Two young lads walking ahead of me were a little to0 fast for me to catch up through the fertile muddy trail only few have explored. My black trekking pants were marred with red-coloured mud ankle high. The mud had formed a new layer below my shoes sole that I could no longer feel the even […]

After roaming around Sanliurfa for a day, I ventured out of town to a dusty town of Hilvan to experience Kurdish culture and hospitality through a homestay programme organized by Alison Tanik’s Nomad Tours. How else to experience the Kurdish way of living than living with them under one roof? A month before my schedule […]

Although Sanliurfa is out of the tourist trail, it is famous among Muslims as a sacred city where Muslims come to pay homage to the historical sites in Sanliurfa. The most visited one was Balikligol complex which houses Mevlid-I-Cave, I-Cami, Halil-Ul-Rahman and Urfa Castle. I could not help but notice the purple clad head scarf worn […]

The Best of Southeastern Anatolia – Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey is less travelled than other parts of Turkey. Brazen with sense of adventures, I continued my journey to Turkey in search for cradle of civilisation. Throughout the journey, I was fascinated with dramatic sceneries, rich culture and extraordinary food. I was advised against going to Southeastern Anatolia […]

As my travel journey to Turkey has progressed rather slowly, I am going to provide a summary of day-to-day activities. Day 3 was my last day in Istanbul as my primary objective was to travel to South Eastern Turkey. Therefore, I went to many places in the span of one day. On my second day […]

Istanbul Archaeological Museum is one of the world’s richest collections of classical artifacts, and also includes treasures from the pre-classical world. The museum’s main building was erected under the directorship of Osman Hamdi Bey (1881-1910). After exploring Topkapi Palace and its secret chamber,  I found myself at Istanbul Archaeological Museum the same afternoon. As it […]

Breakfast and ice-breaking session done. We walked from Pudding Shop, Sultanahmet to Hagia Sophia. Since I wanted to cover other places of interest too, I bought the Muze Kart for 85TL. There are two types of museum cards which are 3 days and 5 days. Mine was the 3 days museum card which entitled me […]

In March 2014, I embarked on yet another solo backpacking journey. This time to Turkey. I grabbed the Qatar Airways Promotion ticket at the price of RM2,087 few months back. To be honest, I had not been travelling alone for years and never this far. The first hurdle I had was the 40 minutes transit […]

Solo backpacking to Turkey marks a come back of my solo backpacking era. I had not ventured out on my own for the past one and a half years. Backpacking to Turkey is also the first backpacking trip to Europe. To be politically correct, Turkey is half of two worlds. It is located at the […]