Cappadocia is the common name of the plains and mountainous region of eastern central Anatolia around the upper and middle reaches of the river Kizilirmak. It’s name is said to be derived from Hittite language, Katpatuka, which means land of the beautiful horses.

This region’s amazing landscape is largely underlain by sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams, and ignimbrite deposits erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately 9 to 3 million years ago (late Miocene to Pliocene epochs). The volcanic deposits are soft rocks that, for hundreds of years, the people of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia Region carved out to form houses, churches, monasteries and underground cities. Forces of erosion have shaped the incredible and unique Cappadocian tuff-coned landscape. This nature and man made structures now make a popular tourist destination.

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Cappadocia is also famous for it’s fairy chimney – a conical rock formation which consist of a cap of hard rock resting on a cone-shaped pinnacle of softer rock

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I decided to share the world’s natural wonders I posted last month via YouTube. I plan to make it monthly. So it check here monthly for new videos.

The Mekong river is the 11th longest river in the world. It run in six countries – China’s Yunnan province, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. With it’s length of 4,350 kilometers, it is the 7th longest river in Asia. It discharges an estimated of 475 km3/114 cu mi of freshwater to the sea annually and it drains an area of 795,000 km2.

Because of it’s massive size, no wonder Mekong is home to the world’s giant freshwater fishes. This giants are now becoming small in number due to human activities.

The name “MEKONG” originate from the Thai language, Mae Nam Khong, which means “Mother-River Khong”.

Mekong river serves as a major transportation and economic route to all villages around it.