Diving Into Different Cultures - Austria visits our Turkish Partners

A small Austrian team - Beate Hittinger and Martin Frischauf - both with their partners - took the topic of our project seriously and visited their partners in Sanliurfa during the Easter Holidays.



And that visit was a real highlight of the project!

Knowing Turkey from various visits we were aware, that this part of Turkey would be a very special one.

Far away from the touristic summer clubs along the Mediterrenian coast, Sanliurfa offered not only fascinating history but also friendly and open minded people!

It is hard to to present this intensive visit in only y few pictures, but we will try!
















Visiting Sanliurfa, Balikli Gol

With a lot of special fish, which you can feed - but you are not allowed to catch them ;-)

The story goes that burning coal was turned into fish....

Not far from that place is the cave, where Prophet Abrahams was born...













A view from the castle showing the Mevlid Halil mosque...
















The market places are very mysthic and rich in agricultural products from the area.

Many children have to work here in their spare time to earn some extra money for their families...











...Market









scenes...






































Monday we visited Ismetpasa School.

It was incredible, how exciting this was!

We made a little presentation about Austria,
















...taught the children how to peck Easter Eggs,

















exchanged presents,
















saw a nice dancing show...


















In a way we felt like holywood stars, because the children
didn´t want us to leave their school and ran after the cars...

















Left Sanliurfa to visit a sunken city...








































Were shown around in an area with incredible history...

Houses with natural air condition...








































The oldest university of the world - Harran

















Recently discovered monoliths - incredible 11500 years old...

Göbekli Tepe















Were invited to Mustafa´s little village - KARA KECI
















...visited the small school - one class































Were invited in Mustafa´s house to a fantastic Kurdish meal...
















Saying good bye to Mustafas family...













What a pity, that our other project partners did not take the chance to join the visit!!