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    Posted on May 21st, 2010

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    Video: A Walk Around the Ruined Garden of Eden

    Video: A Walk Around the Ruined Garden of Eden

      If we were honest, we’d have to admit that the dig at Göbekli Tepe was what brought us to Turkey. Martin wrote up a great piece about the dig and it’s significance here. While I think he went into great detail describing the place, I think it’s also fun to see it on video. [...]

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    Posted on May 18th, 2010

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    Turkish Kurdistan – Current Security Situation

    Turkish Kurdistan – Current Security Situation

    When looking at the map, it is pretty evident that we’re a stone’s throw away from Syria, Iraq and Iran, place names that have a dangerous ring to western ears. Indeed, friends and family have expressed a bit of concern over our current whereabouts.  Well, we can all relax! Any misgivings we may have had [...]

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    Posted on May 17th, 2010

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    The First Temple – a Visit to the Ruined Garden of Eden

    The First Temple – a Visit to the Ruined Garden of Eden

    Göbekli Tepe is a world sensation. The site has been called the Garden of Eden, an archeological miracle and the missing link between hunter gatherer societies and agricultural societies. It is a mind-boggling twelve thousand years old – the oldest temple ever found. I suspect that in twenty years, the site will no longer need [...]

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    Posted on May 16th, 2010

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    Buying a Carpet in Turkey: A Competitive Girl’s Adventure

    Buying a Carpet in Turkey: A Competitive Girl’s Adventure

     Martin’s advice on buying a Kurdish carpet was simple: You can’t win. That’s it. Just one rule; one that drove the proverbial nail in the coffin for a competitive girl like myself. I can’t win, huh? He explained further: men have been selling carpets here for thousands of years. They are Carpet Selling Supermen and [...]

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    Posted on May 14th, 2010

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    Holy Carp!

    Holy Carp!

    Believe it or not: these carp were once the glowing coals of a fire set to roast the prophet Abraham alive. God Almighty understandably did not like to have his prophet roasted by infidels, so he created a spring underneath the fire. The result was an eruption that turned the coals into fish and flung [...]

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    Posted on May 14th, 2010

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    The Singing Kurds of Diyarbakir

    The Singing Kurds of Diyarbakir

    A guy walked up to us on the street. He offered to take us to a place where they ‘sing without instruments’. Wary that he’d instead take us to his uncle’s carpet shop, he assured us that this certain pleasure was free of charge.   What next transpired must be one of the most magical [...]

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    Posted on May 14th, 2010

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    Dumb Things We Carry

    Dumb Things We Carry

    Our friends over at No Place to Be recently asked us what the least used item in our backpack was. I think I answered that it was my Blackberry (haven’t turned the thing on since May 2009), but that was before we picked up the gem above.   Yep, it’s a plaster model of a section of [...]

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    Posted on May 13th, 2010

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    Photo Gallery: The Back Roads of Ancient Diyarbakir, Turkey

    Photo Gallery: The Back Roads of Ancient Diyarbakir, Turkey

    We decided to do the tried-and-true travel method of getting to know a new city: get lost. Today’s adventure was through the back streets of Diyarbakir’s old town. What we found was a confusing but surprisingly clean labyrinth of ancient culture and architecture.   You can check them out in this screen or see them [...]

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    Posted on May 12th, 2010

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    First Impressions of Diyarbakir

    First Impressions of Diyarbakir

    When planning our trip to Turkey we knew just a few things about the country. One: we wanted to go. Two: it’s the seat of civilization (translation: people have been here a long, long time). Because we are the type of travelers we are, seeing just Istanbul and the Aegean Coast wasn’t going to do [...]

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