Harran Sanliurfa

... of Swords Valley. After walking back to town I stopped at Yama Travel and signed up for a 3-day trip to Eastern Turkey to see Mt. Nemrut and Sanliurfa. It was an expensive package (US$125), but it was all-inclusive and covered a lot of ground, and it ...

... years ago, the patriarch of faiths, Abraham, was born in the town of Ur Kasdim. To most people this place is Sanliurfa. A cave--Abraham's birthplace--in the center of the city, next to the Mosque of Abraham, was busy with pilgrims entering--men on one ...

Sanliurfa or Urfa as it is known was the place we needed to be to access the big heads of Nemrut Dagi also the fabled birth place of Abraham. Irish Sarah had said the heads weren't worth the it but David was determined to prove her wrong. I thought ...

... not missed much, so I hope she was telling me the truth !!! That was Urfa. It was nice and small, we are now seeing less and less of the Western Infidels that plagued Western Turkey, but we are taking another night bus. Suckers for punishment I say ...

... that made it very endearing to me. And besides that, it is just a beautiful garden/park. (http://www.enjoyturkey.com/info/sights/sanliurfa.htm) Following upon visiting the Museum I turned left out the door (on a side street) and at about 30 paces on ...

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14/7-16/7 Sanliurfa or Urfa as it is also known is a largish town near the Syrian border, and the hottest town in Turkey, not that we knew it at the time! It has a great vibe to it, and you really feel as if you have stepped into the Middle East. ...

As one of the oldest inhabited places on Earth, Harran is an ancient village where some believe is the location where Adam and Eve settled upon being cast out of Eden and also where the book of Genesis mentions as the place where Abraham spent time ...

We took a quick day trip to Harran from Sanliurfa.  Probably the most amazing fact about this place is that it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on Earth.  The city is mentioned in the Bible's book of Genesis and Abraham ...

... dry of Turkey continued to be reinforced. The usual drinking of Turkish tea near the local bazaar was a treat. When in Sanliurfa, Shaun become an instant celebrity. Wearing his Galatasaray shirt, Shaun made many friends, who were fascinated with his ...