Bogazkale, Turkey

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... one of the most powerful ancient kingdoms... a kingdom that originally stretched throughout the Anatolian Plateau of modern day Turkey... expanding the empire into the Babylonian lands of Mesopatamia... ... in addition to fighting off the Egyptians from ...

We spent two nights in the very small village of Bogazkale in order to visit Hattusha - the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire around 2300 BC.  It was a great stop, not only for the ancient building ...

... Japanese woman who is the only other guest at the Baykal Hotel - she sat and stolidly ate her dinner with the Lonely Planet Turkey propped in front of her, poor thing - unfortunately she came down to dinner just as we were finishing ours or we'd have ...