The Story about the Traveling Band Caspian Caravan and the Journey Over Land to India, Part 2 Cappadocia and Malatya

So I finally found a bit of time to write the second part of this story!

You can read the first part "The beginning" here

We came to Cappadocia!

Cappadocia is one of the most interesting places I've seen on Earth! It actually doesn't look much like Earth but more like a village on the moon or something.

It is an area of soft stone, in ant-hive like shapes, created by erosion of the more brittle soil over centuries. People have then carved houses, churches and tunnels in the rocks, which are now known as "fairy chimneys".
Some of the very first Christians are supposed to have build these churches and all the underground tunnels, hiding from their Muslim brothers.

It is a huge area. Some of the most preserved churches are made into a museum, but the whole area is full of churches and caves that you can explore as you like! We squatted a very nice little cave house here for about a week and I felt like a real explorer crawling through the many tunnels that goes up and down and reveals new rooms all the time!

So while in Cappadocia we were more explorers than musicians, but we did also play some music in the town and got invited to a very nice cave hotel to play (which I unfortunately didn't get pictures of, being out of battery!)

Then we hit the road again, hitchhiking East through some of the more conservative parts of Turkey.

Usually we got a warm welcome though. First we got invited to play in a school and tell the children about our lives.

We wanted to go to the top of the mountains..

.. but it got quite cold, so we didn't reach the top, but got invited to sleep in a boy's school in the mountains!

And to another house for amazing Çiğ köfte!

Then we reached Malatya and here we got a mixed welcome, but one that later came to mean a lot for us!

Malatya is one of the more conservative cities of Turkey, and we were really stared down wherever we went! We tried to sit in a park to relax, when crowds and crowds of people surrounded us, so in the end the police had to tell us to move on -again! We could not stand still anywhere.
And then we got in The News! We were playing music, with the crazy crowds and the police told us to move on. A TV team showed up and filmed the whole thing and amazingly they portrayed the police as the bad guys treating our foreign guests badly!
After then we were almost famous in Turkey! All the people that picked us up after that where like "Hey, I saw you in the TV! Well done guys!" And even the police told us "don't worry, you won't be bothered in our town!"
We even met people in Azerbaijan long time later who'd seen us on YouTube or Turkish TV.

Here you can see the clip:

You can never judge a situation to be good or bad. It just is!
I believe it's all connected and intertwined in the end. You can never really know how much fortune a presumably 'bad' event might cause you or the misfortunes of a 'good' one.
Everything just is, but I enjoy riding the rollercoaster anyway!

Thank you for reading and stay tuned for the next episode of the adventures of the travelling band Caspian Caravan and the journey Over Land to India! Upvote and resteems are very appreciated!