A surprise party in Turkey

Dear followers,

As Jorick already told you, we’re in Turkey at the moment. So you probably know that we visited Trabzon, Antalya and Istanbul. At first I wasn’t really looking forward to visit this country because when people talk about Turkey it’s always about partying, drinking and sunbathing. But when we prepared our trip I got to know this country a little bit better and I have to say that I was very curious when we headed off to Istanbul…

I think you all know that Islam is the dominant religion of Turkey, so we definitely had to visit some mosques during our couple of weeks there. We had heard that the “Sultan Ahmed Mosque” was one of the most impressive buildings of Istanbul and I have to say that it wasn’t a lie. As you can see on the picture it is a beautiful mosque and to be honest, I think these buildings are much more breathtaking  than our churches in Belgium.

Even though Turkey still maintains its traditional and historical values, they try to be a modern Western state. But in my point of view there’s a lot of difference between several  cities. When we were visiting Trabzon for example, it was rather traditional, but in Istanbul the Western influence is very obvious. What I also want to mention about Trabzon is that we all tried to folk dance over there, because folk dancing is very popular in that city.So that was definitely a nice experience for all of us…

While I’m talking about traditions, I also want to show you something we ate last night. At first I thought it was a kind of sandwich, but when I put it in my mouth I was in shock… Because there was something in it that I wasn’t used to eating on my sandwich. Besides meat, cheese and potatoes, there was also some yogurt in “Börek”. So I definitely wasn’t expecting yogurt to be an ingredient. But yogurt seems to be very popular here, and I have to say that it didn’t taste that bad… 

With these new experiences we’re travelling to our next destination. If you’re curious to know where we’re going, keep on following our blog and we’ll keep you posted!

Enjoy your day,
Lisa Van Gassen

Turkey week 5

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey