The village Ibrahimpasa in Cappadocia, in central Turkey, where we went to study the water issues of the region. 

Our DAI house for 10 days:

 

Talking with Willemijn Bouwman, who invited the DAI to contribute to her project: the Art Eco Platform.

 

Collection of trash in Ibrahimpasa

 

Walking in the amazing landscape: for thousands of years, people built their houses by cutting them into the soft rock. 

 

In the Göreme Open Air Museum, where once was a bustling Monastery community, with numerous chapels, refectories, kitchens and living quarters cut into the rock.

 

In the underground city of Derinkuyu

 

The on-site classroom of the Organic Agriculture Program of the Cappadocia Vocational College in Mustafapasa with their teacher Ceren Nazik (on the right).

 

Walk with Mehmet Ali, the deputy mayor, along the water infrastructure of Ibrahimpasa 

 

The former Orthodox church in Ibrahimpasa

 

Visiting the Wali (governor) of Nevsehir

for more see: www.nevsehir.gov.tr/haber_oku.php?id=720 

 At the garbage dump of Nevsehir

 

Examining the water of the natural hot spring in Bayramhaci

 

 

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 15th, 2008 at 11:53 am and is filed under Results of the Trip.