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These roads weren't made for driving . . .
... conservative than all the other cities we’ve been to. In other places, maybe 1/3 of women are wearing head scarves. Here it’s closer to 80%. This is also the home of the creator of the whirling dervishes. We went to his museum and mausoleum this afternoon. I’m not going to lie, it wasn’t the most exciting visit of this trip so far. Konya is a big city, over 1 million people. I like the cute country ...
Wheeling our Way to Whirling Dervishes
... Sema and many of our different hotel proprietors were hazy on the details, so we landed at the Cultural Center a couple hours before it was actually set to begin. The Center is quite close by to a fancy Hilton Garden Inn, so what originated as a bathroom break turned into having a couple beers in the garden courtyard before we returned at 9pm to see the Dervishes in their worship service.
We witnessed ...
Konya
... to Konya we saw a vast amount of new industrial sites and of course because of the population explosion a lot of new apartment blocks and is the most modern city in Turkey. Turkey seems to be surviving the economic downturn very well and the Government is doing everything it can to keep the people happy so that they will give them their votes. All the old parts of the city here have ...
Derwısche
... Ordens (Mevlana, auch Rumı genannt) begraben. Seıne Grabstaette ıst heute eın Museum und eın wıchtıger Pılgerort fuer tuerkısche Muslıme.
Dıe Stadt gefıel mır ansonsten sehr gut. Alles ıst zıemlıch neu und schoen gemacht. So gıbt es eınıge Orte zum Verweılen und eınıge gruene Flecken. Zudem ıst es, wıe dıe meısten Staedte ...
From bikinis to hijabs
... a mini-mart for $10 and stretch it to at least 2 nights, now who’s a smart little cookie?
Joke from the tour guide: do you know how they came up with the name Canada for the country? They put all the letters of the alphabet into a hat and a guy pulled out the letters one by one. He pronounced: “C, eh?”, “N, eh?” and then “D, eh?”. That is how the name came about, it had nothing to do with the native’s name for the ...