Adana Hotels - Reviews and Rates

... getting out of the train and taking a bus to the border with Syria, and over the border to Aleppo...

Very long bus ride from Antalya where my heart murmured and left arm went numb on the overnight trip. Checked myself into a hospital where the doctor says 'why are you in Adana?' My sentiments exactly. Its a big grey dull city. Nothing more.

The food in the Lebanon and Syria has been exceptional. Just like to share ... (non-foodies feel free to skip this one) Breakfast is simple and reasonably unvarying. The freshest sliced tomatoes and cucumber, olives, hard boiled eggs, labneh (a thick yoghurt cheese so mild it's almost clotted cream) and warmed khoobz Arabi (bread) spread with a ...

[continued from last entry] ... the sleep that I got on the bus couldn't be considered more than a slight doze, because the sun comes up so early in this part of Turkey. The time zone that I'm in starts in Greece and continues all the way to the Iranian border. My bus neared the eastern city of Adana, and the sun came up at an ungodly hour. Some...

Today started with Kevin Garrett making a major rug purchase, me getting organized with a picnic and finalizing our prep for the long car trip. Our first stop was the Yalin Kalesi, just east of Adana. After a mild hike up the hill, we were rewarded with one of those fairy tale castle ruins. Grass growing through cracks, trees overgrown throughou...