Hotel Ab-i Hayat Trabzon

... reformátora). Turkům asi nepřipadá směšná taneční show, kde mají mladí kluci před obličejem přichycené foto Atatürkova obličeje gumičkou. Nám připadá a velmi. Ovšem zároveň jsme zírali, že na hudebním kanále mohla jet jakási parodie na uctívání zakladatele moderního Turecka. Parta mladých zpěváků jak ze Superstar tam zpívala (asi ...

... and lots of the other dr&#305;vers were shout&#305;ng at h&#305;m. So I took the next one &#305;nstead. The dr&#305;ver never heard of the road where my hotel &#305;s but luck&#305;ly he knows the hotel. It costs 16TL, at least cheaper than my last meal. <br><br>I checked &#305;n, got myself arranged for transport to Sumela Monastry, went surf&#305;ng at a nearby &#305;nternet cafe (pretty cheap, 0.75 per half hour) and had some mutton-l&#305;ke th ...

... want to take additional risks and we follwo the main road that is very well built and leads finally over a pass of 2100m into the valley towards Trabzon. We see so much snow still on the road and beside the road that we are happy to have followed the recommendations!<br><br>In Trabzon we get asked by a local biker the ususal Merhaba, where are you from etc. He wants to know where we want to go and says follow me. He pilots us through this busy city and ...

... and wonder at the beautiful paintings. Monastery abandoned in 1922. Go early am or at 4pm when the crowds are less. Trout dinner at the restaurant down the hill - very good and fresh.<br><br>Arrive in Trabzon 7pm, now at the Black Sea. Time for EFES beers and a chill out as off to Istanbul for 2 days tomorrow.

Well hello everybody! Firstly sorry about the letter 'eye' all through th&#305;s entry. I blame the keyboard. I'm in Trabzon , Turkey now. I've come a long way sýnce my last entry ýn Greece, but basýcally... It was a nýce rýde all the way to the Turkýsh border, apart from some horrendous roadkýll. The roadsýde seems to be rýddled wýth unwanted / wýld dogs whých fall by the waysýde every now and then and provýde snacks (I've wýtnessed ýt) for those that go on lývýng. I had no ...

... monastary at Sumela about 45 kms. ýnland up a scenýc mountaýn valley was our goal. The mýný bus pýcked us up at our hotel and took us to the destýnatýon ýn a natýonal park where pýne trees and a mountaýn stream made ýt feel lýke the rockýes. Anyhow I dýgress. The monastary clýngs to the sheer sýde of a clýff and dates back to 450 ad and was abandoned after WW1. Now a restored natýonal hýstorýc sýte. A strenuous hýke to get to the sýte made us ...

... since it is so amazing. On our way down the mountain we saw some cows in a pickup truck. One of the cows made çis. It was very immature of us to think it was as funny as we thought. But anyway, we continued our journey to a supposedly very touristy mountain area called Zigana. I think since it is not the right season and it is Ramazan, it really didn't look like anything different than what we had been driving through. It was definitely beautiful, though. To get there we ...

... believe I could forget such a thing. I'm newly married, I have no children yet, I just finished school officially and I am sitting around day after day listening to ladies I don't know or understand. We sat on the outside balcony of the food court at the mall we went to. I had a mocha. It actually looked like the picture they had displayed. Unfortunately it tasted like melted plastic. But it was nice to be around younger people. HA! I was sporting my two ...

We've survived our first two nights bush-camping! Most of yesterday was spent travelling from Cappadocia and Central Anatolia to the Black Sea coast and a town called Trabzon. We camped just outside the town after we'd climbed about 300 metres to the Sumela Monastery. It was built into the side of some extremely high cliffs above a swirling fast-flowing river by some Greek Orthodox monks. It's been ...

... are very good. Hopping out swearing under my breath I waited around. As I anticipated, soon enough someone came up offering me a ride there. From $40 one way in the minibus, I quickly got the deal to $30 return with 2 hours waiting time in a private car. I thought it was fair. Sumela is an old Greek Orthodox Monastery that was first constructed in the 9th century, and abandoned early last century when the Greeks got that axe from Turkey (metophorically ...