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- Ankara
- Capital
- Turkish Lira (TRL)
- Currency
- 66,493,970
- Population
- TR
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Ankara Slideshow
Ankara
Travel Blogs from Ankara, Turkey
Ankara
... of Turkey. A lot of young people were waving flags in what (according to Metin, our guide) appeared to be a demonstration against Turkey's current anti-secular governing majority. One of our tour-mates said they'd heard that it was actually just a normal ...
ODTU for a few days
Back to ODTU for a few days before my next adventure. Bayram holiday is coming up very quickly. I leave Thursday afternoon with some friends for a ten day holiday, where we'll travel along the Mediterranean. We're not sure where exactly yet, but we'll ...
Etapa de Turquia
Taste of a little bit of everything! Dale, Emma and I loved our time in Ankara. We spent six weeks vising relatives and friends. Emma loved to be the center of attantion! She wants to go back to Turkey ...
Ankara and Beypazari
... a cup of tea so went to investigate the dining car and in the end G had a Turkish breakfast anyway. The train arrived in Ankara station quite suddenly - one minute you are in the country and the next you're pulling into the station. We had a little ...
The capital of Turkey!
Marta and I took the bus from Istanbul to Ankara. Why, I am not sure, except that the museum here is supposed to be outstanding. No other tourists come here, and as a result, there are no hostels, and it would be expensive with just one ...
a new set of wheels
Well navigated. So, a few hours after leaving the bikes, we took a minibus to Ankara. Our travel companions were a collection of people who'd been similarly disorganised, and not thought to reserve a coach seat in advance for the busiest day of ...
Ankara
... a dry riverbed. Over another mountain range and passed into a surreal area that seems to make up a lot of the interior of Turkey. The mountains look like limestone or marble, but the soil is bright red in some places. Over vast tracts of ...
Completing the Circle
... vendors all the way to the East Tower. Worth the aggravation - 360 deg commanding views of modern & ancient Ankara. Needed to escape the tourist scrum so sought out some paths less travelled - wandered the crumbling, non-touristy quarter of the ...
Happy Thanksgiving
What potentially could have been one of the saddest days for all of us CIEE American students here in Ankara (Thanksgiving) turned into one of the best days we have had so far! Spending three straight months with the same small group of people, creates a ...
And it begins
... for a bus station but never found it. Decided on taxis instead. Now we have arrived at the Middle Eastern Technical University in Ankara. We are in a guest house, on a huge hill with a great view. But this house is insanely far from anything cool. ...
Ankara
... military figure in WWI, and is famous for many economic, political, and cultural reforms; he claims sole credit for turning Turkey into a secular, democratic state, although critics claim he was more of a dictator. In his honor, there are lots of weird ...
can we get our Vısas!!!
Hello from Ankara!! We have dıverted here ın a hope to pıck up our Pakıstan Vısas, we took a trıp to the embassy thıs monrıng but were turned away pretty quıck, so ıt looks lıke a no for now, we ...
First days at ODTU
... the same school with the Middle East's best of the best... how dumb do I feel. ODTU is the one of the largest campuses in Turkey, the largest university campus I have ever stepped foot on... yes even larger than VT. Of course my classes are all in the ...
Work to do in Ankara
... go with my dress. We are having a family style Thanksgiving dinner with friends, and we're dressing up... I brought a dress to Turkey but didn't bring shoes...genious Molly! However, I had no luck finding any since my feet are so little and Turkish women ...
In the middle of central anatolia lies an ...
In the middle of Central Anatolia lies an area called Cappadocia. It is one of Turkey's main tourist destinations because of its' incredibly funky landscape. Eons ago (with a little error, about 10 million years ago I've been told), a few surrounding ...
Tombs, Tablets and Turkish Delights
... Kayseri!! Thats where the HITTITES settled!!". Kayseri?, I thought, isn't that some sort of Indian dessert...? Climbing towards Ankara Citadel Feeling guilty about the Nutella, I decided to walk through the street bazaars leading up to the 3000 ...
Ankara Citadel
... no more than 5 years old. There are even some children trained to sit at the top of the castle and point out areas of Ankara in various languages, spanish, english, chinese, arabic, french, etc... Of course though, if you ask the children a question about ...
Turkish Halloween or Witch Bayram
... it was HAlloween at home. We all saw pictures of our friends online dressed up, eating candy, having a lot of fun, and well, in Turkey they do none of that. Even though we wanted to do something fun, we did nothing much, which ended up ok. We each bought ...
Stop over only.
Arrıved ın thıs capıtal of Turkey after a very pleasant overnıght trıp on the traın. I was actually able to sleep - thanks to gravol and earplugs. Thıs ıs a huge cıty of 5 ...
Turkısh delıght
yes ım sorry you stıll have to suffer these horrıble "ı" letters. okay, sınce ı left ıstanbul ı have done lots and lots of thıngs. as you know, ım doıng a hop on hop off tour. a group of us from NZ, OZ and Canada have banded together and ...
Ok little addition to the details from ...
OK, little addition to the details from yesterday....Turkey has now had the pleasure of the three of us....in a VERY real way. Last night was the first night that we've had to relax and we hit a bar called 'Flintstones', rock village...get it...yeah, ...
Ankara, Ankara, Ankara
... took a bus to Safranbolu (a bit like Saffron Walden for the Clavering/Baldock contingent) a beautiful town in the mountains North of Ankara. The place is made up of well preserved, tımber framed Ottoman houses and surrounded by the most British ...
Istanbul ıs ındescrıbable sort of a poor ...
Istanbul ıs ındescrıbable. Sort of a poor Tıjuana wıth hıgh rıses, nıce people, low prıces, and clean. Hearıng prayers from the mosques on loudspeakers all through the cıty ıs chıllıng. Went to Hagıa Sophıa whıch was buılt ın the ...
Mehmet I and Alexander the Great
... retained the architecture of the early Ottoman era (sort of half timbered English Tudor). After lunch we then started our trip to Ankara – about five hours away. On the way we stopped at Gordion to see the some ancient burial mounds, one of which ...
From Helsinki to Ankara
... of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who if you remember, was the only handsome male in the Form Four Sejarah book, founded Turkey as a secular state. That secularism, some argue, is part of what defines Turkish national identity, and thus, should never be ...
Our first week
... 2 of the many mosques and 2 palaces, had a cruise on the Bosphorous, visited the Spice Bazaar. We travelled to Ankara, visiting Ataturk's mausaleum and the Anatolion ancient civilisations museum, spending 1 night in this (capital) city. We continued to ...