Travel Blog Photos from Sanliurfa (453)
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... of Swords Valley. After walking back to town I stopped at Yama Travel and signed up for a 3-day trip to Eastern Turkey to see Mt. Nemrut and Sanliurfa. It was an expensive package (US$125), but it was all-inclusive and covered a lot of ground, and it ...
... cost $5 in Syria costs $25 here - even with a phoney student discount. Our first stop is Sanliurfa, a recommendation from our fellow Jordan travellers Hamish and George. The town's main tourist attraction is nearby Mount Nemrut, atop ...
Greetings from Urfa and our last major stop in Turkey (we think). Confusingly Urfa is also known as Sanliurfa which means apparently 'Glorious Urfa'. And again it's also known as the Prophets City. It's one of Turkey's main pilgrimage towns as legend ...
... years ago, the patriarch of faiths, Abraham, was born in the town of Ur Kasdim. To most people this place is Sanliurfa. A cave--Abraham's birthplace--in the center of the city, next to the Mosque of Abraham, was busy with pilgrims entering--men on one ...
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Your Opinions on Turkey
Posted on Nov 13, 2008, 13:46:55
... with. The tour I was on went down the west coast of Turkey until Antalya, then inland to Cappadocia, and from there to Sanliurfa, via Mt. Nemrut. I had heard a lot about the sight in Turkey, there were "wonderful" but I just found them...well ...
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Your Opinions on Turkey
Posted on Dec 2, 2007, 14:28:14
... to the gorgeous beaches in the south and the bizarrely stunning rock formations of Cappadoccia. I didnt get to the east (apart from Sanliurfa) but the west and centre certainly had a lot to offer. To balance all this positivity, here are a couple of ...
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Newbie: Istanbul to Cairo
Posted on Dec 2, 2007, 14:20:43
... Dana, up to the and Madaba and through to Amman. From there we crossed the border to Syria, heading to , and . In Turkey we visited , , , Patara, and . So, you could just do all that but in reverse. The route is not all that difficult, it ...
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