It is day 7 of my trip in Turkiye, and it's been absolutely brilliant thus far - great fun and awesome food.

After 7 days, maybe I should write briefly about the things I've experienced so far in Turkiye.

1. WC
Toilets are really well sign-posted here - only thing is that hardly anyone of them is free-of-charge. You have to pay between 0.25 - 1 YTL (about S$0.30 - S$1.20) to go in and it's not like it's very special or clean either. You can even get a receipt I think cos there's a cash register.....

Also, gone are the days of seated toilet bowls - it's back to the good ole' days of squatting on flat land. No flush either - you fill a bailer at the side with water to flush the toilets.

2. Japan? Korea?
Due to the influx of Japanese and Korean tourists, and of course the lack of Singaporean travellers, we're ALWAYS asked if we are from Japan or Korea. And none of them seem to understand that Singapore is not a part of Japan or Korea (at least they don't think that Singapore is in China).

Also, foreigners are adorned with the best service and everyone in town comes to greet you when you eat in a Kebab saloon. They even call their friends to come to gawk look at us. And everyone tries to show you to different places - having a foreign friend is like having a trophy..

Though having said that, the locals here are really hospitable. We even got invited to a house for lunch which we didn't have to pay for, and got treated to free tea a couple of times (tea drinking is a HUGE culture here - we have at least 3 cups each day)

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I think this is as much as I can write on this Turkish keyboard. It's agonising typing on a foreign keyboard. For now, I shall be off to check my Facebook account, which I have noticed is FLOODING me with messages. Gule Gule!

PS. And photos will have to come at a much later time. There are some real nice shots though.... :)

Labels: Travel, Turkiye