Beginning of the travel in Istambul.First Philippe goes to the barbershop in the train station: a very kind barber who enjoys his job.Then Philippe goes to the west of Turkey,to Alpullu; near this town there will be a feast of Turkish wrestling, something like Greco-Roman wrestling but the body of the fighters is oiled with olive oil.Return to Instanbul.Philippe visits first Hagia Sophia , a Christian Church constructed in 537 which is now a museum and then goes to the Blue mosque , constructed between 1609 and 16l6 where he listened to the imam of the mosque calling the Muslims to the pray. Philippe pays a visit to the ferry on the Bosphorus.A travel by train (about ten hours) to Cappadocia: the place where the houses and monuments are carved in the walls of the mountains.Philippe meets a very kind family who shows him it's cave house and it's garden (they grow grapes) and also a 1.200 years old chapel with Christian paintings. and finally he drinks with them the famous Turkish coffee.The travel goes further crossing by train the Kurdistan til the lake of Van and the crossing of the lake by ferry.
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