From Sanliurfa, we relocated another three hours east to the city of Mardin, a resplendent city of 800k equally steeped in history high on a plateau in Upper Mesopotamia. It is perched high on a plateau overlooking the Mesopotamian plains all the way to Syria. It is blanketed with elegant limestone buildings, soaring intricate minarets, and is arguably neck and neck…
Cusco can be a bit chaotic and is far from a walker's paradise, so we we always looking for reasons to get out! And what better place than some peaceful ruins? The Saqsaywaman Ruins, just 2 km north of the main square in Cusco, is the most important military fort of the Incan empire, often compared with its grandness to…
We had three more days in the land of Türkiye, as the Turks prefer their country name pronounced, just enough time to squeeze in a couple more jaw-dropping wonders. Türkiye was about to add to its already significant wow factor for us at Pamukkale & Ephesus. Paumukkale, aka the Cotton Castle, is not made of salt, nor freshly fallen snow.…
