After stopping along the way in Eskişehir, Kütahya,
Akşehir, Konya and Karaman,
the Iç Anadolu Mavi Tren (EECH
ah-nah-doh-loo mah-VEE trehn) arrives
in Adana,
on Turkey's eastern Mediterranean
coast, at 18:40 (6:40 pm) the next
evening after a journey of 18:50 hours.
The return train departs Adana daily
at 14:00 (2:00 pm), arriving in Istanbul
the next morning at 08:58 am.
From Adana, there are frequent
buses to
İskenderun and Antakya (Hatay),
from where you can go easily to the
Syrian border for
onward travel to
Aleppo(Halep
Halab) and Damascus(Şam,
Dimashk).
