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Bright Sun
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It's
friendly, beautiful, culturally
rich and good
value for money. It's modern enough
to be comfortable yet traditional enough
to be interesting.
Turkey
is one of the world's top 10
travel destinations, welcoming
more than 23
million visitors every year.
Culture & Art: Turkey's
history of human habitation goes
back 25,000 years. Some of the earliest-known
human communities are here. Hittites, Phrygians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines,
Crusaders, Seljuks,
Mongols, Ottomans and
others have all left their works
of art and culture in what is now
the Turkish homeland. Modern Turkey
has all this—and more mobile
phones than you've ever seen
in one place before.
Special-Interest
Activities: With
nearly 8400 km (5200 mi) of
coastline, water
sports and yachting are big favorites. Hiking, white-water
rafting, mountain-climbing and bicycling are
all important, and growing,
as is skiing.
My favorite of all is hot-air
ballooning.
Cuisine: Turkish
food is now world-famous,
and rightly so. The abundance of
its fields, farms, orchards, flocks
and fishing boats is exceptional,
and Turkish chefs take full advantage
of this bounty. Everyone comments
on how good the food is. Then there's Turkish
tea....
Good
Times: Sit at a long table
in a meyhane (taverna)
in Istanbul, Kuşadası, Bodrum, Antalya,
order a glass of beer,
wine or
pungent rakı and
join in the songs and stories.
Turks revel in good food, good
friends, good times, and good nightlife.
For
stories of life and travel in Turkey,
read the excerpts from my
travel memoir Bright
Sun, Strong Tea.
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