Sivas, Turkey Travel Blogs

Cappadocia
Jul 22, 2006

... uneventful. Our lunch stop started out great, until we got our food. Seriously, worst meal I had in about 2 months in Turkey. Almost inedible. And I'm a college student without a meal plan... in other words, my DNA is 27% hyena until I graduate. ...

A Daytrip to Divrigi
Oct 30, 2007 (23 photos)

... heritage site of Divrigi, about a 3 hour bus ride from Sivas . It is the least visited of all the world heritage sites in Turkey due to its remote location but is still meant to be worth a look. With no one speaking English, we somehow managed to catch ...

Sivas: Party Time!
May 17, 2008 (4 photos)

... the room each made a personal introduction to the assembly. In my turn I tried in sketchy Turkish to present myself. The Sivas hosts had provided a musician, a single saz player, for the evening's activity, which was to lead the group of men in singing ...

Heading East to Sivas
Oct 29, 2007 (24 photos)

... town. I followed the noise and then discovered it was coming from the Independence Day parade. Independence Day in Turkey commemorates the proclamation of the republic by Ataturk in 1923. The parade involved the local school children marching through ...

Previously Traveled but not Blogged
Aug 16, 2008

Kale Camii

Turkey
Sep 16, 2006 (4 photos)

This is where I had my hot air balloon ride. We also had lunch with a village lady at her home. We were able to ask her questions and found out a lot of information about Turkish women and customs. We also visited one of the underground cities. This ...

Week 4
Jul 21, 2007 (5 photos)

It is week 4 already. Some of my students have drifted home and I'm starting to feel much less like a mother hen. They have flown the cope, so to speak, and now I can stop worrying about them. I drove the remaining 5 girls out to dinner in Konya Sunday ...

Relics of the old amongst the new
Apr 24, 2002

Nothing to see here - map pin only.

Cappadocia
Jul 16, 2007 (13 photos)

Dan and I escaped to Cappadocia for the weekend. This is one of the perks of having a car and one of the main reasons that Dan wanted to drive out here in the first place. One of the Turkish women working here hooked us up with a friend of hers in ...

Bored Ambassador
Jun 20, 2007

I've settled into site nicely. After four years, it is easy to slide into the swing of things. We arrived late Tuesday evening and did a round of greetings and hugs. The team is about 30 not with a few new faces, some of which have worked on the same ...

A surprise in an abandoned world
Oct 2, 2009 (5 photos)

From Erzincan to Divrigi we travel along a small river on a small road. The valley is shared with a small railroad and the street and the bed of the river sometimes compete for space. The river has at  times created its way through the rock leaving ...

The City of Caves
Oct 14, 2006 (4 photos)

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