Hotel El Ruha Sanliurfa
BalIklIgol YanI Lekeler Cad. Sanliurfa, Sanliurfa, Turkey
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The Black and the Dry in Turkey
... to hike up to the top with all that stone to build these monuments. Amazing! Even more impressive was the fact that the tomb on the peak of the mountain is covered 50 metres high with thousands of tonnes of stones through man power. We celebrated our achievement and the excitement of Mt Nemrut with a small drink of gin and scotch, breaking our alcohol drought, for now.
Reaching the interesting city of Urfa, the black and the dry ...
Göbleki Tepe, Sanliurfa, Harran, Gaziantep
... wat beter en ik hoop voor mij stilaan hetzelfde.
Sanliurfa, die Geburtsstadt, Abraham's (siehe auch Sanliurfa und Abraham, 25 juli)
In der Nähe von Sanliurfa haben wir in Göbleki Tepe die älteste Kultstätte der Menscheit besucht (10000 J v chr), erst in 1995 entdeckt.
Südlich von Sanliurfa liegt das Dorf Harran, bestehend aus bienenkorbähnliche Lehmhäuser, ähnlich die Süd-Italienische "Trulli"-Wohnungen, ein ...
A Neolithic Mound & the Land of Abraham
... Crusaders won a famous victory nearby; the place was sacked by the Mongols in C13. Arabs were settled here by the Ottomans. Today it is as if history has passed by......
The beehive mud houses are very effective Vs the heat. We visited the "museum" houses (about 200 years old), had cay and chatted to the locals. The women are tatooed bedouin style; traditional dress is also Bedu.
This place has an ecclectic religious history - it was the chief home of the ...
Rollercoaster of fun
Hallo allemaal,
Ja we weten het; de updates komen maar zeer sporadisch door maar dat komt doordat we er gewoon geen tijd voor hebben. Meestal zijn we 's avonds ofwel te moe, ofwel aan het feesten ofwel moeten we er heel vroeg uit voor een of andere zonsopgang mee te maken.
Bon.... Turkije.... Land van contrasten.... Het westen meer een aards paradijs voor zonnekloppers MAAR met prachtige sites uit de oudheid, 'heaps' leuke activiteiten en een geweldig landschap...
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Another Wow day!
It has been a long but wonderful day. We left the hotel at 3am to get up to Nemrut by sunrise. It is up in the mountains at 8000 ft elevation. It was where a pre-Roman King had giant statues of himself and the gods carved into the hillside. His tomb is under the man made peak. Earthquakes toppled the heads from the bodies. The most impressive time to visit is at sunrise since the statues face ...



