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Sanliurfa (Turkey)

Description: Southeastern Turkey

Newest Review: ... ticket to cover the remaining 135km (2 hours) to Sanliurfa, the relatively short journey passed through nice landscape that is if "arid" is still in vogue. There are of course more easier ways to get there, with buses heading and coming from a whole host of cities such as Diyarbarkir, Istanbul, Ankara, Adana and Malatya. There's no train connection. On arriving at the bus station, ... more

... several people seemed keen to say "Welcome to Kurdistan" and the locals (pre-dominantly Kurds) were friendly and quite calm. Obviously being a male with long hair and walking past several barber shops in a row, is always going to arouse inter...more

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Sanliurfa (Turkey): Urfa - One of my favourite cities (734 words)
by - written on 24/07/08 (Very useful, 48 readings)
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During my trip in Turkey several years ago, I had set my heart on the city of Sanliurfa (often just called Urfa), it looked distant and the descriptions I read were quite luring. After a week in Cappadocia, I decided to head eastwards and hitchhiked to busting Kayseri and onwards to Pinarbasi from where myself and hitchhiking partner at the time got a ride from a truck that was heading to Saudi Arabia via Gaziantep, a long afternoon and evening ensued with a heavily loaded truck travelling slowly up and down the mountainous and slow road with breathtaking views, add to that a few praying sessions for the driver, tea and food breaks and a visit to a factory in ... Read the complete review