Gaziantep mozaic museum

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 areLue lisää
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 areLue lisää
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 aLue lisää
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 thereLue lisää
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. TheLue lisää
We came to Cappadocia several years ago. It was April and it snowed heavily. When we visited the open air museum it was just raining but very cold so seeing it again today in blazing sunshine was aLue lisää