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Sanliurfa Slideshow
Top Hotels in Sanliurfa
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Dedeman Sanliurfa
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Rabis Hotel Sanliurfa
13 reviews -
Hotel El Ruha Sanliurfa
18 reviews -
Hotel Arte Sanliurfa
16 reviews
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Ipek Pasha Hotel Sanliurfa
3 reviews
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Beyzade Konak Sanliurfa
7 reviews
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Arte Hotel Sanliurfa
4 reviews
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Harran Hotel Sanliurfa
7 reviews
Sanliurfa
Travel Blogs from Sanliurfa, Turkey
Troglodytes, orgies and the odd Arab
This is a top pick! ... Read: are you checking it out for some kind of attack?) It seems the beard is almost working better than it should. A Sanliurfa resident says Turkey has the headwaters, the control, and Iraq has the oil. Why don't they trade resources? Good question. What ...
Chapter 47: Holy carp!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Shenshashional Sanliurfa
This is a top pick! ... have cost $5 in Syria costs $25 here - even with a phoney student discount. Our first stop is Sanliurfa, a recommendation from our fellow Jordan travellers Hamish and George. The town's main tourist attraction is nearby Mount Nemrut, ...
Hello Donkey, Money Money..
This is a top pick! Greetings from Urfa and our last major stop in Turkey (we think). Confusingly Urfa is also known as Sanliurfa which means apparently 'Glorious Urfa'. And again it's also known as the Prophets City. It's one of Turkey's main pilgrimage towns as legend ...
Prophets and the Fall of Nomadic Life
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
A look round Urfa
This is a top pick! ... by kids wanting things, naturally. We talked for a while to a young Australian girl who had been travelling on her own through Turkey. She had done some cool stuff. There were some good views of Urfa but that's about it for the kale. I wanted to ...
Beehive Houses (and a bit of Urfa)
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Home of Abraham
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Sanliurfa
This is a top pick! ... different. My new friend Tony was with me. People generalize the problem of terrorism to the entire region of Southeastern Turkey. This is just too much. What happens in Diyarbakir should be contained in Diyarbakir. Sometimes, even in Istanbul, I ...
Sanliurfa and Gobekli Tepe: Not to be Missed
... 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 ...
The hottest town in Turkey
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. The ...
Harran
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 ...
Harran
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 ...
Sanliurfa
Turkey becomes Middle Eastern. Mens dress sense becomes Middle Eastern. The hijab is starting to be worn more. The people are more hospitable and more than willing to talk about the Kurdish plight. A real baptism of fire in travelling and a very ...
Nemrut
... , tomrrow I wıll head ınto Syrıa, mıssıng Mardın and Medıat, so that I can come back to Turkey to see them (wıfe wıllıng). Mıleage about 3650. Now upload pıcs and deep sleep wıth bıg ...
Sanliurfa
From Mt Nemrut we headed south to the city of Sanliurfa and to a definitely hotter location in Turkey where the still, dry climate easily creeps past 90 F. The city is firmly in the southeastern part of the country so we also ...
The Black and the Dry in Turkey
... 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 shirt ...
Finally on the road
... I packed up and had my aunts drop me off at the bus garage. After a 19 hour bus trip I am in South Eastern Turkey in a city called Sanliurfa or Urfa for short. It used to be known as Edessa in ancient times and dates back to 4th century BC. Also known ...
Back in Sanliurfa
So after a few hours in the small village of Akcakale on the border of Syria I was not successful in crossing into Syria. Grr...Turkey is so expensive and I was so looking forward to 30 cent meals and 2 dollar a night hotels. I even had the mayor of ...
Meeting everyone in Sanliurfa
So after a 20 hour bus journey I arrived on other side of Turkey in Sanliurfa (Urfa, to the locals). During the bus ride a TV showed gunfighting between some Kurdish insurgents and the government, Yuksel cheerfully showed me where it was on ...
City of Prophets
I hate Urfa. Arriving in this town I really got nervous about travelling further into the Middle Eastern world. Walking through the town in capri troussers and a loose shirt I felt like soft porn on legs. The atmosphere in the town was really not nice, ...
Istanbul to ªanli Urfa
We have some catchıng up to do... Two weeks have passed sınce we last spoke and ın that tıme ıt feels as ıf we have seen almost the entırety of Turkıye. Leavıng our Iranıan frıends ...
Decided to attempt border crossing
Got up this morning in Urfa and decided to go talk to some folks at the bus terminal. Foudn out that I could go to a town about 50km south of Urfa called Akcakale that is on the Syrian border and that sometimes they let people cross. The van driver ...
Pious Sanliurfa & Harran
... An indicatıon of the incredıbly positıve reactions I get from people when I tell them I'm Amerıcan. After arriving in Sanliurfa I made friends instantly. The bathroom attendant ınstructed me on how to find my hostel, and after I got lost because ...
Urfa/Sanlıurfa: For Archaeology: Gobekli Tep
... : http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html (November, 2008) and, http://www.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/turkey.html (December, 2008) So, I don't have much to say about the site and its relevance, ectcetera, that isn't said by ...
30 pounds lighter
... . They gave me the sandwich to go which was a problem as I still couldn't eat in public because it was Ramadan. In this part of Turkey the people seemed to be very conservative so I knew I couldn't just eat out on the streets. The best I could do was eat ...
Rollercoaster of fun
Hallo allemaal, Ja we weten het; de updates komen maar zeer sporadisch door maar dat komt doordat we er gewoon geen tijd voor hebben. Meestal zijn we 's avonds ofwel te moe, ofwel aan het feesten ofwel moeten we er heel vroeg uit voor een of andere ...
Nemrut Continued
Day 25 of Trip: 1. Ibis Bird Sanctuary (Nearly Extinct) 2. 9 hour transfer to Goreme ...
Ancient Harran
... of it. I miust say I am very disappointed with my decision not to travel to some of the eastern and south-eastern parts of Turkey. I will definitely have to return to this part of the country some time in the future, I promised the guys at the restaurant ...