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I’m blank. It’s been a difficult month and I don’t feel like explaining. But I want a new post, so here are some pics from my last trip to Mersin, Aug 20-30 2009.
Breakfast at a little place up in the hills outside Mersin. Sat Aug 22. It was a really good typical turkish breakfast. Total 30tl for two people.
Emrah looking over the scenery. I forget the name of the place, outside Mersin. Gözde maybe.
A big cavernous hole in the ground at Cennet Cehennem (Heaven and Hell). I think this hole was hell.
These pics are a bit out of order. This is from another cavernous hole in the ground at a place called Kanlidevani, which means something like “bloody crazy”. Apparently people were sent down into the recesses as punishment.
Emrah eating keci boynuzu (carob bean) which is supposedly an energy/aphrodisiac source. He’s got a wild look in his eye.
Climbing the ancient stonework over large pits in the ground. First E,
Then me. I walked up and down a bit more cautiously than he did.
He likes climbing around old ruins.
And then snacking afterwards. Kavurma is one of his favorites, and I rather like it too.
Inside the Cennet (Heaven) hole in the ground was an old Christian church. Behind the church the hole in the ground (green, with trees etc) becomes a real cavern.
We also spent a lot of time at the beach. This was at a place where we rented a tent and slept overnight.
Between the last post and this one, besides this difficult month, I also spent a lovely six weeks at home with my family. Hopefully things will look up again soon.
