Kayseri
Travel Blogs from Kayseri, Turkey
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Kayseri - A wish come true
... way, on an already late night - and for someone he can't even talk too!! very nice. So on our long, silent drive out of Kayseri - I was in awe of the sky around me. I mean, I've lived in the desert. I thought I had seen the galaxy in impressive ...
Impressions of Istanbul...
... , -- best, Hugo Denis here. Just a quick note. We're heading off this morning for Cappadocia. Fly to Kayseri and then a bus to Goreme. Staying in a cave hotel. Hmmmmmm.. Yesterday we finally saw the Blue Mosque. Pretty extraordinary. ...
Televison and Bread
Help! Well no, not really! We were stuck on a bus for 9 hours. 5 hours of television, we are brain dead. We stay in Kayiseri and eat bread and cheese and talk about how this bread and this television are stupifying the people. Opium for the masses. ...
Beer, a barbeque and good friends
... glided by and for much of the ride İ was staring in awe at the snow capped mountain above Kayseri, the third highest mountain in Turkey. İ tracked down a friendly shopkeeper who let me use his phone and also provided me with some sustinence. A ...
Back ın the traıl
... ;th a Turkısh guy for the last hundreds meters to reach Goreme... I am now headıng to Nemrut Dagı, ın SouthEast Turkey. Sınce buses from Goreme were too expensıve, I trıed to put ınto practıce the ...
Kayseri - What Ever Will Be, Will Be....
... from overseas) as if she is an alien. In Istanbul or Ankara she would blend in as the norm. But Kayseri is an older, more traditional Turkey, sneaking into the Middle Eastern side. Scarves on heads aren't compulsory for Muslims, but the vast majority wear ...
Stocking up on appropriate clothing for Iran
... All in all though, I was pretty happy with my purchases - and ready and roaring to be heading into Iran. Kayseri itself is a beautiful town, surrounded by snow-capped mountains and still bearing the remains of an ancient city wall surrounding ...
What about carpet?
... there, the bus would have been a much better option, complete with tea, snacks and regular potty stops. We stayed a night in Kayseri to recover. We washed all of our necessaries in the sink and hung everything with cotton in it to dry on the radiators. ...
Que Sera Sera - Kay Sera E
... it too with only the odd photo stop to delay me. I wonder if that might be another reason for my tardiness............ Anyway Kayseri is a big city - 650000 and to make matters worse the centrum is being ripped up for rd works so after 3 attempts to ...
Travel from Izmir to Kayseri
... of Cappadocia. We flew from Izmir to Kayseri and then drove west into the heart of Cappadocia. Kayseri has a population of 1 million. Turkey's national flower is the tulip. We arrived at our hotel, Kapadokya Lydia Lodge, which was set off by ...
Nemrut Dagi
Adam managed to navigate us along the windy mountain roads to the peak of Nemrut Dagi the next day. This is a tomb-sanctuary built by King Antiochus in 62BC. It is bordered by rather large statues of himself, and various Greek, Armenian and Persian Gods. ...
Kayseri
Arrived in town with a bad stomach - just looking to crash out in my hotel. Was met at the train station by a couple of "helpful" brothers who wanted to invite me for tea after having showed me to a hotel. And by "tea" they meant "carpet shop". ...
Mt. Nemrut
After we visited Urfa, we somehow found a dolmus (pronounced as doalmoosh....minibus) which took us to/past Kahta, about an hour and half drive north to Mt. Nemrut. This was the area that we stayed in a Pension which was about 8km from the mountain peak. ...
Drive to Kayseri
... of wood - rustic - like a Bavarian chalet - and the owner was reportedly now in Germany. We are now at the Hotel Ayata in Kayseri. Catherine reports that the sky is black and we are scheduled to go out to dinner at 7 pm ... in about 15 ...
Tea=no fear juice
... driver kept insisting that you've never really had sex unless you've had it with a woman in the full hijab. Apparently Kayseri's reputation for religious conservatism has found its way into the sex industry. I finally manage to get into the center of ...
The city at the bottom of a ski hill
... to meditate but you have to keep and eye on the road as potholes and other traffic requires full attention Kayseri has the thrird bıggest basar of Turkey and we have seen it during the early evening. What a difference to Istanbul, here we are the ...
In the Shadow of Erciyes
... in LP). Fantastic food. A walk back past spotlit castle walls & minarets capped it off nicely. 9 June A morning to explore Kayseri further before taking the inter-city express bus to Ankara. Lots of C13 Seljuk monuments pepper this town - tombs, ...
Teaching and Enjoying the Snow in Kayseri
... , who is teaching at Erciyus University in Kayseri. In addition to Ana I also have a student at Inonu who is actually from Kayseri. My student, Melek, travelled with me to help me and then her family invited Ana and I to their home for lunch and then on ...
Southeastern Anatolia
After an 11 hour bus ride from Ankara, we were (literally) dropped off on the side of the road at 5:30am in the middle of nowhere, also known as Sanliurfa or "Urfa", quite possibly one of the most sketchy moments in my life. Because we were dropped off ...
Short Entry
... the latest installment on The Tue & Jonathan Horror show! This time we will gıve you a brief introduction to the city of Kayseri, renown all over the world for being one of the only cities without a single bar where you can get pissed and pick up ...
Arrival in Kayseri and drive to Goreme
We arrived in Kayseri about 4 in the afternoon. The arrival seemed inauspicious as our bags did not show up at first and the guy with car was not at the airport. Eventually we retrieved our bags from a different baggage return area and after a ...
corn corn corn
11tilAugust On to Kayseri, still more corn and nothing of any interest happened today. Slept by a river but was a bit dirty to swim ...
Homestay
Wıe ım Beıtrag von Gazıantep erwaehnt, war ıch dıe letzten zweı Naechte beı eıner kurdıschen Famılıe zu Hause. Es war eın super Erlebnıs und erlaubte zumındest eınen ...
Culture soup
... ıde the ınternet cafe ıs rıch wıth culture and contrast. The internet cafe is located adjacent to Kayseri's broad central plaza. Thıs city uses open space better than almost any cıty I have ever vısıted. ...
Sniffling in Transit
... am Istanbul time, I got my tourist visa and headed to a Sports Bar which had free wi-fi service. My next flight to Kayseri, Turkey, was in 4 1/2 hours so I spent a while surfing the net with one eye while the other eye watched cheesy Turkish music ...
Village stay
I had arranged to spend two nights in Yuvacali, a small Kurdish village, nine miles from Hilvan, the nearest town of 22,000. Also included was a trip to another nearby village, Gole, and to a nomadic camp nearby. My homestay family was so welcoming and ...
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