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Konya Slideshow
Konya
Travel Blogs from Konya, Turkey
Konya
... vanquished the native population before founding the city. Konya has a reputation of being one of the more religiously conservative metropolitan centers in Turkey. It was once known as the "citadel of Islam", and it is still more devout than other ...
Entering Turkey
... can find lots and lots of beautiful things to honour a man who preaches simplicity. His texts are almost Buddhist. What amazed me about Konya and in fact about the whole region up till now, is that we haven't succeeded in finding a decent road map. ...
Pottery, Caravansary, and More Sufis
... day, Seljuk Turk Empire, realized the value of trade to their economy so established a network of over 100 Caravansaries across Turkey to enable travelling caravans to have safe place to stay the night and buy food for themselves and their animals. There ...
Heading down to the coast
... and the best Turkey has to offer. In Aspendos we visit the beautiful, huge and well preserved amphitheater, the largest one in Turkey and still used during the summer for the art and music festival, only last night they had the operatic production of ...
Episode 32
... . Not so much further on we came to the Turkish border and passed out of Greece no problem at all. Getting into Turkey involved a bit of work however and quite a lot of waiting as the daylight faded. Had to get insurance for the car and ...
on the road again
... . The main dome of the temple is completely covered in blue tiles. It is really beautiful. We had lunch in Konya at a very non touristy restaurant. It was another adventure. I ordered one of the dishes special to the town, ...
Where's my scarf?
Konya. We are overnıghtıng ın one of the most cons ervatıve areas of Turkey. Thıs ıs the fırst place our guıde told us the women 'May' want to cover theır haır. Ross and I ...
in the capital of seleucid empire
konya is wonderful! even if you don't know about muslim art there are lots of styles and some very rare design and statue of animated people ( usually forbidden for muslim artists ...
later
... Istanbul which we had heard was pretty touristy anyway. So about 4 weeks later we're heading east and read about Konya, reputedly Turkey's most conservative and religious city but also spiritual home to Sufism and the whirling dervishes. We take a bus ...
on quitte la Cappadoce plus vite que prévu
... étable à biques !!! on finit la ballade au petit matin et vu notre fatigue, et la difficulté pour aller à Guzelyurt (qui est à seulement 20 kms), on enchaîne 2 bus qui nous emmènent jusqu'à Konya ... encore un plan qui se déroule comme prévu ...
Derwısche
... Besonders zwıschen 17 und 20 Uhr fuellt sıch jeweıls dıe Innenstadt mıt den Studıs. Zudem hat Konya eınen grossen, sehr beschaeftıgten Basaar. Am 6. November war eıner der wıchtıgsten ...
Mevlana
Seven Advices of Mevlana In generosity and helping others be like a river. In compassion and grace be like the sun. In concealing others' faults be like the night. In anger and fury be like the dead. In modesty and humility be like the earth. ...
Konya - Sacred and Mundane
... level, I tried the local firin kebab (baked in a stone oven), plus shalgam, the puckery drink of carrot & radish juice with vinegar. My favorite food in Turkey, though, was sour cherry jam and sour cherry juice (both sweet and yummy). ...
High pollution Konya
i am trying to play catchup - so am adding entries later than i was there - will fill in ...