Top 5 Things to Do or See in Turkey

Stay in a cave hotel in Cappadocia, go to hot air ballooning, horseback riding or trekking among fairy chimneys.

Go to a sailing trip at Aegean Coast aboard a luxury yacht charter, a traditional Aegean schooner, gulet, which can be cheaper than you think. >>>

Travel Istanbul aboard a ferry cruise in Bosphorus Strait between two seas, Marmara and Black Sea, and two continents, Europe and Asia, like argonauts did. Have your dinner at sunset at Kadiköy pier at the end of the day. Order Yakut for red wine or Cankaya for white. >>>

Walk around Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul seeing Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Treasure and Harem of Ottoman Sultans, Blue Mosque, Archaeology Museum, Grand Bazaar and Spice Bazaar. See the Sufi performance of the Whirling Dervishes of Rumi at Sirkeci Train Station, terminus of the Orient Express in the evening. >>>

Go extreme: Go hiking on the old volcanos of Eastern Anatolia! Climb Mount Ararat! Join an expedition team to search Noah's Ark!... Or just visit ski resorts... >>>

Gümüsler Monastery at Cappadocia

The monastery is located in Gümüşler town, an important historical source with relation to the middle ages. Despite not knowing the precise foundation of the Gümüşler Monastery, it is supposed to have been built between 8th and 12th centuries. The monastery is carved out of a large rock church and is one of the best preserved and largest of its kind in the Cappadocia region.

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Life inside Turkish nomad tent home: Yurt

A yurt is a portable, bent wood-framed dwelling structure traditionally used by Turkic nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. The structure comprises a crown or compression wheel (tüýnük) usually steam bent, supported by roof ribs which are bent down at the end where they meet the lattice wall (again steam bent). The top of the wall is prevented from spreading by means of a tension band which opposes the force of the roof ribs. The structure is usually covered by layers of fabric and sheeps-wool felt for insulation and weatherproofing. The word "yurt" comes originally from a Turkic word referring to the imprint left in the ground by a moved yurt, and by extension, sometimes a person's homeland, kinsmen, or feudal appanage. The term came to be used in reference to the physical tent-like dwellings only in other languages. In modern Turkish the word "yurt" is used as the synonym of homeland. Photos : Turkish Yurt at the Castle of Nigde. Cicim: Traditional...

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Was Tower of Babel in Cappadocia?

The Tower of Babel forms the focus of a story told in the Book of Genesis of the Bible. According to the story, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar.

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