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Euphrates River Valley sites
... the color picture on the websites, so we have a souvenir of our adventure. We did a lot of sightseeing today, some from the bus and sometimes we could get out and walk to see things such as an ancient Roman bridge, the Ataturk Dam along the Euphrates River, beautiful mountain scenery, goat herds, an ancient castle in the mountains, and small mountain villages. Because of the rain and snow, all the restaurants around the Mt. Nemrut ...
Tuerkısche Kueche
... 305;st es extrem schade, dass ıch alleın reıse. Denn normalerweıse bestellt eıne Famılıe jeweıls mehrere Mezes und dann koennen alle von allen probıeren. Das ıst fuer mıch leıder nıcht moeglıch, so kann ıch jeweıls hoechstens eınen bestellen. Zusaetzlıch zu den Mezes hat hıer jedes Restaurants auch jeweıls super Suppen bereıt.
Beı den Hauptspeısen ...
A low point of the trip
... the street. It got to the stage where people were literally stopping their work to look at us, and pass comments between themselves. I began to get rather paranoid, as it seemed that they were looking at our legs. We both had shorts on, and I was starting to this that this might be one of those rather conservative areas we had read about, though on examination of the guidebook there was no mention of not wearing shorts in Gaziantep.
Eventually we found ...
Thinking of Gazientep?.....Don't
... building and the lady who we chatted with tried to turn us on to several unimpressive museums without success. She told us that the mosaic museum we came to see is under construction and closed (disappointed but not surprised), there are no live whirling dervish performances only a small museum of their culture (of course), and the castle / fortress in the centre of the city was THE major tourist attraction. *sigh* She loaded us up ...
Gaziantep, in the Sea of Baklava (Journal)
... of Gazientep, which is getting into the Kurdish area of SouthEast Turkey, near the Syrian border. It's a lively city, and very old, with the hippest young population in this half of the country. Known for its pistachio baklava and generally for its fabulous array of food purveyors, it's a paradise for foodies. Just arriving from the agrarian time-warp of Krafga, there is much to see in Gaziantep; museums, castles, mosques, restaurants, nightlife. Of those activities, ...