Minibus with pumping sound!

Snowboarding

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March 12th 2006
About 75km east of Goreme is the 3900m volcanic Mt Erciyes. It has a small ski resort on it and the Lonely Planet had some directions on how to get there. The Dutch guys got there a day before us and said there weren't any hostels to stay at near the slopes so we opted to stay in Kayseri - a huge industrial town about 15km away. There weren't any hostels either but we eventually found a cheap hote ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Konya

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Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more