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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 the other dormitory where we spent the night for Mardin Museum. The weather was as sunny as during the last days, but still with the cool air of the night...still I couldn't spot any cloud on the sky. The streets of Mardin seemed tiny, but clean, cute, with crowded small buildings, lots of differently shaped shops. The only "dark" thing was the nausea that I was feeling, and I could see that everybody was sharing that feeling, and you can also see it on everybody's faces in the pictures.
The museum was really nice, someone made an effort in pay attention to the details. Honestly I liked more the landscape behind me :p, and someone said that at the
horizon was the border with Syria...eee...fascinating, right? I agree, totally.
After breakfast we visited some old mosques with stories that I forgot (I am ashamed to admit it, but is true). Then we went to Abraham's Holy Lake. That place is a huge park, all green, clean, full of turists. This lake is full of fish, and nobody is alowed to try to catch them or even try to touch them. We also entered in a mosque, we drank water that it's said to heal every problem that you have, then, in another mosque, I saw the cave where Abraham was born. It was rather dark and the hour for noon prayer, so I had to go out fast. The park seems huge, but I couldn't visit it....very high I noticed some walls, beautiful and big, I guess it was another castle.
So - back to the bus. The bus travelled back 6-8 hours (we slept like babies) to the Gaziantep Bus Station, from where we took out 15 hours trip, back home.
In the end, I think this was the tour that made me the strongest impression of all the others. Ever since I
set foot in Turkey, I was wondering about the Southeastern part, because on TV they always say only bad things (about being extremely poor, about fighting and killings, about sadness and misfortunes). But I learnt (among others), one thing: never trust what others say, because the bad impression that they have might be wrong. It's true, many said "What are you doing there? What can you see there? It's nothing there!" - and that coming from Turkish people. But as long as that piece of land belongs to this country, it has to be precious enough for at least one visit.
Don't stand there, take a look in all the remote places of this world, the surprise can be a wonderful one and most of all, unforgetable!
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I need some holy water...
hehe, I wanna take a bath there, maybe holy water could help me to find the right way :))