Two days in Sanliurfa

Trip Start May 27, 2007
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Trip End Jun 13, 2007


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Monday, June 11, 2007

Sanliurfa is a very beautiful city with a great central park with many historic sites.  There is a festival in town so there are many people around with music and other stuff.  We took a day trip to Harran which is mentioned in the book of Genesis (i.e., very old city) but it was pretty disappointing as was the cave where the profit Job spent some time.

Grabbed a beer at a bar today and a local came by to check out a game Nate and I was playing  (Pass the Pigs).  He ended up buying us a beer, playing some backgammon with us, and invited us over to a large table at the bar where several family members were having lunch (roasted eggplant stuffed with ground lamb, roasted peppers, onions, tomatoes, flatbread - very tasty!).  typical hospitality.

Anyway it was all good to see and we're off tonight to Istanbul for one more day until my flight home - mussels here we come!

Chris







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shbell
shbell on Jun 11, 2007 at 06:54PM

Loved the bee hives
Bop and I are totally looking forward to seeing you in Cabo - as a favor, could you bring you lap top with your pictures (maybe you have time to put them on a CD) so we can all share them together - we are going to celebrate father's day in cabo - love your blogs!!

travel mom

jende
jende on Jun 13, 2007 at 07:07AM

kewl
looks fantastic, i really should have checked this email sooner. ill have to go back and backblog everything.
bn

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