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- Ankara
- Capital
- Turkish Lira (TRL)
- Currency
- 66,493,970
- Population
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Ankara
Travel Blogs from Ankara, Turkey
Ankara
Well, Ankara has been kind of slow. Sait has been studying for his final and for his assignment. We've gone out a few times, but most of the sites I want to see are not here. The traffic still gets to me. I can't believe how close people get and not hit ...
Final thoughts on Turkey
We only made a brief stop in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, on our way back to Istanbul. From Istanbul, I took a flight to Manchester U.K. and then transfered back to Vancouver. I will regroup in Vancouver before heading out to Asia, making a first stop ...
Ankara: Chapter 9: Townscape and Anatolia
... . She is planning a visit to Turkey in September, 2008. It's title is Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates: A Woman`s Trek Through Turkey, by Üstün Bilgen-Reinart, a Turkish woman, to be true, but apparently raised in Canada. From the back cover blurb this, ...
Ankara: Chapter 5: Soap Opera Episode 3
... to get some help in my understanding of what was going on with this kid. Four years ago, on my previous visit to Turkey, I had met at the university a matronly British woman who headed up the department of English teacher education. So I thought of her ...
Turkey's Capital
Ankara, as the capital of Turkey, is very modern. Here we visited Ataturk’s Mausoleum...one of the largest in the world commemorating past President’s/leaders. Actually we didn't do much here and I don't think it ...
Still in Ankara...
Well, I am still in Ankara. But, I ended up with a little more time than I expected so I went over to the Museum of Anatolian civilizations this afternoon. I finally got to see all the famouse artifacts from Catalhoyuk that I have only seen in photos up ...
Couchsurfing Heaven
... was fasting. The last thing they need was the smell of chocolate chip cookies I arrived in Ankara at noon. I went searching for an internet café to see if Bilge replied to my last email and she did. She explained ...
just passing through......
... a modern vibe about it........ spent a few hours playing cards in a cool cafe where they played french and turkish music and had its walls filled with posters of old turkish movies........ ooohhhh....... maybe we'll give Ankara a real go next ...
Last Day in Ankara
... around to the other site. There are a lot of pictures that I took. It was a really sunny (and hot I guess for Ankara) day. The detail on the building was beautiful. The roof had beautiful paintings on them and the walls had pictures carved into ...
Ankara: Chapter 8: Something Completely Different
18th Mar 2008 And Now For Something Completely Different In case you are not aware, I despise George Bush with an unmitigated, thorough passion. I have had a chance today to catch-up and read the on-line New York Times which has a book review which ...
The Blue Voyage
DAY 46. SEPTEMBER 16. MEDITERRANEAN SEA The Blue Voyage Today our group was spilt in two. Half of us were taking a 3-day, 2 nights Gulet (pronounced gullet) cruise around the Mediterranean Sea whilst the others stayed behind. These gulet cruises are ...
Ankara: Chapter 3: Soap Opera Episode 2
... from the mother, and Jim thought her "really pissed." (Such is the way cynics react). So, he walked up to the heights of Ankara's Castle, up from the hotel--which he checked out of just at noon. Up til the last moment reading the Sunday New York Times on ...
Hanging Out with Dear Friends in Istanbul
We spent our Kurban Bayram holiday in Istanbul, with our very dear friends Carsten and Christina... We have been meeting up with them in many countries around the World and were very excited to see them again. Each time we get together it ...
Bye Bye Europe, welcome to Asia.
... take a few pictures and ride out took as 3 hours. Not bad, isn't it?. Anyway we sticked to the plan and hit the road to Ankara. Turkey have very good motorways, at least the ones we used. I am not sure if they have any others and if any of those are ...
Ankara: Chapter 11: Soap Episode 5
... 1921. That battle is memorialized in one of the huge detailed panoramic paintings in the Anitkabir (the Ataturk Mausoleum) in Ankara--along with a continuous recording of battle sounds. As one approaches Bursa you come down off the Anatolian Plateau. The ...
Cappadocia: A Touristy Thing
... was the only one from a beginning class. We left Ankara at about 8 am Saturday. Our first stop was south of Ankara at the Great Salt Lake of Turkey, the second largest lake in the country. I didn’t find it too interesting, frankly. But there you ...
Turkey 2
My Highlights: 1. Pamukkale 2. Cappedocia 3. Antalya 4. Ataturk Memorial/Museum 5. Entertainment at the Kervensaray in Istanbul 6. Seeing the Whirling Dervishes 7. Hagia Sophia 8. Topkapi ...
Interim Desitination - Turkey
... . Why Ankara? No real reason other than it was somewhere on the map that was readily within reach of southern Turkey and hence Syria. Landed in a snow covered Ankara at -10 oC in a tee shirt and light jacket. Although, with the absence of any wind, ...
Ankara: Chapter 4: Interlude: Not So Far From Home
This morning I returned to this Ankara, Turkey bookstore where I have found there to be a free wi-fi, or wireless, access. The bookstore has a coffee shop, called Gloria Jean`s, believe it or not. So one can surf the internet while having a coffee and ...
Ankara, Chapter 1: Turkish Keyboards
... haven't yet an internet connection for my personal laptop. There are two alternatives. I could go to a commercial internet cafe. In Turkey these are most often full of second-hand smoke. The keyboards are usually beat to death. Also, most frequently there ...
Leaving Christmas night
With no one here for Christmas this year, we decided to follow the route of the wise men (sort of) and head to Egypt, Jordan and Israel - just in time for Epiphany. Here we ...
Ankara: Chapter 10: Macro and Micro
26th Mar 2008 Of Large and Small I've come to Turkey for two reasons: 1) to engage in my hobby of reading history--particularly of the origins and development of what we call Western Civilization, which has its origins here, while living in this ...
Turkey's Capital
Today we flew to Ankara on our way to Cappadocia. While in Ankara, Turkey's modern capital, we headed to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations at the base of Ankara Castle and old town. The museum is home of the greatest collection of Hittite and ...
A Quick Trip to Bursa
... from Ankara took 6 hours, and left Ankara at just after 8am, about 10 minutes after I arrived at the otogar, the bus station. Turkey has the most incredible bus transportation system. Not just this time. I find it ever so. The buses are large and clean. ...
Zeuss,s Tomb
... 305;fe so I had to slow down agaın. Arrıved at Ankara ın good tıme to joın the Vstrom Turkıyıe (Ankara branch) weekly meetıng. was great to meet more strommers. had a byte to eat and on to a bıker,s pub for few ...
yours truly, the Crankasaraus Rex
... to tie on a branch of a big bush where thousands of others had tied ribbons and they instructed me to make a wish. and i did. i like turkey where there are lots of opportunities to make wishes. on the way home Madje asked me if i wanted to go to a ...
Unterwegs mit James / On the way with James
... doch diesmal mit James dem Engländer mit gleicher Route. Etwas langsamer unterwegs erreichen wir trotz Tabu (Nachtfahrten) bei Dunkelheit Ankara um 20:00h. Trotzdem günstiges Hotel gefunden. XXXXX After nearly 3 weeks in Istanbul and very diffrent ...
Turkish Delight on a Moonlit Night
... . On A Moonlit Night If all the bread in the world were laid end to end it would still be less than the amount of bread consumed in Turkey each day. There is no escaping it. Fee and I have tried so hard to have bread free days but it is impossible. For ...