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She's About To Go Under..
This is a top pick! Welcome to Hasankeyf everyone ! Hasankeyf I have to say is probably the 2nd biggest surprise in Turkey for us behind the beautiful Ishak Pasa Palace. We had no real plans of coming here but had heard on the 'travelers' grapevine that it was one of the ...
Hasankeyf
Hasankeyf. Another nice little village with an amazing old rock-cut city in ruins high on a cliff above the Tigris River. The people were friendly and the stop off was well worth it, but it was hot. Really hot. The kind of ...
Hasankeyf: Finally Some Fun
... might come. At least once across the bridge I would have a chance of hitching with any Turkish tourists or weekenders returning to Batman, so I thought. I was about 30 yards from the far end of the bridge when the first vehicle approached. I stuck out my ...
Hasankeyf, In and Around
... walking on past. There was something I wanted to see along the way anyway. Coincidentally, there was a group of university students from Batman that I sort of got mixed in with. However, they stopped to have a picnic or something, and I continued on. But ...
Seljuk, Tigris River, Tombs, Cardaks, Gurdus
... a difference) are boundless and the cemetery is interesting and serene. A very important place in the history of Eastern turkey. We drive through Kurdish countryside, temp 33 degrees C, you could film a spaghetti western here! Nearly at ...
Hasankeyf
... their flock away from the road. Hasankeyf: A half hour later I was in Hasankeyf, a small, nondescript village in the Batman province of Turkey. Nondescript, that is, until you look up. I had no idea what to expect from Hasankeyf. I had seen ...
HasanKeyf
Il nous faudra une matinee en stop pour atteindre le village de Hasankeyf pres de Batman. Apres avoir decouvert le prix des transports en commun en Turquie ou la vie est deja tres chere, on a decide de voyager en stop le plus possible et ca marche. Le ...
In train !
Un long voyage, très long voyage après reflexion. Parti ce lundi 3 novembre en début d'après midi, je devais arriver mercredi en fin de journée à Teheran ; je quittai le train plus tôt que prévu, en milieu d'après midi, à Tabriz. Histoire ...
Hasankeyf
The trip from Mardin to Hasankeyf, which lasted less than an hour, took us through many beautiful hills. The bus dropped me off right in front of the only motel in town, so I left my stuff in a very basic room there and went off to ...
Batman And Robin (Turkey)
... of thýs entry ýs no joke - I havent gone retro for the Bruce Wayne Dark Knýght comic book hero - I really am ýn a town called Batman. Its ýn SE Anatolýa. It has a population of some 250,000. I wonder ýf its twinned wýth a place called Robin? I ...
Eating With My Feet in the Water
We traveled to Hasankeyf, another ancient town in the region, the day after we hit Mardin. The town is by the Tigris River and it must be a quite important place in the past because it has the remains of a big bridge and a big cave city with castle on ...
sõit pimeduse varjus
Olen nõuks võtnud jõuda õhtuks Hasankeyfi ja seega sunnitud sõitma läbi tiheneva pimeduse. Kaks suurt ja üks väike auto on selles pimeduses juba omavahel kokku sõitnud. Tee äärde tekkinud suured tumedad kogud lasevad aimata mägesid. Mis ...
Travelling Eastwards, ever Eastwards...
... and on and ON about the fact that he's a "professional guide" (when that means something quite specific here in Turkey, namely someone like Isa who has completed a 4-year University course covering History, Geography, Hospitality, Languages etc etc; they ...
A day by the Tigris
Arriving in Hasankyef I headed towards the old city, but was told by some police officers that it was closed... looking at the layout of the land I decided to walk all the way around the mountain and try to come out on the other side. After nearly 2 ...
Hasankeyf - an den Ufern des Tigris
... , ob wir ihn verpasst haben oder ob er noch kommt. Wir haben dann einen Deutsch-Türken getroffen, der meinte, es wäre besser nach Batman (ja, die Stadt heißt wirklich so ;) ) zu fahren. Das haben wir in einem mehr als überfüllten Dolmus dann gemacht. ...
Big Tom - bike wifi
Sat outside in the far east end of turkey on big tom's iPhone using the Internet that is being broadcast by his bike. An odd feeling. Not sure about it. ...
Hasankeyf
... be under water, to be loved and admired no more! Such a pity and shame to lose such a gorgeous place... This area of Turkey is quite close to the borders and with such a high population of Kurdish people, there has in recent times been tensýon ...
Endangered City
Hasankeyf, an ancient town on the banks of the Tigris river, has been threatened with flooding from a new dam. It seems to have won a reprieve and become part of the semi-off-the-beaten tourist path. This was the first place I saw some non-local, Western ...
The Soon To Be Flooded Hasankeyf
Hasankefy is an ancient town situated along the banks of the Tigris River. If the construction of the Ilisu Dam project is completed this historically rich city will be ...
Three days of bush campıng
Sunday May 9th Truck day – we left the camp site at 10am and drove East all day. I sat next to Viena today so we had a good day chatting. We stopped at a village to get lunch and went to a local produce market where a lot of the girls were given ...
Merhaba
Landed a day early ın bodrum after plannıng an overnıght ın kos. Not a stressful journey but a fast taxı rıde ın the dark was causıng a few crıes from the back seat . . wandered ınto ...
Oct 09, 2010
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