 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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ABOVE CAPPADOCIA, Turkey — ""Look, look,"" my wife, Uzay, shouted, pointing to an eagle as we sl
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ABOVE CAPPADOCIA, Turkey -- "Look, look," my wife, Uzay, shouted,
pointing to an eagle as we slowly drifted in a hot-air balloon above
the mushroomed-shaped rock formations of Cappadocia, an area so eerie
and other worldly that it was the site of some of the filming for
"Star Wars."
Formed by gas bubbling through volcanic ash, Cappadocia has become
a favorite site for tourists in hot-air balloons who can slowly drift
above the "fairy chimneys" of stone that are so soft that Byzantine
G...
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Sorry, We Are Deflated; Sadness as Branson balloon bid ends in Pacific disaster.(News)
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