The masculinist deep within me shuddered at the prospect of my very own man-cave at Göreme. I didn’t have any tools to sharpen, a jet-ski to polish, a wifey to moan about, a television to watch cricket or a broken bottleneck to slide the blues. I just had the mentality of any ordinary alienated and socially retarded being who believes it’s pitiful that the only way some castrated males achieve a feeling of power is through pwning their own cave. I now understand why the Islamic Ottomans despised the caves of Cappadocia. The Ottomans, a culture founded on male dominance, believed that only animals, Christians such as the hermaphroditic hermit Saint Onuphrius and, harem-ically speaking, women should live in caves.
The spectacularly eroded volcanic tuff plateau of the Göreme valley has some exciting trails for exploring troglodyte culture. Within the pillar and spire rock formations a network of caves have been excavated, by mainly Byzantine Christians, which served as refuges, residences, storage and places of worship dating from the 4th century.
