Konya Travel Blogs

Today was Day One of a ten-day visit to Central Anatolia, Turkey. We spent the first half of the day in the city of Konya. We didn’t have high expectations of this town (based on our guide book), but were surprised to find a very pleasant, leafy, super clean, and friendly town. I started the morn…

Okay, here we go.  Nearly a year on The Road and here it comes.  Finally and long overdue.  Stevie’s first earnest attempt at hitchhiking.  An idea toyed with on many occasions but always chickened or talked out of at the last minute so far.  But I’m ready for it now.&n…

Another night bus journey leaving Selcuk to Konya for 7 hours. Do they always allocating foreign traveler on the same seat number? I find it weird even different bus companies allocated me the same seat 2 journey in a row. Istanbul to Selcuk and Selcuk to Konya , 29 is my lucky seat number. But if …

We took a one day package tour from Ankara to the city of Konya which included our lunch, entrance into the Mevlana museum and tickets to watch the Wirling Dervishes in action for the annual Seb-i-Aruz! The bus ride was a little over 3 hours long and stopped first a local and well renowned restaura…

This is where I belong to...

People i met here who contributed to, and improved my trip: Olcay, Kadir and Mustafa (Turkey)I had expected Konya to be slightly colder than the South coast, but i hadn't realised just how cold it was going to be. I departed my bus from Silifke at 19.45 and after calling Olcay i stood waiting for a…

Yesterday we drove from Syria to Turkey. Turkey probably has the longest modern history in Europe, with cities in Turkey for over 9000 years, which were ruled as city states until united by the Hittites (2000 BCE to 1200 BCE). After the Hittite Empire splintered up, Turkey remained seperate ci…

At about 4.30 p.m I reached Konya and visited the Mevlana museum. This is a museum dedicated to some sort of religious strict order within the islam by the dervishes, monks that lived the religious ideas of Cellaledin Rumi. His tombstone stands in the Mevlana complex.  While spinning round and…

A tour of Turkey: one of my best travel with hundreds of pictures!

I took a tour for Turkey with my twin sister for 10 days. It was typical Japanese tour. Everyday we had something to do, to see, to eat and so on. So busy and I got carsick most of the time since I had to sit in a bus for long hours to get to next place.

it's an even longer day today with more than 800km to be covered between Pamukkale and Cappadocia! We boarded the bus before 7am!One of the stops we made along the way was the city of Konya, where we visited the museum of Mevlana Museum. The founder of the Mevlevi dervish sect "Whirling dervishes" …

Turkey Tour - 22nd April - 7th May 2007

I was chosen to compete in the 'Caucasian Challenge'; a motor rally that traveled from the Balkans (Budapest, Hungary) to the Caucas Nations (Yerevan, Armenia), and many places and backroads in between. My team was sponsored by virtualtourist.com! It was truly a great adventure!!

The ultimate study abroad experience-- twenty eight students, three professors, forty cities, fourteen countries, four months.

My journey through history...Turkey from May 22 - June 9, 2008, where a piece of my heart and soul will always remain.. (and a piece of my hair)