Egirdir Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

Today was a very long time on the bus.  Thankfully, our bus is much bigger than in Morocco so it is not so bad.  However, with temperatures reaching a sweltering 40 degrees celcius sometimes, it would be nice if the air conditioner had a little more power.  Our drive, Ghengas, is hilarious.  He barely speaks any English but laughs at everything and it is contagious.  He is apparently making lots of jokes all the time. Konya was the first place that we stopped at.&nbs…

great architecture and history

We flew to Istanbul and then travelled through Turkey by bus..

 I finally made it to Egirdir, woohoo!  we were all pretty tired from the long drive and first had a meal in our Pension. Lale pension is a very nice hostel with the most friendly owners I ever met: Ibrahim and Muslum.  They were very helpful and I stayed at Charly's pension, which is part of Lale. It soon became clear why it was called Charly because this was the name of Muslum's dog, haha. Then I socialised a bit with Muslum, drank some beer and smoked some waterpipe: th…