It is sometimes a bit hard to keep up with the blogs. Not because I don’t like it or have nothing to write but probably because there is too much to write. Every morning, middag and evening another adventure awaits, in the morning we don’t know where we sleep at night and when we think to take a break something unexpected happens.
But we love keeping you all up to date about our adventures and of course it’s a journal for ourselves so after one year we remember all we did 😉
The oldest temple of the world
The past couple of days were intens. From Nemrut we drove to Gobeklitepe. The oldest known settlement or temple on earth. At least for now, until another one is found. The settlement is at least 11.000 years old, wow that’s old isn’t it? And still the carvings in the pillars are incredible and very visible nowadays.
While tour groups took their time we did go through it on our own pace, which means; quite fast. The thing is, if we want to know something special we can read about it online. While we’re there at the sight we just love to visualise how life must have been in that time, we imagine how people were walking there and what they would think if they could get a glimpse of what we’ve done to the earth. So we did that and than we moved on.
The city of prophets; Sanliurfa
To the city of prophets. It is believed that Abraham was born here. Sanliurfa is a big city, 2 million people live here. That’s double the amount of Amsterdam, still it doesn’t feel that big at all. But maybe that’s because it’s Sunday and on Sundays the Turkish people are in lockdown. Tourists can do whatever they want but the locals have to stay out.
We went to the famous Balikligolu, fish lake, where the sacred carp lives. These carps are protected and the people believe that when you kill a carp you will become blind. There are stall everywhere to buy fish food so you can feed them. We’re sure one of the fish had eaten too much, he was floating and died while we were watching him struggle. Does this make our eyesight bad? We hope not because that makes driving to China quite hard.
We then found a nice Airbnb to stay for the night and the next day moved on.
Love, Milene & Yuri
