Otel Le Grand Adana

Yeni Otagar KarsIsI. T. Cemal Beriker BulvarI No: 395, Seyhan Adana, Turkish Mediterranean Coast, Turkey

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Karatepe, St Paul's Ghost & Across the Taurus

A travel blog entry by chagger1

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... we had a full morning's agenda to complete before we headed up into the mountains.
100 km E to the neo-Hittite site of Karatepe, crossing the river Ceyhan, thru fields of glowing sunflowers and then up into olive & conifer foothills. Here we found the delightful Karatepe - Aslantas open air Museum in a national park.. Great pine forest setting, on a hilltop by a lake. The site dates from C8 BC when the Hittites left Central Anatolia under pressure ...

Antioch Mosaics, Issos & Raki on the Roof

A travel blog entry by chagger1

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... just dusty fields + oranges + the broken skeleton of a Roman aqueduct crossing the famous stream. The plough still turns up pottery fragments from long ago. Nearby atop a hill, a Crusader castle in ruins (Toprakkale, I think).

Back on the highway we sped west across the rich agricultural plains of Cilicia: cornfieds, wheat, citrus, onions, spuds. Another castle ruin rose up (Snake castle - Byzantine/Crusader). Gum trees, oleander, ...

Two cigarettes each!

A travel blog entry by willnickmax

Well one thing we have learned on this trip is that the Turkish railway system is awful. Our train from Istanbul to Adana departed at 23:50, ten minutes before our interail tickets expired, it was scheduled to arrive at 18:30 the following day and did not get there till 21:00! 18 hours of constant fluorescent lighting, irritating tea boy and agonizingly slow progress, crawling across desolate Turkish ...

Turkey III

A travel blog entry by jimmymacfad

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... has ever wondered how it is that clothes can be bought so cheaply the
answer is there and in the sweatshops of the developing world.

I
remember being surprised to learn that after the abolition of slavery
in The U.S many former slaves chose to stay with their former owners,
however, seeing these little encampments it seems less perplexing;
sadly so many people are better off as a slave to a benevolent master
than being free in ...

Adana Kebab

A travel blog entry by mawakefi

... convenience store whose owner had erected a huge barbecue and a few plastic tables on the sidewalk outside the store. The tables were occupied so we walked up with the intent to order some food takeaway. But as we approached the owner first looked shocked, then pleasantly surprised, then delighted - he clearly hadn't had much contact with English-speaking tourists and was eager to give us a great experience.

The owner ran over to a table where one of his friends ...

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