48 hours in southeastern Turkey...After driving 7 hours southeast Murat and I arrived in Urfa (Sanliurfa), a town which is situated on a plain under big open skies, about eighty kilometers east of the Euphrates River. I wanted to come back here for the copper market where you can find craftsmen working like they did thousands of years ago. I love the travel and hunting (shopping) I do and I am always on the look out for my next best meal or food discovery, and this region delivers. It is a crossroads of Syrian, Kurdish and Turkish cultures. Anywhere else in Turkey the cooks might use 4 spices in a dish. Here, they use 15, the results being often spicy and mouthwatering. Pistachios are a staple and the baklava is as good as it gets!
After hours of shopping we headed back to Goreme with a trunk filled with copper and a few kilos of baklava...
On the way back from Urfa Murat mentioned that his grandfather and great grandfather used to travel this route on donkeys to trade in this region. I closed my eyes and tried to imagine.
After hours of shopping we headed back to Goreme with a trunk filled with copper and a few kilos of baklava...
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| a shot while leaving Goreme for Urfa...çok güzel(very beautiful in Turkish) |
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| hand made and carved, this is before they have tinned it. |
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| copper dealer who remembered my last visit with my daughter... |
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| proof of life! |
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| Murat mesmermized by the goat skin drum he purchased |
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| beautiful spoons... |
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| Pigeon breeders |
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| Baklava from Dilim Pastanesi in Sanliurfa |
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| the road back to Kapadokya throught the Takir Valley...the Toros mountains in view |
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