Category: Turkey

A Few More Photos from Mount Nemrut (Nemrut Dağı)

Who says every post has to be a long-winded rant? Here’s a few pic­tures I took on top of a moun­tain when we were in Turkey!

Crossing the border from Turkey into Iran

We were both still sick, but non­ethe­less on Wednesday, June 16th we bought bus tickets from Van, Turkey to Orumiyeh, Iran. I must admit that deep inside me I was a little uncer­tain.
The bus left Van at 9:45 am. Tired, a bit hungry (because I’m always a little hungry) and still sick, I struggled to [...]

Diyarbakır (Amed), home of the Kurds

We had one of our best single days in Diyarbakır, thanks to the gen­er­os­ity and eager­ness of one man to share his city and culture with two total strangers. We met Muzaffer while walking down the street, in what seemed at first like just another friendly “where are you from?”
It’s a common enough thing for strangers [...]

Feeling homesick after 5.5 months of travel

For the first time in my life I have had people ask me where I’m from and when I say Canada they shrug their shoulders and say, “Where’s that?”  After 5.5 months I am offi­cially home­sick.
Although some of my home­sick­ness might be brought on by the fact that my entire body is aching, my eyeballs [...]

Laura wants to share lots of random photos with you

Currently Chris and I are in a hotel room in Diyarbakir in eastern Turkey. I thought I could post a bunch of random photos for you guys to enjoy. They cover all sorts of dif­fer­ent things and times during our trip, includ­ing our Sahara trek, Italy, Morocco and Turkey.
We plan on heading into Iran in three [...]