Never mind 6 ft under! Try exploring a man-made, ancient underground city that’s 200 ft below the earth’s surface and over 2000 years old!!! 😮 The entrance to the city looks like an old cave - right out of a horror movie! (Think the mines in Sabrina on Netflix.)I was super nervous 😬 but it turned out to be one of my best travel experiences ever! Once you’re past the entrance, it’s incredible and very well maintained!😅 Derinkuyu in Cappadocia goes 2 to 4 levels down and is so vast it has storage rooms, homes, kitchens, schools, chapels 💒 , tombs and even wine 🍷 presses and cellars! First built in the 6th to 7th centuries BC, it’s been used as a refuge during wars - particularly by Christians during the Byzantine wars. I don’t know how long I could live in an underground city but it was oddly the perfect temperature and had sufficient oxygen due to the ventilation shafts. (A relief as two of us have asthma!) I had a peak down one and got vertigo! It went so far down, seemed to reach into the core of the earth. #underground #undergroundcities #ancientcity #derinkuyu #cappadocia #turkey #cappadociaturkey #offthebeatenpath #explorer #travelgrams #travelgrams #travelblogger #instatravel #expattravel #expatliving #expatfamily #familyvacation #instatravelgram #travelblog #travelturkey #travelcappadocia (at Derinkuyu underground city) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByEpE1VAGXd/?igshid=xbdy2v6dor1g