it called chicken hair like i which doesn't make any sense but anyways it's served on this metal tray with a candle underneath to keep it warm um this place does it the best um they add in what i think are italian spices which is definitely a very different spin but it's just so delicious. We are currently exploring the underground city of Derinkuyu which translates to deep well but this is the largest underground city in all of turkey. Chloe says it's the perfect size for her and all the little tunnels.
so at its peak nearly 20 000 people lived here and every little bit they have these round stone doors that they can seal off in case of any intruders. So the Christians would live here with all of their animals there's room for their livestock they have food storage, kitchens, rooms it's just i can't i can't imagine having nearly 20 000 people living underground in what essentially is an elaborate ant hill for humans. We're going into a tunnel right now that has no light this was used as a confessional. My head can bearly fit.
you guys were super brave! Good job buddy that was super brave. chloe give me a high five so brave super brave Sing it Chloe! Brave but not afraid! Brave but not afraid! Here I'll get my flashlight out because its really dark. Chloe, you're super brave! when they would have a death when they were underground hiding then they would store the bodies here for the few days and when they would go back up to the caves they would bury them properly What did you find? A cross! Woah! Good find! wow! good job! there's a ton of different entrances to the underground city this one is one of the hidden entrances but just to put it in perspective they must have been so small much smaller than you because i mean this is crazy Daddy get out of there before you get stuck! No! No daddy you're going to get stuck! It looks so cool! Should we just go the shortcut? So this is a well.
and then they would pour water into here and this would become a baptism pool. So to make wine they would throw grapes down the hole into here so they would squish all the grapes and then the grape juice would go down through that hole into a bucket can you imagine then you were drinking grape juice that was on the floor uh so yesterday alexa asked me an interesting question she said daddy why do we put our videos on youtube um she's getting to that age where she asks really good questions and um she knows both of them know the main reason we make our videos is so that we can remember the experiences that we're having uh mostly because my memory is so terrible um but also for them to look back on when they're older that's why we make these videos but that's not why we put them on youtube she wanted to know why do we put our videos on youtube and my response to her was it's a difficult thing to explain but what i told her was alexa did you know that a lot of people are afraid of the world and would be afraid to come to Turkey and her response was "what??" it was so dramatic complete shock it just was like her mind just exploded it was it was rather funny actually but it was completely sincere like she was just so shocked by that um and that's because she's experienced firsthand the the Turkish hospitality and the kindness of the people here on a level that is is hard to receive sometimes it's just unmatched kindness and you don't know it's like when you're put in that position to receive that level of kindness you almost don't even know what to do um especially as an american as an american because that's not really part of our culture Its so far from our culture i mean yeah we have our own versions of being nice but like it's not i would say the same. oh Chloe's screaming. kids are fun especially in the morning before coffee so anyway trying to focus because i know we have no get the coffee down so i can focus it's going to be it's going to be terrible i'm sorry it's real life. I think going back to what i told alexa a lot of people are very afraid of the world and they they don't need to be um yes there are dangers in the world there's dangers but there's dangers everywhere wherever you live you know there's there's its own dangers i think that I really want to in some small way show people that the world is full of good people I often think about the impact that Anthony Bourdain had on me and he really opened my eyes to the world and he really i feel like he had a profound impact on my entire our entire generation of giving us a wanderlust and a love for people who are different than us and just seeing the world differently and I could never aspire to have that level of impact however like if I could if we could have just a small level of impact in a similar way then I would be very happy. absolutely. And if that means we spend away all of our savings and go broke but have some level of impact I still would be happy. Its worth it. it's i'm still working to find the words and i'm really not good with words i do pictures not words but that's how i explain it to alexa is we want people to know that the world is full of good people and beautiful places and it's a good thing to want to explore it's worth exploring so i guess to that end like because of that desire to hopefully have some small level of impact like we do want the channel to grow and we never started the channel with that intent no but now, now we want that because we have this desire to have some level of impact we don't know if that's even possible the way that we're currently shooting like right now we're capturing family memories but hopefully that's showing the world something but maybe later on in in in life the the videos will change to tell more real local stories we don't know we talk about this often but people have a hard time understanding what it is that we're doing and how we can afford to do these things and you know we did sell everything we own and we are living off of that right now we are hoping that that will last us a long time um but we don't make a lot of money off of youtube right now i think that's like misconception. Yeah people don't understand that. Its a common misconception.
you know anyone that's doing this is like making a ton of money and can afford to go anywhere and do anything that's not true at all the hourly rate is somewhere hovering around 15 cents an hour of work yeah. haha. And it is work. It is a lot of work. and we've been talking a lot about like how to balance all of that because we're here right now and it's like i don't want to sit inside of a cave and edit i want to be outside and i want to be soaking up everything this place has to offer but at the same time like i have to you know continue working because that's what we have you know we've made a commitment to do that and that's part of you know that's why we're doing this is so that we can share what we're experiencing with anyone who's interested in watching yeah so if you if you do enjoy the videos like when you when you see them if you could give them a "like" leave us a comment like that there is this strange thing called the youtube algorithm also subscribing if you're not already i know some people think like you have to like pay to be a part of youtube to be a subscriber that's not true at all it's free to create an account and then if you click that subscribe button it's really the best way um and also that bell that way you're notified when we post new videos um it's really the best way to use the platform but it also helps us grow as we kind of find out what we're what we're doing and how we move forward anyways thank you for watching there's a drone flying over us yeah um tomorrow we are heading to gaziantep and we have a very exciting stuff along the way oh yeah ice cream. ice cream. we've actually talked about um like how cool it would be if we could
bring some people back next time like maybe next year um try to grab a dozen people and bring them back and and do some sort of group tour like thing and that's probably just like a lofty idea that would be so fun though it would be so neat to have a group of people to show them around um because i think i think that i mean it's it can be i remember it being an intimidating destination when we first decided to come here last time um how do we get here how do we get around um but man it's just one of the coolest places in the whole world um so so i don't know that's that may be something that we work towards if that's something you might be interested in i guess reach out to us let us know but we'll keep that in the back of our minds.
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