Zelve

You don't have to go up in a balloon to view the Tufa cones from above, there are lots of lookouts beside the roads in and around Devrent and Zelve.  Of course it is a lot more peaceful in the balloon.  The roadside stops are crowded with tour buses.   They only stop long enough for a photo op so a short walk will take you somewhere you can enjoy the view in relative peace

My favourite fairy chimneys taken from the hill above Zelve looking away from the museum.    Saw these on our first day and made up my mind to come back and take some more photos of them.

Inside this fairy chimney dwell the 'fairy policemen'.   In order to get him to agree to a photograph outside his cop shop we first had to visit with him and his colleague.

Possibly the smallest and least threatening police station in Turkey.  These young men are serving out their compulsory national service as military policemen and doing a great  public relations job with visitors.