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Gaziantep Day Trip
Jordan and I took a day trip to Gaziantep where we went to the zoo, did some shopping at an old bazaar, and visited the largest mosaic museum in the world!
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| The pretty star fountain! |
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| Meet Gabi, the Gaziantep Zoo elephant. |
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| Read what the Gaziantep Zoo had to say about Gabi. We got a kick out of reading all of the English translation of these signs. |
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| Mickey Mouse's ugly step brother! |
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| A giraffe never looked so good! |
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| I didn't take a picture of the bizaar so I found one on google. There were so many things to look at! |
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| Mosaic museum. |
Tarsus and Mersin Day Trip
Jordan and I also spent a day traveling to Tarsus and Mersin where we saw several historical landmarks...
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| The Romans built this waterfall and river in the 3rd century. |
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| This road doesn't look like much but Julius Caesar himself walked on this Roman road that was described as being like 5th Avenue in NYC today. |
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| The apostle Paul was born in Tarsus. As you can see, this is St. Paul's well where he drank frequently from as it was said to contain curative properties. |
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| Jordan getting some of that holy water! |
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| St. Paul's church |
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| Tarsus is also the place where Cleopatra and Marc Antony first met. Google says,"The Tarsus gate of Cleopatra, also called the “Sea Gate,” still stands today, though it has been significantly restored. It was believed that Cleopatra sailed up the Cydnus disguised as Aphrodite and came through this gate in 41 B.C. on her way to meet Mark Antony." |
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| Roman ruins. This is a picture of the Roman market where they would trade fish. |
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| Roman ruin ampitheater. The rows of seats to the right have been restored so you can imagine what the seats looked like when it was first built. |
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| We also went to the chasm of heaven and the pit of hell. We walked 450 steps down to heaven and peered over a 120 meter (394 feet) pit of hell. |
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