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Middle East - Turkey: The Wildest Place I Have Ever Been - part II
Andy Wunder
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Middle East - Turkey: The Wildest Place I Have Ever Been - part II
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Harin This city was mentioned in the book of Genesis and is argued as the oldest city in the world. They make their houses like this as refuge from the heat. the day I was there it reached 130 degrees F. |
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Harin This is inside the house from the previous picture. The kids were great and let me try on some traditional clothes. |
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Madrin A very beautiful city flowing down a hill overlooking the Syrian plane. |
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Madrin I made some Turkish friends and we went to one of thier uncle's shops for tea and food. We passed this mosque on the way. |
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Hasankeyf A praying man at a cemetary overlooking a scorched valley. |
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Hasankeyf Relaxing and waiting out the heat on the Tigris with two locals and the Polish couple, Dawid and Magda. |
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Hasankeyf Some friends Í made and danced with at the Kurdish music festival. The peace sign stands for Kurdish sovereignty . . . apparently, its not wise to do that in Turkey. |
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Hasankeyf At the festival they had a tea guy instead of the beer guy. I literally couldnt find alcohol anywhere for about 10 days. It was a very strict Islamic area. Thats Dawid by the way. |
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Hitchhiking Letting the trucks and our Iranian drivers take a break from the desert heat. |
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Van Dancing with some random locals that picked us up and bought us beer. They were crazy. |
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Van The dancing continues in the car with Dawid and Magda. |
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Dogubeyazit Dogubeyazit is a city thats about 15km from the Iranian border. This pic is of a very old Persian palace. The feeling in this part of the country was very exotic. |
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Dogubeyazit Looking back over the palace as it looms over the desert. Right out of the picture is Mt. Ararat ... where Noah's Arc is supposedly ended up. |
