Relgious tones, and sad going homes

"In the Bazaar, Mardin"

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Travel story: Relgious tones, and sad going homes

Well, after our rest in Goreme, we finally managed to pull ourselves away, and plunge into Turkeys least visited region, South-East Anatolia, aka Kurdestan. The area is overwhelmingly Kurdish, with a couple of noticable Arab pockets, as you'll see. Turkish is spoken rarely here, as with English.


Our first port of call was Mt. Nemrut, the image of which currently dominates the front of all the Turkish guidebooks. Again, I was determined not to take a tour up the mountain,... More