The fourth largest city in Turkey, Bursa has a ton to offer visitors and makes for a great weekend destination. Bursa’s location on a plane that stretches out in front of Mt Uludağ gave the city its nickname “the green city” and makes it a prime destination for skiing tourism in the winter months. Its…
Category: Further Afield
Şanliurfa
Şanliurfa (also referred to as just Urfa) is a real Mesopotamian city, set 80 kms east of the Euphrates River. Urfa is the most Middle Eastern-feeling of any Turkish city I have ever visited. The city has been inhabited since antiquity and is believed to be the birthplace of the Prophet Abraham. This ancient history,…
Göbekli Tepe
Göbekli Tepe is arguably the most important historical site in Turkey, believed to be home to the oldest temple in the world. Excavations here started in earnest in the 1990s and what they have uncovered has changed our assumptions about the development of human civilization.
Nemrut Dağı
Nemrut Dağı (Mt Nemrut), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most unique sites in Turkey and is frequently featured on the front of guidebooks and tourist brochures. The site exists because a crazy, megalomaniac king of a long-dead empire decided he wanted to be buried on top of a remote mountain in…
Gaziantep
Gaziantep is best known for being Turkey’s culinary heartland. Many of the country’s most famous and beloved kebabs and desserts are native to the Gaziantep region. The region is also the heart of Turkish pistachio production. In addition to fabulous cuisine, Gaziantep is home to one of the best museums I have ever seen: the…