http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Middle East , Turkey , Southeastern Anatolia en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:49:41 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:49:41 BST The heat in Hasankeyf was a fierce test of our stamina. Thankfully we both passed but my camera failed miserably and now only takes pictures with horizontal stripes. Though even with a frustrating setback like that it's hard to complain about much of anything right now. We have after all lately been spending most of our time in paradise...Our next stop was unforgettable Savur. We rolled http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/Mardin/blog-301920.html Saban is 22 years old and just recently graduated with an English degree from a university in Tokat Turkey. Outgoing friendly and eager to practice his English a bit we bumped into this remarkable young lad in the spotless new bus station which really felt more like an airport in Keyseri. He approached us as we finalized our ticket asking if we would like to hang out together to kill the 5 http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/Urfa/blog-291163.html Spring Break was phenomenal. So much so that I have no idea what all we actually did. There were about 15 of us from a variety of countries. We left Istanbul in a rented tour bus on Saturday the 26th arriving in Ankara that evening for a huge dinner at the parentrsquos apartment of one of the exchange commission members. The apartment was part of a complex a little removed from the city a http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/Urfa/blog-275112.html This trip to the south east of Turkey was made in the summer of 2007 from June 22 until June 24. I travelled with my girlfriend Adina and Micky from Rumania and Ivan fom Colombia. There are many stories to say about this aventurous trip and I will try to be as specific as possible. The first city to visit was Gaziantep where was located the AIESEC LC that was organizing this tour. What can I say a http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/Gaziantep/blog-251252.html I went on another weekend trip here while I was in Turkey. http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/Gaziantep/blog-236756.html Dogubayazit giace sperduta in mezzo alle montagne ma si tratta comunque di una citta' vera e propria con le sue banche i negozi i ristoranti e... decine di rivendite di alcoliciQuesto e' un punto di pasaggio quasi obbligato pr chi viaggia verso l'Iran per cui il solo pensiero di dover rimanere a secco per un mese o forse piu' spinge il consumo di alcool a http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/blog-191902.html Before starting about day 4 I forgot to add in the previous entry that we went to a small restaurant in Mardin the capital of Kurdish area. The people there were extremely gentle and kind to us the music was a blast and the food A LOT hehehehehe I danced a lot I didn't eat so much but again I danced like crazy with all the girls belly dancers we could be Early in the morning we left http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/Mardin/blog-184224.html Day 3 That night we could hardly sleep in some dormitories by the way in Turkey girls and boys don't share the dormitory they are 2 separate buildings sometimes in different areas of a city for 2 hours personally I only took a bath and got ready to leave. We had to start our journey to Mount Nemrut at 1.30 am because of the long distance problem. We arrived there at about 4 am and http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/blog-184192.html MesopotamiaIl Mercante Eccomi finalmente in Mesopotamia terra ricca di storia e da qualche anno anche di acqua grazie ad una colossale diga quello che fino a dieci anni fa era deserto ora e' una distesa di campi coltivati attraversati da infiniti canali per l'irrigazione solo la temperatura e' rimasta quella di sempre abbondantemente sopra i 40 gradi Ad Urfa 350anl305urfa avverto per http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/blog-182322.html Hehhhh....summer has arrived and the AIESEC tours started. First on the list was SAT Southeastern Anatolia Tour held by AIESEC Gaziantep. I went there with my boyfriend Esteban Colombia Ivan David Colombia Micky Romania and Marie Josie Canada. We decided to go there 1 day earlier since it takes about 13 hours by bus. The bus has reached Gaziantep at 4 am which was totally differe http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/blog-174206.html Well said arkadashnbspMiddle East raquonbspTurkey raquonbspUrfa By cosimovagaSeptember 28th 2005cosimo http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/Urfa/blog-170156.html Our first stop in Turkey was the smallish town of Gaziantep. During WW1 most of the young fit men of Gaziantep or Antep as it was known then were off fighting when a force of 2000 Allied soldiers armed with the best automatic weaponry of the time snuck around and approached the town unexpectedly. Some 600800 Turks formed a milita gathered up what shoddy rifles and handguns they could l http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/blog-152850.html Yes I know there is no officially recognized country by the name of Kurdistan but hey travel to SouthEastern Anatolia and talk to some locals So here's my personal Kurdistan Experience From the West the part of Turkey with high kurdish population roughly start east of the Malatya Adana Highway going all the way up to Erzurum until the TurkishGeorgian border. Having travelled from http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/Diyarbakir/blog-144330.html We woke the next day feeling somewhat seedy after no having showered for about 5 days. Our mission was to get cleansed at a Hammam a Turkish bath house.Firstly we took a merry stroll around the city of Sanilurfa. The town has seen many people of religious significance both Muslim and Christian pass through its ancient streets. It is claimed to be the birthplace of Abraham and apparently Jeasus http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/blog-133329.html Call me Marty Mettin or Maumtez.Yes this is a bike riding trip through the beating heart of the Middle East to unknowns of Central Asia and onto the motherland of Russia.I hope you enjoy reading or are at best indifferent to this oft poorly planned and somewhat misguided adventure of two semi litterate fiendishly attractive middle twenties Aussie males one of which has a penchant for absorbi http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/blog-113490.html Salam Its been some time since i last wrote something. I Capppadocia and headed towards Dogubayazit. To get there I had to take a connecting bus to Kayseri where all the bigger buses were. Instead of resting at the Otogar terminals for 1 hr I headed out to explore Kayseri instead. It was a Sunday so I guess many of the shops were closed. Walked through rows and rows of closed shops mai http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/blog-63109.html HelloThe land i am in now Anatolia and the ways and beauty of its people are a welcomed contrast of what i left behind in Russia.Remember how i said you needed to stay away from Russian police Well trying to get on my boat i was forced into a bottle neck and had to pass through customs. There they made up whatever they wanted and i spent an hour arguing with the cops about a problem wi http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/blog-61956.html Sonnenfinsternis 1999 in sterreich Robert war von ihr total begeistert Elisabeth auf Urlaub. Die nchste totale Sofi in sterreich wird in den 80er Jahren des aktuellen Jahrhunderts statt finden. Da die Wahrscheinlichkeit dass wir beide ber hundert Jahre alt werden doch eher gering einzuschaetzen ist haben wir uns fuer eine Woche auf in die Tuerkei gemacht.AllinclusiveUrlaub ist zwar http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/blog-50370.html Hace mucho que no actualizo el blog pero para ser sincera no hay muchas aventuras nuevas que contar ahi va el resumenNos quedamos en la huida de Hamadan rumbo a Esfahan donde pasamos 4 dias acabando de fotografiar el bazar e intentando centrarnos un poco y decidir si era mejor quedarnos un poco mas en Iran o volver a Turquia. Decidimos volver a Turquia cuanto antes asi que 12 horas en autobus http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/blog-43434.html Well after our rest in Goreme we finally managed to pull ourselves away and plunge into Turkeys least visited region SouthEast Anatolia aka Kurdestan. The area is overwhelmingly Kurdish with a couple of noticable Arab pockets as you'll see. Turkish is spoken rarely here as with English.Our first port of call was Mt. Nemrut the image of which currently dominates the front of all the Tur http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/blog-17609.html I'm in Mardin the final stop before Syria. Perched on the side of a hill crowned with a castle containing an immense radar dome spying on the middle east on behalf of NATO packed with historical honeycolored houses lining crooked streets Mardin is a real beauty. At least the old city is. There's the obligatory concrete sprawl but it's kept in the back so as to not ruin the view. And the http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/Mardin/blog-2418.html Greetings to my loyal following.The past few weeks have found me extremely lazy andor too busy to sit down and blog. Now that I finally find time to do so I don't have any pictures with me left them all in Istanbul so this will be a boring blog without pictures which means Baybora won't be reading it. Since I last blogged I haveBeen to CappadociaCappadocia was awesome Goreme with deserte http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Southeastern-Anatolia/Diyarbakir/blog-2352.html