Konya - City of Rumi
Konya is a city I would like to go to for a long time but it is not a kind of city.
Maybe I bought it the first time in my life the day before my birthday gift. My girlfriend organized a weekend trip to Konya as a birthday gift. I can say that for me it is a shocking gift in a serious sense. When I was doing various plans for the weekend I found myself and an Saturday morning at the check-in at the Sabiha Gökçen airport myself.
Approximately fifty minutes flight to Konya airport. Konya has a small airspace like our other Anatolian cities. But right next to it, a new and big international terminal was built and I think they will raise this summer.
We started our journey from the airport to the city center by giving $ 10 to Havaş. After approximately 45 minutes of bus journey we reached the city center. We arrived at the Hich Hotel where we will walk about 15 minutes walk around the Alladin Tepes which Havas leaves. The hotel has a very nice location opposite Mevlana Turbine, just as it is mentioned in the web site. When you come in from the hotel, you are greeted by a nice and profound ney melody. After the reception hall you will find a small reception desk. Firstly, a short narration about mesnevi philosophy is made by combining the brief information with the goods in the hotel. After getting information about the places and times to visit on the city map, we got the information about the most important part for me, "where and what to eat". The design of the odan was a stylish concept formed by the mixing of modern and old style. The furnace had everything from refreshments to needs. Five minutes after entering the room they brought a birthday cake with a candle on top of a cake. The receptionist would have heard that we were talking about, they made a stylish gesture with a subtle idea. In fact, the quality of service was revealed at that time.
Soon after we settled down in the room and changed our place, we lost our time to the city. We were severely hungry when we showed it at 1300 and did not have breakfast in the morning. We went to Tiriti Mithat, which is nearest to us as we were in our list, to eat tirit. When you return to the Aziziye street from Mevlana street and you walk in the narrow street behind the İş bank street, you will immediately be dismissed. In any case, the environment is also showing you who you are. It was exactly the parents' day that we arrived at exactly the noon hour (I recommend you to set yourself up for it and go there around 14.30). Do not expect a special table for you because it is not a very big place. Four-person tales are likely to share with people you do not know. About 5 minutes after ordering we arrived without our order. The casserole covered with six pies is served with large pieces of meat in the cabinet and on top with plenty of parsley. As it is cooked with broth, the taste of the water in the moth is very beautiful. I was a carnal personality did not seem to me heavy, but based on my girlfriend I say a little heavy on some people. Under normal conditions, the ratio was also famous, but we could eat there but we could not stand the crowd and we decided to come back later.
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| Tirit |
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| Mithat's Tirit |
We started from Mevlana's tomb and museum after enjoying our carnation. From the moment you enter the contents, the weather slowly begins to wrap you up. You enter into the turban of Mevlana after the goods, equipment and information that are exhibited in the small rooms surrounded by the glass and provide a better understanding of the mesnevil philosophy. Despite the fact that the places are stone, they are still getting dressed in. Inside you can find many different objects, from various manuscripts to special clothes. But more importantly, the mystical weather there is taking the person seriously to other places, or at least I can easily say it is to us.
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| Rumi's Mosque |
We started to look for a place to sit a little while to warm up after a detailed walk, but unfortunately it is not possible to find a café-style place. We have tried to digest a bit more by talking to ourselves, as we warmed ourselves and ourselves as we sit on one of the small and sympathetic tea quarries nearby. After a little further tour of the city center, we returned to our hotel to relax and gather power to show the sketch of the evening. Because of the winter, the night was getting dark early and our unfortunate rain was long and it was raining in Konya, where it was not raining.
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| Rumi's Mosque |
At the Mevlana Cultural Center, the whirling ceremony is on display every Saturday night at 20:30 in winter time and at 21:30 in summer time.
We ate our dinner at the Mevlevi Sofrasi, which the hotel staff recommended and did not regret to try. After we had eaten meat pita, lamb tandır, wedding pilaf and okra soup, we went out to go to the tummy abdomen. If I need to give a brief information about meals, the okra soup from Konya's famous dishes is not exactly what I expected. It was no different than a normal gumbo meal. Besides, I can not say that I liked it before as a person who had eaten lots of bread outside of Konya, but I told him that the meat I ate there was meaty bread. I might as well have tasted all the dishes until we got mixed up and cracked. I would not go there and think about eating. I usually prefer authentic places in the city and although the standard restaurant concept is here, the cuisine is really satisfactory and as good as recommended. You can also enjoy the prices comfortably without any normal anxiety.
After we had eaten our food, we started to walk to the Mevlana Culture Center, a little outside the city center, which is a 15 minute walk from our hotel.
The MKM is a newly built place with a capacity of about 3000 people in a round position. I was also worried that we would be able to see exactly where we were sitting exactly because it was round. F and G blocks are the best places to see. I suggest you not being too low. Because watching from above allows you to relax the whole area. Everything was beautiful, but if you go in the winter, the coat may not be enough while you are sitting inside. I can say that even though it's partially full to me, it's not enough for girlfriends and people around.
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| Sema show |
I do not want to tell you about the show of whirling ceremony, but it is a show, a worship that you can find many different spiritual pleasures that you can not follow. Of course, if we can be a society that warns at the beginning of the show, and already knows how to use the flash that every logical person can think of. Unfortunately, we can not learn it if it is a theatrical performing arts. I do not know what the whirling dancers feel if we think that the flashes were not missing from the whole show throughout the show, and that even bothering us seriously.
After approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes of demonstration, we ended the day by getting a room exhausted and finished. We had to rest at the end of the day lasting without stopping and ready for tomorrow.
In the next and last days, we started to visit other places in our list by leaving our room after the breakfast which my hotel was described as nice and sufficient and leaving our belongings in the custody room of the hotel.
We started by going to the small square where we saw both Şems-i Tabrizi's mosque and turban. In fact, since it is not known exactly where Sems died, there is no corpse and grave, but a tomb has been symbolically constructed. The Shams-i Tabrizi Mosque is not much of a big mosque and the mausoleum is in the mosque. After we left there we went to Alaaddin Hill, the first known artificial hill in the center of Konya center, and we went to the mosque side there. It was a very old, slightly flat and unassuming glass of standard mosque construction. It has already been closed for a long time due to lack of care and after a long restoration the worship has been opened. As it is completely parked, you can walk around the mosque and watch Konya a little higher. After taking a look at the stairs of the hill overlooking the tram stops, we toured the square with the Karatay Tile Museum and entered the museum. This place, which was previously meander, is now used as a china museum. There is a small pool inside the madrasa architecture and various rooms around it. The roof of the building is shaped like a dome and covered with a beautiful finish. Thanks to the works and explanations in the interior, you can also learn about the history of tile and the structure and functioning of the Seljuk state. It is much colder from the outside because there is no heating inside. After leaving the Karatay Museum, we went to the Ince Minaret Medresey with the former name of İnce Minare Museum which is 15 minutes away from the walking distance (entrance fee for these two museums is 3,00 TL). The exterior architecture is very nice and varied in my opinion. The interior of the building is like the Karatay Madrasa, but it is slightly larger and wider. You can find many stone statues, Seljuk tombstones, period door patterns and symbols. I do not want to lengthen the details of the museum's history by giving too much information. After that, we came to Hacı Şükrü, where we will have a small kebab at a small glass shop on our way. However, it is not so easy to find it because we do not write street and street names in Konya most of the time and we walk in a rainstorm despite the address, but fortunately we could find the place after passing through twice.
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| Karatay Madrasah |
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| Karatay Madrasah |
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| Minareli Madrasah |
I can say that we went with great curiosity as we both searched and offered it from the hotel. For someone who is already meaty like me, I can say that Konya is a blessing. There is a furnace and only a few tables in the ground floor of the place, but you are encountering a huge place down the road. They take the order in grams. When the waiter came to order, I gave him a 400 gr bakery order but persuading the waitress to order was more difficult than placing the order. Talking with the waiter after placing an order:
Garson : Abi usually 100 gr per person is enough, I think you do not say much.
I : You only want us to bring 400 gr.
Waiter: Your brother is over 400 gr.
I: I want 400 gr my dear brother you will not come more than I will say more I will say that I want a look so I will not have a problem.
Waiter: Well, I told you. You know. (With a strange expression on the face)
Even after my waiter left us, even though my girlfriend even knew me about the food, he was not anxious. Beside the meat, we had plenty of buttermilk and buttermilk, and after we came to the puddle, we got beautifully dressed six and warm pide on top. Indeed, I can say that we ate a bakery kebab that was so tasty and beautiful, deserving of its name.
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| Konya's Tandır |
On the menu there was a dessert named as kadayif and Konya's unique hair dessert. We chose between the hair for what we have not tried before, but we both dislike it. After eating sweet red, drinking our coffee and resting for a while, we were getting ready to stay full so we realized that no one else but us has left and picked up all over. When I looked at the clock, it was 17.10, but later I asked and learned that it closed at 17.30. The closing time was early due to the cafeteria. The venue was nice and the food was delicious, but I can say that the price is expensive by Konya standards. I think it might be more appropriate as someone who knows meat prices, but of course this is the preference of the business.
After fighting with rain and roads all day, we returned to our hotel by stopping at the latest souvenir shops and taking our Mevlana candies. As souvenirs, all stores have similar products but at least I can say that there are many products with high diversity and interest for tourists. We can say that almost all the products are made by a company and given to the market. Later I learned that I built it in China and sold it here. There were only two places where handcrafted products made by the students of Konya Fine Arts High School were sold. But I still can not be sure I do not have a lie. These two shops are the narrow shops that are close to tea cups among the makers at the back of the Mevlana museum.
After we returned to our hotel and picked up our gear, we started to wait for a taxi. We preferred Gelikken Havaş and paid 20 TL per person 10 TL. I talked to the hotel in the morning and asked where the helicopter was from. Although it was not so bad for us as an hour, we needed to get to Havaş from a place a bit far from the center and 20-25 minute walk to our hotel. Instead we paid £ 35 with one of the taxi cabs that the hotel was contracted with and we arrived at the airport in 20-25 minutes without being convicted of the bus or losing an hour on the bus.
I was complaining about the torrential downpours that lasted for two days when I took the taxi to the airport. The taxi driver gave me the answer "" Abi is at your hotel number. If there's a drought like this again, I'll call you back. As the people of Konya, ticket money was '' from us.
Briefly to get an overview. We like Konya very much and once in the summer we want to visit the caravanserai, monastery and other places to see around by car. Konya is an inexpensive, nice and very organized city with its meals. If the weather is nice, I think 2 days is enough for your visit to the center. I will definitely recommend Hitch Hotel for those who will be leaving, you can already read comments from booking.com or tripadvisor.
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| Hich Hotel |
