Sanliurfa Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Today is another exciting and action packed day full of sights, smells, tastes and really chatting with locals. Sabahattin knows so many people there are lots of opportunities to take tea with them, look at their shop, animals, houses, if you wish - really there has been no pressure to buy or see anything on this trip. Importantly Sabahattin has...

I woke up at 7 am but stayed in bed until 9 so I could watch ,ore music videos on MTV. AT 10, I finally got my lazy ass out of bed. After I checked out and stored my backpack in the hotel\s storage room, I took a bus into the old town. I really wasn't in the mood to do any sightseeing but I forced myself to go. I just felt a little burned out. I...

We have some catchıng up to do... Two weeks have passed sınce we last spoke and ın that tıme ıt feels as ıf we have seen almost the entırety of Turkıye. Leavıng our Iranıan frıends behınd (for now, at least) we made our way South - and a lıttle bıt West - before headıng E...

Day 24 of Trip: 1. Sunrise Hike to Ruins of Antiochus Temple (Summit of Nemrut Dagi) 2. Arsemia Ruins 3. Ataturk Dam (Largest Dam in Middle East) 4. Harran Bee Hive Village Houses 5. Cave of Abraham (Birthplace) 6. Holy Carp Pond

Our bus to Antakya, Turkey, leaves at the anti-social time of 4.30am, perhaps to avoid traffic at the border. Each time we cross a border here in the Middle East, the new country looks very different from the last. Maybe I was just ignorant about the region in assuming that Jordan and Syria would appear fairly similar and that Syria, in turn, wo...

Wow... here I am in the east of Turkey were the majority of the people are ethnically Kurdish. The general area was home of a large separatist movement through out the and 90s tourism only reopened a few years ago. Quite repeated from the coastline and resorts of the west there is a distinct air of a part of the world as yet uncorrupted by the o...

Wýth some what more recent history Urfa (sanliurfa) was a nice place to end the tour early (no poýnt in going back to Goreme just to MTN bike) and after two days of directing our 'guide' from the Lonely Planet map and telling HIM the hýstorical significance of things (christ he was a joke, donit think I'll be reckomending his tours to anybody!) ...