photos : ballıca mağarası
 Ballıca Mağarası Mağarası means caves, in case you couldn’t tell. Ballıca is the name. |
 wide shot This place is really big. Not as huge as Carlsbad but very impressive. The way in is by driving up a huge mountain on a narrow road with no guardrail accompanied by big tour busses (hoping you don’t have to pass one going the other way). It’s in the area of Pazar, Tokat. |
 great stalagmites secret handshake a online or is it stalagtites? sheesh, and I was a geology major. someone write and remind me of the mnemonic that is supposed to help you never forget! |
 lunch is Tokat Kebabı cujo dvdrip Emrah and I and his mother ate lunch atop the hill after venturing into the cavern (but his mother didn’t come into the cavern, she waited outside). Tokat kebabı ıs hunks of meat (beef or lamb) cooked with large pieces of eggplant and other vegetables. The best part is the whole cloves of garlic cooked along with it. And that’s not milk we’re drinking, it’s ayran. Ayran is basically watered-down yogurt with some salt, a very refreshing drink with a slightly sour taste. |
 Zeynep and EmrahSence Emrah onun annesine benziyor mu? |
