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We only stayed 1 night in Pamukkale, which is good enough to see everything, because it's a very small town.
We needed to go to Cappadocia from Pamukkale, which is over 300km, we divided it into a 2 day drive. We stopped in Isparta (the rose city) to shop rose products (cream and rose water only after all, nobody was interested in the strong flavor rose oil). Had the nicest lunch recommended by the local people, shopped a lot of local products like apricots dried figs, & nuts in local stores. It's actually the first time we felt the great warmth of turkish people. Turks are not so greedy and bad to me after Isparta & Konya.


Shopping mall in Isparta

We just stopped over to buy some figs, the shop owner offered us tea and being so nice and helpful






Isparta downtown

This is the most handsome guy I saw in Turkey, I think 90% of turks have beard, very arabic look: half moon eye brows, big nose and relatively shorter than european. All the teens're very thin but I think guys over 30 all have a belly, guess it's the diet problem: too much fat and sugar. Honestly I don't find anyone handsome, I think Italian and Spanish look much nicer.

There's this beautiful lake called Egirdir, we simply loved it. We walked through a local market in the way to the lake, people offered us so many fruit to try and take free of charge. Guess it's not a tourist area and they welcome new face. Just a second I fell in love with Isparta and Egirdir, it's so nice to see the humble and nice turkish on earth.

We stayed one night in Konya just as a stop over, if you have time you can see the 旋轉舞 there, because Konya's the origin of this dance. And you might be surprised to see how modern Konya is, I think it's probably the most modern city we ever saw in Turkey, totally different from Istanbul, guess it's more industrial.