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Mardin Slideshow
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ERDOBA KONAKLARI Mardin
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Bilem Hotel Mardin
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Travel Blogs from Mardin, Turkey
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The Saffron Town
This is a top pick! Overlooking a spring green and brown plain, Mardin encircles a buttress-like fortress with narrow streets and old buildings: mosques, medreses, homes, and a hidden monastery. The plain descended imperceptively into Syria as the sun set over ...
'Turkey's Old Jerusalem'..
This is a top pick! ... going to have to offer us something special if she was to capture our hearts and minds. And she didn't disappoint. Mardin is a beautiful ancient town crowned with a castle overlooking the vast, roasted Mesopotamian plains that extend into Syria. The ...
Mardin Cont'd
This is a top pick! ... are allowed to attend the Sunday service, but this Sunday the service was not held at the Forty Martyrs. Remember that Mardin has been established on a hill. Kurds occupy the lowest altitudes; Syrian Christians live in the middle and Arabs live at the ...
Mardin
This is a top pick! ... Selim Amca, for dinner. The best I have ever had. Apparently, they have chains in Istanbul. I'm staying at a renovated traditional Mardin house called Erdoba Konaklari. It's a boutique hotel with stylish yet dusty rooms. My hosts would not let me ...
Mardin: For Others
I don't know; lots of travelers like Mardin. I just couldn't get into it. Not physically, I don't mean. It just didn't do anything for me at this time. Could it be that because a military base occupied top of the the high hill overlooking the town, and I ...
Mardin
... experience all the energy that puts something like our Super Bowl to shame. The roar of the city, yes the ENTIRE city when Turkey scores a goal is amazing. Sadly, Germany put an end to Turkey's hopes of getting into the final game while ...
Mardin
... 4 YTL but is free on Fridays, as well as some of the city at night. He was infectiously enthusiastic about Mardin's beauty. The next morning I found Murat waiting for me at the foot of my hotel at 7:30 in the morning. He smiled and ...
Savur
We took the 35 mile ride to Savur just for one night. It was recommended for being devoid of tourists and having a great place to stay. Just a bonus stop along our way. The accommodations were outstanding and, to be honest, we ...
Gobekli Tepe:The World's Oldest Religious Site
There is a saying in Turkey that goes something to the effect that, " One only needs to push a spade into the ground, and flip the earth to see thousands of years of history". Well, after living here for the past three years I have spent much time ...
Mardin:The Turkish Jerusalem
... a steep hillside on it's way to the vast valley of the Mesopatamian fertile crescent, you will have the image of Mardin. Now imagine a diverse population of Yezidi, Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish, Christian and Syrian peoples living and working within these ...
People buried in the walls of the Monastery
Another fab view this morning across Syria. The Saffron Monastery this morning, with a Sun Temple built in 1000 BC. The stones which create the roof are only being held up by themselves, if one falls down, the the Monastery above will ...
Cave of Abraham
... the hotel, for if I stayed any longer, I think Steve could have fried an egg on my head! This is our last night in Turkey. Tomorrow afternoon we say fairwell to Turkey and Hello to Syria! :) It has been an unfrogetfull 2 weeks in this colouful land of ...
Just like home
... reason he went on that bus with me was to make sure I got to where I needed to go without any problems. The ride to Mardin was pleasant. The 3 young adults I sat with knew some English so we spoke for a while. I told them I wanted to stay at a ...
Tatvan - Nusaybin
Itinerary : Tatvan - Nusaybin Dates : 24th of November 2007 Mileage in Turkey : 670 km Mileage so far : 16070 km I think the bed I was sleeping on last night was in solid wood as my luck was back again! Indeed, we woke up to a bright sunny ...
Midyat
... and run about 10 YTL for the 3 hour journey). But since the bus wasn't full enough at 9, we didn't leave until 9:35. Mardin: I slept almost the whole way to Mardin, since I think my body is still in the process of kicking a mean caffeine addiction ...
Midyat
Do you like Turkey? Spoergsmaalet blev stillet i en forventningsfuld tone, mens vi stadig befandt os i turisttyrkiet,. Og vi svarede, hvad der blev forventet; yes, it's very nice here. Men skal vi vaere aerlige, saa var vi ikke imponerede over ...
Midyat
In Midyat, I quickly booked a room near the minibus terminal, and then set out to find its 9 Syrian Orthodox churches (or, more accurately, 7 churches and 2 monasteries) in the old part of town. However, the churches are hard to ...
PKK Country
... lands of Mesopotopia. I'm looking out down on the fertile, flat plains running into Syria, but whilst a world appart from Western Turkey, this looks and feels so different from Northern Syria, 15 miles down the road. Some parts of the dress are ...
Mardin
... ; No problem! It was pretty basic, but at least I could forget about looking for a room and do some sightseeing. Mardin is a very attractive little town from some vantage points, with hillsides covered with cascades of honey-colored houses. It ...
Sanilurfa And Mardýn (Turkey)
... imposıng cale. Simply gorgeous. I saw it both at night and this mornıng before drıvıng to Mardin where I am now. Tommorow I plan on visiting the nearby Deyrul Zafaran Monastery before passing thru the town of Batman - I wonder if its ...
Going South
Mardin is an ancient town (established around 7 century BC) south of Diyarbakir, almost to the Syrian border. Its setting is beautiful, on the slope of a hill overlooking the sun baked, vast Mesopotamian plain, all the way to Syria. It has a big bazaar ...
Liegt nett, klingt nett aber....
... mit Loch in der Wand..... und all das zu Preisen wie an der Mosel. Neben einer überlaufenen Stadt bleibt uns Mardin als erster Vorposten des Gebiets der Drachenläufer in Erinnerung. Holzkreuze, bespannt mit Plastikplane und langen Drachenschwänzen, ...
Tage im Fastparadies
... - oder eben dem, was sich aus den Zutaten in Savur so zusammenrühren konnte. Savur ist die noch verschlafene Schwester von Mardin. Einmal an den Läden und Teesalons vorbei gegangen, und schon ist man bekannt wie bunter Hund und wird von Nachbarn zum ...
Sep 09, 2010
Big Trouble on the Last Bus to Batman (Journal)
... all aboard that he could. The sight of all of them standing there watching us go won't make it onto the cover of the Lonely Planet Turkey guide. Along the way we dropped a few off. But by the time the storm hit, things had settled down on board to a ...
Not so amazing city, but amazing dinner
... driving to our next city, Van. The drive to Van is long, 9 hours. So this morning we stopped at Midyat, a town outside Mardin to view a palace. Another home that was restored by the government. It was very similar to the post office from a few days ...
Welcome to Southeastern Anatolia!
... there, and hop on to the next place whenever the time seemed right. I immediately fell in love with Mardin. Quite often described as "the Old Jerusalem of Turkey" it really has this ancient, Middle Eastern feel to it. The town, composed of all ...
Christians? Kurds?
In Midyat I discovered that people in this part of the world differentiate between Arabs and Syrians... Syrians being the Syrian Christians. Funny because probably once upon a time they were all "Syrians" but those who converted to Islam have taken on ...
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