Day trips, food and the old city of Şanlıurfa: from local businesses, and a few ideas.
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Visit Göbeklitepe's sister site, about 46 km east, where more than 260 pillars are carved straight from the bedrock and a subterranean chamber holds upright stones and a human head emerging from the rock.
Home to most of the portable finds from Göbeklitepe, a full-scale walk-through replica of Enclosure D, and Urfa Man — the oldest life-sized statue of a human ever found. The site and museum together tell the whole story.
Urfa is one of Turkey's great food cities. Try çiğ köfte, smoky kebabs, and şıllık dessert, and start the day with a generous southeastern breakfast in the shaded courtyards of the old town.
Wander the spring-fed pools of sacred carp, the mosque courtyards and gardens, then lose yourself in Şanlıurfa's covered bazaar of coppersmiths, spice merchants and tea houses — trade much as it has been for generations.
Take a boat on the Euphrates from Halfeti, past the old village the dam half flooded and the minaret that still rises from the water.
Step inside the mud-brick beehive houses of Harran, walk its old city walls and see the ruins of one of the first Islamic universities.