Dedeman Antakya

... Tula', a fr&#305;end of h&#305;s, a student at the local un&#305;vers&#305;ty and he's go&#305;ng to teach her Engl&#305;sh. She was wear&#305;ng headdress but what stood out was that there was a pack of c&#305;garretes &#305;n front. Ive never seen a g&#305;rl smoke &#305;n Turkey t&#305;ll now. She also looked too demure to smoke. <br><br>Anyway after a relax&#305;ng &#305;n the park w&#305;th the 2 of them, Isma&#305;l helped me to get the bus for the Otogar ...

... I help you spend your money?" will remain one of the greatest questions we have been asked.<br><br>5) The Call to Prayer. The first time you hear it you tingle as they echo around the town, city or even the smallest village. At night time it is so atmospheric. <br><br>6) The Ruins. Even Steve was impressed by some of them. Italy eat your heart out, Turkey's are far more impressive!!!<br><br>7) Backgammon, aka Tavla. Wherever you walk you hear the ...

Well I fýnally got ýnto Turkey! I am presently at a bus statýon waýtýng to take an overnýght bus to Cappadocýa to see Groemer and the apperently very nýce landscape. I arrýved ýnto Turkey wýthout to much fuss although the bus was a být of a joke. The Turkýsh guys runnýng the bus seemed to be fussýng all the týme about some goods they were clearly tryýng to take over the border ýnto Turkey. The border crossýngs at both sýdes were a být of a joke but ...

... to drink the water and be cured of their sicknesses. We opted to just touch the water with our fingers. We then went out to find the path up the hill out back. There is a head carved in the mountain stone. Not knowing the way we followed people walking up the hill to the left, which took us through muck and sheep droppings (smelly, yuck!). Half way up the hill we find out we are going the wrong way and now have to find our way down to the muck again. It was quite ...

... ben franchement, c'est les seuls sympas, pas cher et prore, j'ai même eu une chambre double pour le prix simple ..De jour, il s'avère que la ville est plus sympa, souk animé, ça a son charme, et gens plutôt acceuillants, doit pas y avoir trop de touristes quand même .. Le musée est trés interressant, belles mosaiques, les plus belles de mon voyage..

... visas beforehand in the belief that despite suggestions to the contrary, it would always be possible to get them at the various borders and would probably be cheaper this way. This however was our first attempt so we were unsure what to expect. Luckily for us, the coach couldn't leave for Aleppo until everyone had passed through both sets of customs, so we were assigned an escort with the task of railroading us through the overly complicated ...

... to assume there are some erotic works. Why else? (Turkish internet is censored. But there are ways around it. Ask your nearest high school or college student). <br><br>His other site --artmajeur.com/varoltopac--has pictures. The last I looked, two of the pictures there were censored.<br><br>After the meal we walked up into the old part of town, to an old Ottoman home that has been nicely converted into a tea house. There is an inner open-air court yard and a couple of side indoor ...

... settle, living by myself in Bursa. In&#351;alla). Then we talked further until the bus left. It's rather humbling, treatment like this (See previous entry).<br><br>Shortly out of Ni&#287;de I got a call on my cell phone from a fellow in Antakya. I am a member of a social network of travellers (sort of like Facebook). The essential idea is that one can "couchsurf" with like-minded members who will take you into their residence and essentially give you free lodging--along with ...

I crossed over into Turkey today... it's starting off really great. It's really quite green here... there continues to be more and more life to the landscape as I make my way north. There are some really nice looking smallish mountains here that I'd like to climb already! I'm in Antakya, which doesn't seem to get all that much praise in the guidebook, but I quite like it... there's the mountain backdrop with some houses ...

... a ****** day than inside a museum. The Antakya museum is meant to house one of the world's finest collection of mosaics, so I was really looking forward to it. <br> <br>The mosaics were very impressive indeed and a good way to spend a couple of hours until the rain cleared. Some of them were nearly 100% intact apart from a small patch here and there and the detail in some of them was quite extraordinary, I really hope my photos do them justice. After the museum the ...