Tuesday, I arrived in Sanliurfa (Urfa) by bus, a mere two-hour ride. Today I just arrived in Mardin. When I was at Palmyra, in Syria, a woman gave me a card to a guesthouse here in Urfa. I called upon my arrival, and the person picked me up from the bus station. The guesthouse is Read more
The history of Anatolia dates back to the Hittite Empire before the start of the Iron Age of 1200 BCE, the seas people conquered the Hittites after 1200 BCE. The Hittites was a tribe and the son of Canaan, thus Canaanites. Gaziantep is a province that was continuously inhabited starting from the Palaeolithic age. The Read more
The pictures are of Antakya.I arrived in Gaziantep (Antep) today from Antakya, a three-hour bus ride. The route was very beautiful driving along the mountain landscape. Driving into town the temperature was 31 degrees Celsius, although much dryer than Antakya.The amount of people that can speak some English is less than a handful. I cannot Read more