Hotel El Ruha
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King of the mountain
After a day spent lying around in a beautiful hotel room, banking some shut-eye and beating a dodgy wireless connection into submission, my sleep account is once more overdrawn. A 3am collection from the hotel (which for fellas means getting up at 2:55am and for ladies at 2:05am) and then go go go all day. Phew. No wonder my eyeballs feel like they …
The beautiful, historical city of Urfa
... Turkish”. Then they asked me, “Arapça?” (Arabic)? Then I said “Shuey Shuey” meaning I speak a little. After finding out I was neither Turkish, Arab, nor Kurdish, they invited me to a game of backgammon, taught me how to play a little, asked me questions about my marital status, asked me my job, my salary, if I liked Urfa, and a whole host of other questions before I told them I had to leave. By the way, this is not the first time such ...
I want to be like village people
... Shangri-la.
What amazes me most though is the open heartedness of Pero and Halil. They have constant strangers in their house yet I felt they gave me all that they could - of food, hospitality and emotion. They didn't hold anything back. I'd been there for only a day and half and I felt pretty emotional when I left but thankfully managed to hold it together. Another day and I probably wouldn't have been able to.
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Syria border crossing back to the central market
As long as we were in the neighborhood, on our way back to Urfa, we took a short (18 km) side trip to the Syrian border. Over a hundred trucks were lined up to cross the border, most of them were carrying bags of cement, which is exported to Syria, since they have no cement factories. We bypassed them and stopped before the first checkpoint. We talked with some of the people who were waiting to ...
A Neolithic Mound & the Land of Abraham
... lawyer & starts his studies next year. A totally delightful encounter. Everywhere I had walked the people had been curious, lively,very friendly. A great town. But, I knew I'd be too tired to return later.
Dinner by the hotel pool (good food, elegant setting) seemed somewhat sterile after the life on the streets. Back in my room writing at 9.30 I wondered if I had made the right decision - should I have forgotten about my journal + sleep & returned to Edessa ...
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TravelPod Member ReviewsHotel El Ruha Sanliurfa
“Spacious”
Reviewed Jun 15, 2012
I made the rest of my tour group jealous when our tour guide showed us the hotel I'd be staying in - they had all checked in somewhere else in town before lunch. Big rooms, a bellboy, lovely bathroom. Old fashioned and somewhat decadent. Room has the slight afterglow off smokers but it wasn't too strong. Hamam downstairs that looks lovely.
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