field trip to the land of love...

I'm off tonight on a long overnight bus to Konya in the south. A professor is leading a tour there over the weekend, so myself with one of my classmates will be tagging along. While Konya is most famous for being the city where Rumi, the sufi love poet, lived and died....I think we'll actually be focusing on the Seljuk remains of the city. (The Seljuks were (one) of the major empires that had defeated the Byzantines in Southwestern Anatolia before the Mongols and Ottomans came along.) Also we'll be making a trip down to Çatal Höyük, a Neolithic excavation and a World Heritage Site.

I'll be sure to charge my camera and take lots of pictures to share...