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Our mini bus has fantastic wi-fi!. It hasn't been working till now but they fixed yesterday so now we have good Internet access while we are travelling, and I was able to upload up the blog picturesЧитать далее
Our mini bus has fantastic wi-fi!. It hasn't been working till now but they fixed yesterday so now we have good Internet access while we are travelling, and I was able to upload up the blog picturesЧитать далее
Pretty much everywhere in Cappadocia, because of the deep layers of volcanic ash now turned to stone, all the houses and villages have dug huge complicated rooms, corridors and houses underground. TheЧитать далее
Just a few minutes drive from Hattusa in the site of Yazilikaya, a religious sanctuary with wall reliefs of the Hittite kings and gods, from the 13th century BC. Hittites burned their dead so thereЧитать далее
Hattusa is one of the highlights of the trip for us. We know of it as the capital of the Hittite empire from around 1700 BC to 1200BC when it was destroyed and the Hittites "disappeared ". But we haveЧитать далее
We spent the morning in the Ankara museum. Its quite a small museum in a beautiful 15th c ottoman Palace and, like all the museums we've been to here, is well thought out and presented. It contains aЧитать далее
38 degrees C today. Should be cooler in Ankara.
For some reason at the moment we are unable to up load pictures. The hotel in Ankara is really crappy so I think it's Internet access is very weak, weЧитать далее
We spent the morning in the mosaic museum in Gazientep and after lunch had a walk through the old town and bazaar, before going to the airport for our flight to Ankara.
The mosaics in the museum areЧитать далее
From Sanliurfa we took our bus to the banks of the Euphrates and a hours river trip before having lunch. On the river trip we could see the remains of a seljuk and roman fort dating to the firstЧитать далее