Country Info
- Ankara
- Capital
- Turkish Lira (TRL)
- Currency
- 66,493,970
- Population
- TR
- Country Code
Ankara Slideshow
Ankara
Travel Blogs from Ankara, Turkey
Ankara or that city we stayed in to get Kazak visa
... day and finally were granted our visas. Feeling vindicated, we treated ourselves to a 30 hour train ride to Kars in Eastern Turkey. We met an interesting (and really creepy) Turk named Alp on the train which made for an exciting trip as we constantly ...
Ankara
... em volta, viu muito sangue no chão e o reflexo da lua crescente e uma estrela no sangue. Daí a Bandeira. Em Ankara fomos ao Museu Anadolu (que me desculpem os turcos, o sobrenome do museu é impronunciavel e insoletravel...... Neste museu existem ...
Yet another capital city...
... the stuff at my mom's place, then off to shopping for military stuff, and I got to use the Ankaray, the light rail system in Ankara. Not too bad, but could use air conditioning. Ate some Iskender on a run, and then my sister took me out for ...
Roman Ruins & Red Lights
... the different exhibits. Throughout my trip I have seen many ancient ruins and remains, such as the fortresses along the Great Wall in China, but now I was starting to see Roman ruins in Ankara. This marked the start of the change from Asia to ...
Ankara... and awesome Turkish Desert
... , I will not have facebook and possibly even email access in Iran so here's hoping this is accessible there. Anyhow! Am in Ankara, Turkey right now. Got here yesterday and after weaseling our way through the low-end district of the city (The Ulus Region), ...
Touring Turkey's Capital
... is buried there along with the second president. AtaTURK is where the country’s name originated. He changed modernized Turkey by changing their alphabet among many other forms. At the mausoleum, there were guards from the Army, Air ...
The day we found the silver!
... sale. If I thought shopping for the first time in Australia was hard because I didn't recognize packaging, I should have tried shopping in Turkey where I can't read the damn packaging!! The fruit and veg were very sad and there was no meat but we got a ...
Singing for our supper
... a plan to take us to the carpet shop of his cousin or someone - thus reinforcing our perception, as I told him, that EVERYONE in Turkey has a relative who owns a carpet shop. (Actually G tells me it wasn't a cousin, just a friend - probably someone from ...
Ankara
We left Istanbul at 10:30pm via train arriving Ankara around 8:30am. Arlene and I shared a cabin. I got the upper bunk which seemed to sway with each turn the trian made and I also woke up at each stop whıch seemed like every hour. Obviously I did not ...
Settling into Ankara
... in Antalya Nesli needed to get back to work and I need to get get settled in at Bilkent University. The flight from Antalya to Ankara was fun because the original takeoff had to be aborted due to a "dog on the runway." For any of you that have ever ...
2nd Back in Ankara
Same as the last Back in Ankara entry. I'm back here working in my classes for the next few days, until my next trip this weekend to Hatay! I'm flying there Friday, be back Monday morning... I stay on the move and I love it. Not much to report from here ...
Medıterranean
Our travels have taken us from Cappadocıa through Konya to Egrıdır on the southern tıp of the beautıful lake. At Konya we vısıted the mausoleum of Mevlana where the famous whırlıng dervıshes sect was founded. We had prevıously seen a ...
Feb 02, 2012
Burnin up Choo Choo
... call Kalo (my friend) to call his brother. Finally, I got in touch with Kalo and found out there are two train stations in Ankara, Mehmet (the brother) was at the wrong one. He came to right one and couldn’t find us, which is weird since there were ...
A day in Ankara
The Mostar Hotel was well sited for most of the old town of Ankara. I didn't have much of a plan for the day but bumped into the Ethnographic museum and Art gallery a stone's throw from my hotel. They, together had a commanding view over the rest of the ...
The Town that MKA Built
... , this is a setting to fully honour the Father of the Republic. Extensive museums on MKA and the founding of the new Turkey. Long orientation walk across town ending at the excellent Ethnography Museum, Not a huge collection but HQ: period clothes, ...
Turkish Gong Show
... garden at Alladin's hill - amazing! I drove back today (230 km), my first experience driving in Turkey. I'm glad it wasn't Istanbul! So, one more day in Ankara and then on Tuesday I'm going to head down to Cappodocia and then back to Ankara and then ...
Lake Egidir and Cappadoccia
From Olympos we travelled north to Lake Egidir (a military town). This was not a very touristy town and had a huge lake in the centre. The lake is 1000m above sea level and fresh water, and our hostel had no water for the night...... The towns main ...
The Call to Prayer
i expected to find many unexpected things on my first visit to a Muslum country. After being here several days and reflecting on those differences, i would have to say that the most prominant difference is the ''Call to Prayer.'' Five times a day, every ...
The simple things in life
Hopped onto a bus today to Sile (pronounced like Chile but 'Sh') to get away from the harrassments and propositions of the Turkish men in Istanbul, it was getting to be too much for me. It's a little fishing town/village off the coast of the Black Sea. ...
On the road to Ankara
So I decided not to go to Istanbul and to explore Turkey’s capital, Ankara. After all, it was only a mere 5 hour bus ride from Goreme. Those 5 hours just flew by!!! Ankara is quite modern and I find my way around town quite easily. The only drawback ...