Welcome2goreme.com shares the love for the central Anatolian region of Cappadocia in the heart of Turkey. Welcome to Goreme is the first independent portal with travel information for travelers by travellers. Lots of detailed travel information and dynamic images on Cappadocia with its fairy chimney landscapes. We inform you about outdoor activities like trekking on hiking trails through Goreme National Park and snowshoeing in the valleys or hot air ballooning. travel photography of Cappadocia and information of destinations and villages like cavusin, Uchisar, Goreme, Ortahisar, Ibrahimpasa, Urgup, and many others.Check out our recommendations for accomodation in Cappadocia and especially the cave hotels and pensions.

<a href="http://Welcome2goreme.com">Welcome2goreme.com</a> shares the love for the

<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/the-valleys-in-cappadocia-turkey">central Anatolian region of Cappadocia</a> in the heart of Turkey.
<a href="http://Welcome2goreme.com">Welcome to Goreme</a> is the first independent portal with travel information for travelers by travellers. Lots of detailed travel information and dynamic images on
<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/the-valleys-in-cappadocia-turkey">Cappadocia with its fairy chimney landscapes.</a> We inform you about
<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/the-valleys-in-cappadocia-turkey/ihlara-valley-the-deepest-in-anatolia-turkey">outdoor activities<a> like
<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/activities-ballooning-biking-hiking-touring-snowshoeing-in-cappadocia-turkey/hiking">trekking on hiking trails through Goreme National Park</a> and
<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/winter">snowshoeing in the valleys</a> or

<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/activities-ballooning-biking-hiking-touring-snowshoeing-in-cappadocia-turkey/ballooning">hot air ballooning.</a>
<a href="http://www.photoshelter.com/c/adventure4ever/search?I_DSC=cappadocia&I_USER_ID=U0000c9dYXn9dWPI&I_DSC_AND=t&_ACT=search" target="new" >travel photography of Cappadocia<a> and
<a href="http://Welcome2goreme.com">information of destinations</a> and
<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/historical-villages-of-cappadocia">villages</a> like
<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/historical-villages-of-cappadocia/cavusin-village-in-cappadocia-turkey">cavusin</a>,
<a hraf="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/historical-villages-of-cappadocia/the-village-of-uchisar-cappadocia-turkey">Uchisar</a>,
<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/historical-villages-of-cappadocia/the-village-of-goreme-in-cappadocia-turkey">Goreme</a>,

<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/places-of-interest/historical-villages-of-cappadocia/the-village-of-ortahisar-cappadocia-turkey">Ortahisar</a>, Ibrahimpasa, Urgup, and many others.Check out our recommendations for
<a href="http://welcome2goreme.com/c/living-in-a-rock">accomodation in Cappadocia and especially the cave hotels and pensions</a>.

Looking for more ways to make revenue with our photography we came up with the plan to start producing adventure travel photo books. There is no money to be made anymore  in photo books you would say?

Maybe not in the traditional printing industry. But take the Digital Printing, where each book can be personalized and customized to the receiver and you have a whole new ball game. Adventure4ever.com now produces photo books, for tour operators and tourism boards. By adding their company logo and message they receive a perfect regional portfolio in the shape of a hard back photo cover photo book.

Taking this product a step further, we have put this photobook with corporate message of the region online where the gueast of that Tourism Region can add their own pictures to new pages in the book. This way they get the ultimate photobook, with their own images included. The book will be on the coffee table for a long time making the happy travellers unofficial ambassadors for the Tourism region.

Read more about our Customizable Personalized Photo Books

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It does not happen very often that you see Loggerhead ( Caretta Caretta) Sea Turtles in Turkey anymore. After a Gulet Cruise with friends, Jillian Nico and I were hanging out At the Kas Camping when Nico spotted this old Turtle while snorkeling. Exited he called us over and Jillian picked up her Canon G10 with the underwater housing. Given the fact that I did not expect to get any good photo’s without proper experiece on the camera, I decided to try a movie. Here is the result: a gracefull Turtle gently gliding through the water. What a super wildlife experience!

The instructions from Gearge the Dolphin trainer of the Dolphin Academy are clear: let her Annie, the dolphin come to you, and don’t start reaching out right away. If you stick to that, she will hang around.

And hanging around she did. For a full 30 minutes she races over the reef like a dog of his leash, to come back to us and play for a while. Soon Annie becomes cuddely with most of the divers, interacting with most of us.

I can immagine how much swimming with a dolphin must mean for autistic children, because by the time I surface I almost feel sane again .  Although Anne Marie of Habitat seems to think I should go for 2 more sessions , to even come close to sanity.

Even though Annie was captured in the wild in Central America, she was trained in a record 6 weeks and goes out to open sea regularly, without wanting to disappear. Dolphins are very intelligent underwater mammals, so I guess if she wanted to get away, she would have done it a long time ago. In the meantime she has convinced me that she is having a good time playing around with landbased mammals of a dive. After diving with an Elephant this is the next best thing I have experiences and I am glad that I decided to withstand the ear trauma.

Annie comes to Jillian for a cuddle

This time we are in the Caribbean Sea, and the water is getting to a nice 27 degrees Celcius. From the Habitat Curacao Resort we start with a boat dive on Mushroom Forest.  A beautiful dive site full of mushroom shaped coral formations.

This is the maiden voyage of my new 8″ dome port for my Nikon D200 Ikelite Housing. With the Sigma full feame 12-24 mm mounted, the postbody was not wide enough, so I had my friend Nico Bodewes, widen the port with two mm to accomodate the lens and was able to customize a zoom ring that fit the narrow space.

The Dive is going well, and my ears… always the weak link, seem to adjust well to the local pressure. After a good 40 minutes we surface with many good shots for the story.

The second dive was a bit more eventful than I planned for. Halfway through the dive, a loud zipping noise splits my right ear and the world starts spinning for a while. I signal to the divemaster that I need to go up…. Jillian, my buddy has a new camera, and 2 buddying photographers with tunnelvission, we now find out, does not work as we have temporarily lost contact. Salt water is eating away at my inner Ear and I know I am buggered with a perforated eardrum for the rest of the trip… and months to come. @#$@$#@$

Life goes on and I will have to concentrate more on the landbased photography.

The City of l'Aquila in the Abruzzo of Italy before the Earthquake

The Piazza del Duomo, before the Earthquake struck l'Aquila in the Abruzzo Mountains of Italy

200 Kilometers south of l’Aquila we visited Pasetta, a colourful mountain man who is the grandson of the last wolfhunter of the Abruzzo. Based in the medieval village of Barrea he runs a camping La Genziana. When we called him this morning to check after his health he answered: “Everything is OK here, there is no damage in Barrea. I was doing a pipi this morning when the tremour started, It is not uncommon so I went back to bed.”

Pasetta, grandson of the last wolf hunter of the Abruzzo mountains in Italy

At the time of taking pictures, I had to smile about the Viagra sign, as all they sell is a jar stuffed to the brim with nuts and honey, according to the Turks a major aphrodisiac. As my eyes panned to the right I suddenly bcame aware of the big belly and a picture was born. Stealthilly I focussed my wide angle on the honey and the unsuspecting woman became the crown on the picture. I think I am slowly discovering the secret behind the large families, some of whom have up to 12 kids.

Istanbul is a vibrant city and I can recommend anyone to come and see it. Check out all the images in this photo gallery of Istanbul, Turkey

The Riverman: John Ruskey of the Quapaw Canoe Company of Clarksdale Mississippi is the only commercial paddler who braves the currents of the Mighty Mississippi River. Jillian and I joined him on a 3 day trip.

The big old river is known to the locals as ‘off limits’. The currents, whirlpools, eddies, its almighty power of a high volume river, not to mention 2 meter large Alligator Gars that will eat your body once you have drowned in its murky waters, have put the fear of god into the people. This is starting to sound right up our alley!

John is trying to educate the people and show them that if you know what you are doing the river is a beautiful goddess rather then a devils toiletbowl. As long as you have respect for the river it will treat you well and you get to enjoy exploring the sandbars, islands and bow lake swamps full of wildlife. Wild boar, coyotes, beavers, rover otters, deer, ducks and geese are among them. We camp on soft silky sandbars, watch the full moon rise out of the campfire, while John is preparing his favourite blacked Catfish dish over the open fire.

After 2 nights camping in relatively good weather, a storm blows in from the south. Before it can do real harm we get to our landing spot where I come eye to teeth with a ome meter long  Alligator Gar. The juvenile has been caught by a fisherman and left on the bank of the river. No respect for nature! A day later we read about three fishermen who disappeared on the river, never to be found, the day we got out. You’ve got to respect the river and treat her right.

Check out this multimedia slideshow with sound about our trip, You will find out that John Ruskey is also a gifted Blues Musician

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Rat sure knows how to make people feel at home. In the corner of his ‘office’ stands a guitar for general purpose use. When joining him on the old couch, he tells stories about times long gone…. or are they? Recently Clarksdale started to climb out of recession as tourism is slowly starting to pick up on the great number of Juke Joints and blues bars.

from thursdays to sundays, every place in town has live music. It is Saturday night so we dicide to paint the town. First is the well known Ground Zero Blues Bar, owned by Morgan Freeman, who obviously next to affinity with Clacksdale also saw the possibilities to do something here. Ground Zero has managed to attract big names as well as local talent  to perform life. Tonight is quiet, although there is nothing wrong with the quality of the band. A group of young women are dancing while others play a game of snooker or chat at the bar.

At 1130 we decide to check out Red’s bar. This is a real Jukejoint: The dark place where the band is lit by the neon light on the wall, and with only 2 meter to spare between the band and the bar, you are immediately surrounded by the blues. 50 people would probably more than fill this place up to the brim. Red, owner of the club, has been drinking tonight and decides to give everybody shit. Most people just ignore him and enjoy the battle between the guitar and the harmonica.

Here in Clarksdale, the heart of the Mississippi Delta, the blues became big. It was here on the crossroads of Hwy49 and 61  that the legendary  Bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for his gifted guitarplay. It was here, where Muddy Waters Grew up in the cottonfields to become one of the biggest heroes of the Delta Blues. It is here, where the Blues tradition is passed on to the next generation. It is in their veigns and part of their DNA. Being in Clarksdale was a unique experience and I know for sure that I will be back here some day.