Destination: Turkey

A Journey Through Time: Traveling the 7 Churches Route

Sun, 14 Jun 2015 | By krodin | Views [555]

A Journey Through Time: Traveling the Seven Churches Route   The modern city of Izmir sits on ancient Symrna.  The city was famous as a trade route in the ancient world and remains so today.  It is my starting point for an excursion ... Read more >

Hittite Sites: Hattusa, Yazilikaya and Alacahoyuk

Fri, 12 Jun 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [735]

YESTERDAY'S DRIVE SOUTH TO BOGAZKALE, though long, was refreshing; two-lane blacktop winding through rolling hills and freshly sown fields and charming run-down villages.  Mustafa was waiting for us with sweet tea at his family’s Hotel Baykul, ... Read more >

Safronbolu

Wed, 10 Jun 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [265]

THE ANCIENT HITTITE CAPITAL OF HATTUSA is only an hour or so east of Ankara but we decided to take a 500 kilometer detour and an overnight visit in the Ottoman town of Safronbolu instead of the direct route.  This would be our only chance to visit ... Read more >

Ankara

Tue, 9 Jun 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [249]

NOWHERE IN THE AZERBAIJAN WEBSITE DO THEY mention that you cannot get a visa in Turkey unless you are a resident as the friendly folks at the embassy politely informed us.  So we had to go through a Baku travel agency on-line and fork over $120 ... Read more >

Around Bursa

Sat, 6 Jun 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [323]

PART OF THIS VISIT TO TURKEY IS A TRAVEL EXPERIMENT to test our hypothesis — that it is better to endure the cold desolation of off-season travel than to compete with the tourist hoards of summer.  There are many new places we want to see ... Read more >

Photos: Central Turkey

Thu, 4 Jun 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery

Theatre Madrasa,Unique Performance Research Center

Thu, 28 May 2015 | By madrasa | Views [397] | Scholarship Entry

It's easy to arrive in Selçuk. The famous Ephesus is just behind the corner there. Get to Selçuk bus station. If you'll manage to survive the man who's trying to offer you a new bus ride, the man who's trying to sell you the cheapest pension in the range ... Read more >

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Batman

Thu, 28 May 2015 | By veronicasworldofwonders | Views [152] | Scholarship Entry

Sometimes the real treasure you can discover by traveling is not hidden in the places you visit, rather in the people you meet. That is exactly what happened to me when I went to Batman, Turkey. When I was first propose “would you like to go to Batman”, ... Read more >

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Honeymoon on the Moon

Thu, 28 May 2015 | By ofelialegaspi | Views [127] | Scholarship Entry

Crude columns poke out big and burly and phallic on the horizon. The rocks seduce us with details. Curtains flutter from windows. Birds disappear into pigeon holes. This is Love Valley, Cappadocia. Our van roars up a steep incline leading to our hotel.... Read more >

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Istanbul. They Call it Chaos, We Call It Home

Thu, 28 May 2015 | By naelarose | Views [131] | Scholarship Entry

[Journal extract] The cobbled pavements teem with a buzzing frenzy of people. Tourists, locals, street-sellers and punters create a steady stream of bodies, flowing consistently through the narrow streets of this heaving city. Whether you love or hate ... Read more >

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Photos: Turkey

Thu, 28 May 2015 | By mjfalk | Photo Gallery

Kappadokya

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By kappadokya | Views [117] | Scholarship Entry

Travel is my passion. No matter where I travel, it just has to be an alien place, somewhere I have never been before. During my childhood I did not travel as I used to leave in fanatic country with old mentality that girls are not allowed to travel alone ... Read more >

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One November in Turkey

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By lifeincamelot | Views [316] | Scholarship Entry

His steely eyes surveyed me through a sea of stubble (his five o’clock shadow grew well past the usual demarcation lines), as he slung my overly heavy backpack into the deep hole beneath the bus, one November in Turkey. He grunted and jerked his head ... Read more >

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Summer Camp

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By irnin-k | Views [117] | Scholarship Entry

I am an overheated appliance as I step into the swimming pool and allow my body to be submerged in the heavenly, cool water. It's a long minute before I can feel my body temperature slowly returning to a human level. We had raced from the beach at the ... Read more >

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Hope and blame

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By pureadrenalin | Views [249] | Scholarship Entry

I started to get bored. I didn’t know the reason of my state of mind, I just knew that something had disturbed me. So, I started walking. I had walked for more than three miles when I found myself in front of a park that was nestled between two areas:... Read more >

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