Yeah, there is still such a thing! We have spent the better part of a week going to Adana (which is more of a transport hub) and Antakya in southern Turkey and crossing the border to Aleppo in Syria. We've had a wonderful time - Antakya has remnants of early Christian life outside the Holy Land, with a cave church were St Peter is supposed to have prayed to the first Christians calling themselves so and a museum with the most beautiful Roman/Byzantine mosaics in Turkey (it was once quite an important city in the antique Mediterranean world). Aleppo had a wonderful souq and a nicely impenetrable fortress (!) as well as pretty alleys. I'll show you some highlights over the coming days (but I promise to spare you the evidence of the camel butcher!) but for tonight, I think an orange tree bearing fruit and our bus ticket from Aleppo back to Antakya will do nicely as titbits!
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