The Grand Bazaar is located inside the walled city of Istanbul, in the district of Fatih and in the neighbourhood (Turkish: Mahalle) bearing the same name as, (“Kapalıçarı”). It stretches roughly from west to east between the mosques of Beyazit and of Nuruosmaniye. The Bazaar can easily be reached from Sultanahmet and Sirkeci by trams. Today the Grand Bazaar is a thriving complex, employing 26,000 people visited by between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily, and one of the major landmarks of Istanbul. It must fight the competition of the giant malls built everywhere in Istanbul, but its beauty and fascination represent a major yet also formidable advantage for it.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century the Grand Bazaar already had achieved its final shape. The enormous extent of the Ottoman Empire in three continents, and the total control of road communication between Asia and Europe, rendered the Bazaar and the surrounding Hans or caravanserais, the hub of the Mediterranean trade. According to several European travelers, at that time, and until the first half of the 19th century, the Market was unrivaled among the markets in Europe with regards to the abundance, variety and quality of the goods on sale.
Eastern Turkey’s most beauty vast, highly alkaline inland sea is also called Lake Van (Van Gölü) is surrounded by historical value and stark beauty. The city of Van is the goal of most travelers because of its all historic sights, hotels, transportation links, beautiful Van cats, dogs and other attractions, but in the Tatvan, on the western shore of van, is the railhead for trains westward from Ankara and Istanbul. It is a saline soda lake, receiving water from numerous small streams that descend from the whole
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surrounding mountains. Lake Van is one of the world’s largest endorheic lakes (having no outlet). The original outlet from the basin was blocked by an ancient volcanic eruption. Although Lake Van is situated at an altitude of 1,640 m (5,380 ft) with harsh winters, it does not freeze due to its high salinity except occasionally the shallow northern section. Lake Van is 119 kilometres (74 mi) across at its widest point, averaging a depth of 171 metres (561 ft).
The most important towns and destinations in the Cappadocia area are Urgup, Goreme, Ihlara Valley, Selime, Guzelyurt, Uchisar, Avanos and Zelve. Among the underground cities worth seeing are Derinkuyu, Kaymakli, Gaziemir and Ozkanak. The best historic mansions and cave houses for tourist stays are in Urgup, Goreme, Guzelyurt and the Uchisar. Hot-air ballooning is very popular in Cappadocia and is available in Goreme. Trekking is enjoyed in Ihlara Valley, Monastery Valley (Guzelyurt),
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Urgup and Goreme. the Sedimentary rocks were also formed in lakes and streams and ignimbrite deposits that erupted from the ancient volcanoes approximately 9 to 3 million years ago, during the late Miocene to Pliocene epochs, underlining the Cappadocia region. The rocks of Cappadocia near Göreme eroded into hundreds of spectacular pillars and minaretlike forms. People of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia Region carved out houses, churches and monasteries from the soft rocks.
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Kaputaa Beach is a very long beach between Kas and also the Kalkan in southwestern Turkey. It is situated at a distance of 20 km from Kas and 7 from Kalkan, at a point where an extremely narrow valley towered by steep cliffs and forests joins the sea shore in the cove of the same name as the beach (Kaputas). The beach is quite popular among visitors to the region due to its more untouched natural beauties which commanded by a view from the heights traversed by Kas and also the Kalkan road.
This is the one of the most attractive edifices on the Curetes Street, and it must have been built at the latest by the year 138. The temple is consist of the monumental pronaos (porch in front of cella) and a small, bare cella (main chamber). In front of the facades of the pronaos, there are four columns with Corinthian capitals supporting an odd triangular pediment. Above the two columns in the middle, there is an arch which curves down from the pediment, and the bust of Tyche, the goddess of the
Gorgeous Kaputas Beach is a lovely sandy swimming cove nestled at the foot of a striking mountain gorge, about 10 minutes from Kalkan. This is the beach often pictured in travel brochures for Turkey, although it doesn’t get crowded as one also would expect. The water is always a brilliant colour of turquoise. Umbrellas can be hired here and a few enterprising locals sell snacks and cold drinks.
city, which adorns the center of the arch. The lintel over the doors was richly decorated with classic motifs such as eggs or stranded of pearls. On the second semi-circular frontal over the door, the figure of a maiden resembling the Medusa were depicted among flowers and acanthus leaves. In front of the columns there are four bases with inscription, and the statues of the four emperors who shared the throne of the Roman Empire between 293-305. They are Diocletian, Maximian & Constantius
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TURKISH Turkish delight or Lokum is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar. Premium varieties consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios and hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel; the cheapest are mostly gel, generally flavored with rosewater, mastic, Bergamot orange or lemon. The confection is often packaged and eaten in small cubes dusted with icing sugar, copra, or powdered cream of Tartar, to prevent clinging. Other common types include such flavors as cinnamon and mint. In the production process, soapwort may be used as an emulsifying additive.`
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DELIGHT Originally, honey and molasses were its sweeteners, and water and flour were the binding agents, with rosewater, lemon peel and bitter orange as the most common flavors (red, yellow and green). Lokum was introduced to Western Europe in the 19th century. An unknown Briton reputedly became very fond of the delicacy during his travels to Istanbul and purchased cases of it, to be shipped back to Britain under the name Turkish delight. It became a major delicacy in Britain and throughout Continental Europe for high class society.
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The best times for skiing in Uldug during the period between December 20th and March 20th. Uldung Ski Centre gets about 3 metres of snow under normal winter most conditions displaying powdery snow drop at the beginning and dewy snow towards the end of winter.
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Kas itself is a quiet pleasant town with its blue sea and narrow streets scented with jasmine flowers. There are plenty of little guest houses, quiet cafes serving home cooking, or small bars to relax after a day’s scuba diving. Kas has an annual arts festival, jazz concerts in the Hellenistic theatre and the Kiln Under the Sea arts collective have held underwater ceramics exhibitions here.
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Saklikent is around 40km due east of Fethiye and north of Kas. From the south, the park can be accessed via the Kalkan - Yesilova road leading to the village of Palamut, and from the north via the Kemer road. The Saklikent Gorge is 18km long and is steep and narrow. The water at the bottom is cold even in summer, because sunlight hardly penetrates, atattractive landscape were to be seen
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Pamukkale is a tourist attraction. It is recognized as a World Heritage Site together with the one Hierapolis. Hierapolis-Pamukkale was also made a World Heritage Site in 1988. The underground volcanic activity which causes the hot springs also forced carbon dioxide into a cave, which was called the Plutonium meaning place of the god, Pluto. Tadpoles can be found in the pools.
Cappadocia Hot Air Balloon Tours is one of the best way to discover and explore the area of Cappadocia. While you are soaring between the rock formations and in the deep valleys of Cappadocia, you will close your eyes and listen to the sound of silence and peace. The Cappadocia Balloon Flights is getting more popular every year due to perfect weather conditions and amazing.
The park is located on the south of Zonguldak in the western Black Sea region. The park can be reached via the Yenicaga road, 152km off the Ankara - Istanbul highway. The park is the best known for the lakes formed by landslides, the rich plant life which gives dense coverage to the area, and the abundance of trout living in the lake.
TURKISH CULTURE
The culture of Turkey combines a heavily diverse and heterogeneous set of elements that have been derived from the Byzantine, Ottoman, European, Middle Eastern and Central Asian traditions. Turkey’s former status as a multiethnic empire which, de facto until the loss of Libya to the Kingdom of Italy in 1912 (and de jure until the official loss of Egypt and Sudan to the British Empire in 1914, as a consequence of the Ottoman government’s decision to join the First World War on the side of the Central Powers) spanned three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa. The present-day Republic of Turkey, which succeeded the Ottoman state in 1923, is still a transcontinental country that spans Europe and Asia. The nation was modernized primarily by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk starting from 1923. As he transformed a religion-driven former Ottoman Empire into a modern nation-state with a strong separation of state and religion, a corresponding increase in the methods of artistic expression arose. During the first years of the republic, the government invested a large amount of resources into fine arts such as paintings, sculpture and architecture. This was done as both a process of modernization and of creating a cultural identity. Because of the different historical factors defining the Turkish identity, the culture of Turkey combines clear efforts to be “modern” and Western, with a desire to maintain traditional religious and historical values.