Hidden across three valleys in Cappadocia is Zelve, where hundreds of caves and rock-cut churches climb straight up the canyon walls.
In this clip, filmed during our Seven Churches cruise -- @Joel7Richardson takes you inside one of the earliest cradles of Christian monastic life. Chapels and dwellings were carved into this rock as far back as the 4th–6th centuries, when the monastic movement was just beginning. Families went on living in these caves well into the 20th century. A path even winds up through the mountain to windows near the summit, one of the most mysterious vantage points in all of Turkey.
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