Turkey catch-up

Here are some pictures from our last days in Turkey, over a month ago.


In the south-east of the country is Mt. Nemrut, the centre of Antioch of biblical times. At the top of the mountain are these giant stone statues of the king, the gods, and other people.



The stone heads used to rest on top of these pedestals at the top of the mountain.

The famous site in the city of Urfa where the prophet Abraham did something with fish (can someone refresh our memory on how this story went?). There were tonnes of tourists here from Iran, feeding the very fat fish which still swim in these ponds.

Beehive houses in Harran, a small dusty town near the Syrian border, which is probably the second longest inhabited settlement in the world after Damascus.

At our last stop in Antep, we stumbled across an amazing museum of mosaics from the floors of the old Roman city of Zeugma. The city and its mosaics were going to be flooded by the Ataturk dam, but fortunately they were rescued and collected in the very impressive museum. This mosaic is the most famous and is called The Gypsy Girl.