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Konya Slideshow
Konya
Travel Blogs from Konya, Turkey
Into the heartland
Another day another stroll around the neighbourhood at 6:30. This time we wake up the neighbourhood by walking down an alleyway and setting off a dog who growled and barked, lunging out at us from the end of his chain. Hope no one wanted a sleep in. ...
A LOOK AT A CARAVANSERAI
... up the back as Madame needed another sweater. Left at 1545, first having a piece of pistachio chocolate from Di. Sometimes I think Turkey is one big farm. Still on D-300 and quite tired. Reached the city limits of Konya at 1647 but circumvented most of ...
selime, ihlara
Selime war genial...wieder mal etwas was im Guidebook nur nebenbei erwaehnt wurde...also...Selime is ein kleines Dorf....links und rechts von der Piri Pansion sind 2 hohe Felsen... links ist eine Kathedrale und ein Kloster in den Berg gehauen, rechts ...
How me and Jonathan almost dıed
... air, it then turned dark so we had to spend a night in a tent next to a mosque ın the blistering night cold of Eastern Turkey. We woke up early the next day, seeing that the call to prayer starts already at 05.00 in the morning and again a ...
Brief stop
A brief stop in Konya, overnight and one morning. Everything was dirt cheap, but it was pouring rain, so I didn´t do any shopping. Plus, shopping is an arduous experience in this country. And every single person on the street has a damn carpet ...
Ilgın - Konja
06.06.2011 45. Etappe Start: Illgın öğretmenevi (Lehrerwohnheım) Startzeit: 5:45 Uhr km: 91 Gesamt km: 3785 Ziel: Konja öğretmenevi (Lehrerwohnheım) Sehr schoene Fahrt. Nach 20 km eıne Baeckereı ...
Obruk hani
We left Konya this morning after a splendid breakfast with pancakes. We were well taken care of by Housieyn, who baked an extra pile and packed it for us to take on the road. We discovered that we can ride a good 80 km on the food. The landscape is flat, ...
Detour to Konya
... the days of the Hitties, who called it Kuwanna. It is now the most religiously conservative city in Turkey – and proud of it. The reason to visit Konya is to see the Mevlana Museum which shelters the tomb of Jelaleddin Rumi, known to his followers ...
City of Rumi
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi[2] (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian (Tajik)[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and ...
Turkey
... a bit discouraged. We then went on to Konya. This is in the central part of western Turkey and an extremely conservative community. Most women were covered. Konya is where Paul,one of the disciples gave his first sermon. There is a church named ...
Onya Konya!
13 hours on buses in one day is a lot. That's what we endured before reaching Konya. Thankfully one of the culinary highlights of the trip was waiting for us. Orientation walk around Konya the next day, then to Mevlana Museum (originator of the ...
Konya, stad van de dansende Derwisjen en Beysehir
... 'he von Beysehir ist ein Hittitischer Brunnen. In der Stadt entdecken wir den für uns bis jetzt schönste Moschee Esrefoglü. Konya, ville des Derviches dansants et Beysehir Konya, fondée au 12ème siècle est la plus importante ville des ...
Hot Air Balloon Trip of a LIFETIME!
... Konya is the Mevlana Mausoleum and museum housing manuscripts of Mevlana's work and artifacts of the Dervishes and their religion. Konya is a very religious city, people are expected to dress conservatively, even the tourists and there is no alcohol sold ...
Capadoccia to Konya
Merhaba - that means hello in turkish - i have finally sort of figured out the kayboard - when i t ype it all looks like english but when i go back to view, all of the i's (the letter after h) turn into something else so just substitute an i (the ...
For all the rush, this train is slow
... over to the Mevlana Museum, more of a shrine then a museum. Wikipedia helps in these lazy times: The Mevlâna museum, located in Konya, Turkey, is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Sufi mystic also known as Mevlâna or Rumi. It was also the ...
Konya
I traveled today from Pammukale to Konya. It was an 8 hour bus rıde that was supposed to be to be dırect. If dırect means stoppıng every 15 mınutes, then I got my money worth. Sınce ıt was a travel day, nothıng much excıtıng went on. I am ...
konya
means "tonight" in japanese, mum bought some turquase earings. she like that stone. and we went into a ...
Pumakkare
We have somehow dropped off the beaten path now. The language barrier has thickened. I don't say much. A lot of "blue collar sign language" as İ call it. I end up thinking a lot more. Watching people and how they act. Where did our ...
Konya
Another fantastic day, I am doing this Blog again (sorry to Marion's friends) but we have just had a drama in our Palatial Room, the air con seemed to be on high, when we returned from dinner the temp would have been 40, Marion expired BRIEFLY on ...
Konya
... we quickly discovered that streets are very poorly marked in Konya! (We later realized that this seems to be true in most of Turkey.) Many intersections have no street signs, and many of the rest only name one of the streets. The 'point of interest' ...
Whırlıng Dervıshes and the fırst Town
Here ın Konya ıs where Rumı started the mystıcal Sufi tradıtıon of the Whirling Dervishes. The cıty ıs hot at 90+ degrees. Tonıght we wıll see the Ceremony of the Dervıshes whıle they spın to commune wıth god. Also just outside the city ...
The whirling dervish dancers in the real
... a lot of sights, and had a great lunch of soup, salad, and bread. There is a plethora of healthy food that they serve in Turkey; it's from all of those greenhouses. A note here: I noticed immediately the lack of corn and soy fields that are so ...
