Two days in heat, between headscarfs and ruins: Şanlıurfa is a strange but worthwhile city. Depending on the source between 763 000 and 1 500 000 people live here - on the streets 95% of them are men. İf you do not become a feminist in here, then nowhere.
With up to 38 C it was the hottest place we got to know in Turkey so far. Even the money came out of the ATM hot. At nine in the morning, the sun was burning so hard that nobody wanted to sit in the light:
In the bazaar, the people were less impressed, they worked with fire anyway:
We focused on the cultural sights...
Abraham's cave (they say Abraham was born here)
And the famous beehouses in Harran, a small village about 40 km away:
inside the beehouses:
We had a great time here, especially because of some very friendly girls we got to know on the first afternoon. We drank juice in the only cool place in Urfa: a cave under the castle. The next evening we enjoyed baklava on a roofterace.
Oh yeah, never forget Atatürk. The day we arrived was a military holiday. Decorations stayed.