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Published: June 27th 2007
Hehhhh....summer has arrived and the AIESEC tours started. First on the list was SAT (Southeastern Anatolia Tour) held by AIESEC Gaziantep. 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 different from what we were told when we bought the ticket..6 am. Anyway, we took a nap in the huge bus station.
We started walking at 6 am..and we were thinking that it will take something like 15 minutes to the center, but we ended up taking the bus for 20 minutes 😊 Now, I have to thank God for learning Turkish at the proper time, otherwise I'd have never understood what was that man explaining to me..hihi. He took us (4 people) in the center - even if he wasn't allowed to go there - and dropped us..all the shops were closed. At first sight, looked like a combination between Ankara and Eskisehir. I have to admit that it was pretty clean and looked surprisingly nice. Time passed by and our stomachs signaled us for a breakfast. After that, we decided to visit the local Zoo. We took a
Old Gaziantep
5 am - the Kurdish part (I guess)bus and after 30 minutes we reached the city's university. Maybe it was a coincidence, but the AIESEC office was 10 minutes away.
One of the AIESEC Gaziantep members came to pick us up. We visited the office and we met the EB..really cool and nice guys. One of them, Umit, decided to take us to the Zoo and said he knows a shortcut. We spent 1 hour in the blazing sun..haha..in the middle of nowhere..just forest and sand. Finally some men took us by car and we reached the Zoo's gates. It was amazing. We were there from 10 am till 2 pm. I heard that this Zoo is the third largest in Europe (and I guess it's also the cheapest - 1 dollar/student). I saw monkeys, hawks, birds of all sorts, aqarium, bears, zebras, lions, a giraffe, pumas, camels, ostriches, lamas, all sorts of goats..amazing..seeing them LIVE for the first time in my life.
After that we returned to the AIESEC office and the president took us to eat the cheapest Kebap of my life (and the spiciest). We rested for a while, then we went to the old part of the city where he had
the best baklava in the world and in the evening the same president took us to a restaurant (as you can see in the photo..) where we ate TONES of foooood..then....sleeeeeeeeeeeep for 6 hours 😊,
More to come...one day at a time 😊
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