Blogs from Turkey, Middle East - page 411

Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Good? My rain gear works extremely well. The bad? You can guess. It has rained on three and a half of the five days I've been here. I should warn you that the photos won't be as stunning as they could be, as they are all shrouded by a layer of mist between subject and lens. Cities are hard to appreciate alone. By nature, a city is a place where many people pack into a small space, thereby deriving benefits from cooperation and sharing of public works, resources, etc. But to an outsider in a strange city, the entire experience can seem a bit flat, like watching a hive of bees, which has many complex behavious, but which seems, to the uneducated eye, like so ... read more

Variazione del programma. Lasciare Mardin é stato un pochino piu' complesso del previsto. Sembrava non ci fosse il bus ma alla fine, tenaci, lo abbiamo trovato! Siamo quindi arrivati alla piccola stazione degli autobus grazie ad un non troppo economico taxi che é letteralmente venuto a salvarci vista la quantita' impressionante di acqua che scendeva dal cielo e che lungo la strada in discesa aveva creato un vero e proprio torrente in piena! Proprio a causa del mal tempo abbiamo deciso di saltare Van e con una triangolazione Mardin - Diyarbakır - Van e dopo circa 18 ore di peregrinazioni (inclusa anche il ripristino dell'ora solare) siamo arrivati a: DOĞUBAYZIT Questa cittadina (mica tanto piccola alla fine) si trova a 34Km dal confine con l'Iran ed é famosa principalmente per due cose: si trova alle pendici ... read more

Hey everybody, wow..i am so happy it was my first experience in travelling abroad ...i loved it. The country of Ataturk is amazing, i saw coloured buildings totally different from mine in Tunisia, most of people were so friendly with me.they found me funny, may be because i am foreigner. I arrived in istanbul, by plane at 13:00, 29th of october2006, then i stretched to otoger( a beautiful girl helped me in metro station ) to catch the Bus for Bursa,also i built a friendship with ticket officer in kamil koc company ( for transportation, ..i am satisfied with it ), he invited me for lunch....to this point i want to say that you must be aware in Istanbul,its a crowded city wih 15 millions population; Advice ,don't trust anybody...even a new friend can lie for ... read more

Abbiamo lasciato la Cappadocia con un gran sorriso sulle labbra e sul cuore ma con tanta voglia di rimetterci in cammino. Puntiamo ad Est, sempre piu' ad Oriente fino a raggiungere il luogo dove sorge (il nostro) Sole... La prima citta' che raggiungiamo con un bus notturno é: ŞANLIURFA (anche nota come URFA) Arriviamo che é mattino presto verso le 7.30 L'otogar, la stazione degli autubus, é ancora molto calma. Come accade di solito dopo i tragitti notturni nei bus, per quanto effettuati su dei mega-confortevoli autobus della Mercedes molto moderni e con servizio a bordo (pensa...) facciamocelo a dire: un po'... rincoglioniscono !!! Quindi tutti intorpiditi ci mettiamo a fare colazione in un piccolo bar della stazione a base dell'ONNIPRESENTE çay e di deliziosi biscottini. Il Sole é caldo ed in generale le temperature sono ... read more

We are back in Istanbul and the holiday is nearly over :-( Can't believe it as it has gone so fast. We fly back to the UK tomorrow. We went to Gallipoli on Friday on the way back to Istanbul. we got the 7am ferry to the Gallipoli peninsula so we were there very early as the sun was rising. It was very peaceful. We started at ANZAC cove where the allied troops landed on the 25th April (ANZAC day) 1915. When you see how steep the cliffs are you realise why they never really had a chance. Thousands of people died. There are several graveyards for both allied and Turkish troops. We went to Lone Pine which is one of the most famous and is a memorial to the Australian soldiers who died. It is ... read more