Kapadokya
A 12 hour bus ride dumped us in the dramatic desert landscape of Kapadokya (Cappadoccia) at 7:00 a.m., just as the morning's balloons were coming down. Here we were busy with hikes and a driving tour to an underground city, Ilhara Valley, a dramatic Crater Lake and medieval monastery carved out of rock. 2 Nights and 3 days later we took a second 12 hour, overnight bus ride to Fethiya, on the Southwest coast.
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Chuck's photo.
Another photo by Chuck.
Guess what the board is for. In the bottom are pounded narrow rocks, hard with sharp edges, broken like arrowheads. We were puzzled by the purpose and couldn't figure it out. The stones are very hard, like flint. I ran into a monument to the struggle for Turkish Independence in Selcuk that seemed to incorporate an image of these rows of rocks.
Here's the answer. The hard boards are found, softened, bent up at the front; hard, flint-like rocks are pounded in; attached to horses, stand on it for weight and it is a thresher of wheat.
Our hotel host, Mustafa, said he has fine memories of his grandfather putting him on the thresher and dragging him over the wheat.
