Kayseri City and Mimar Sinan Museum: The Digital City Museum

Kayseri is a city located in the central Anatolian region, in Turkey, and is well known for its amazing economic growth and development.

This culture museum is combining contemporary concepts for displaying the urban culture, using screens to play the video production about each aspect approached by the museum. The videos, may be watched in Turkish or in English on widescreen monitors.

My experience in Ramazan

Ramadan it's a really interesting time in muslims countries.

For a whole month, people who follow the tradition, don´t eat, don´t drink also water, or not smoking...de sunrise to sunset.

At about 20.13 in Kayseri the call from the mosques give the signal and dinner with family, friends. What is known as Iftar. And the city start to be crowded.

Discover Turkish culinary culture

Turkey has a very rich culture, involving religion, family, history and food. They are joyful people and like to celebrate everything. And how can you celebrate better than with a big meal. So there are a lot of things we can say about Turkish food. The most important is the taste, and trust me when I say it tastes good. There is something for all tastes: spicy, sweet, salty, colorful and all sorts of interesting mixtures. There is a lot of meat involved in Turkish cuisine, and each time they hear I am a vegetarian they look surprised and say that Turkey is not for vegetarians. But that is not true, because I found a lot of dishes without meat that I love.

Turkish cuisine has most of its heritage from Ottoman cuisine. Briefly I can say Turks love food. There is a lot of bread, meat, sugar (in everything), there is always salad on the table (at least as an appetizer), tea (black tea),  Ayran (Turkish yogurt drink) and Turkish coffee.

Ağırnas Underground City

I’ve found out history is a very popular topic in Turkey, and Kayseri and its surroundings are loaded with historical proof and stories.  One if the most popular historical attraction is the Ağırnas area, which is included in the metropolitan area of Kayseri, but is a town with its own municipality. We had to take a bus to get there, because it’s about 25 km from the city center.

Bulgaristan/ Velingrad’tan Selamlar

Öncelikle bu projeye katılmamıza vesile olan tüm ‘’IYACA’’ ailesine teşekkür ediyorum.

Projede ilk haftamızı tamamladık.Bulgaristan Maceramız 01.07.2015 tarihinde başkent Sofya’da başladı. Bizi proje koordinatörümüz Dijiliana Sofya Havalimanı’nda güleryüzlü,samimi bir şekilde karşıladı. Sofya’ya adım atar atmaz hostel yolunda arabayla küçük şehir turu yaptık. Hostelimize yerleştikten yaklaşık 2-3 saat sonra Sofya mentörümüz Polina bizleri hostelden alıp şehir turuna çıkardı. 

Bulgaristan'dan Merhaba

Merhaba
Bu yazımı şuan Balkanlar'da yer alan  komşu ülke Bulgaristan'dan yazıyorum.
Balkan, Rodop ve Rila gibi dağlarla çevrili bir ülke. Rila Dağı üzerindeki Musala Zirvesi, Doğu Avrupa'nın en yüksek noktasıdır. Kuzeydeki Tuna Ovası ve güneydeki Yukarı Trakya Ovası da Bulgaristan'ın alçak ve verimli bölgeleridir. Son yapılan nüfus sayımına göre toplam nüfus 7 Milyon civarındadır. Ülkede Bulgarlar sayıca fazla olsa da etnik köken oldukça farklı. İklim olarak ise Bolu-Abant tarafları ve Karadeniz yöresine benziyor.

What is Ramadan?

I’ll try to make it short, I promise! Here it goes …
Ramadan (or Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. During this month Muslims worldwide fast to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad according to Islamic belief. The word Ramadan comes from the Arabic and it means scorching heat or dryness.

Ramazan is all over the city, this special celebration cannot be missed.

Cappadocia/Kapadokya

Cappadocia is a historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in the Nevşehir, Kayseri, Aksaray, and Niğde Provinces in Turkey.

Visiting the Governor’s Office

As a volunteer, I’ve got the chance to meet some important people from Kayseri. Volunteering is fun, creative and full of rewards, but if we want to keep it that way, we need some support from the local authorities. This EVS project that brought me here, is a premiere for Kayseri, and we need to create awareness about our project, "EUROPEAN YOUTH VOICE", and share some general information about our current activities and future plans.

Mr. Mehmet Emin Avcı, Mr. Serdar  Dobur - IYACA President and Miriam - EVS volunteer from Spain

Archaeological Museum, Kayseri

Although Kayseri isn’t exactly a city full of museums, it’s an important point on the historical map of Turkey.