Urfa and the Syrian border

Urfa on the Syrian border turned out to be what I expected all Turkey to be like. It was crowded, chaotic with lots of street stalls and crazy traffic. Its also quite a religious town, we couldn't get a beer during our stay and most people were fasting for ramadan - there was also a noticable lack of women. There was also a noticable lack of tourists - making our western looking group a bit of a spectacle much of the time we were wandering around town.

We went to see where Abraham was born in a cave, and a nearby lake with sacred carp. There was some story involving someone trying to burn someone at the stake and the flames turned to fish - hence the sacred carp.

The town was quite interesting lots of mazes of little streets and endless chaotic confusing markets and odd-looking food products, including a carrott root drink- but don't ask me what the root of a carrott looks like.