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Average Temperatures for Major Regions (IN CELSIUS)
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Apr
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ANTALYA
(South)
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10
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11
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13
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16
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20
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25
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28
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28
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25
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20
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15
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12
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IZMIR
(West)
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9
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10
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11
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16
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20
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25
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28
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27
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23
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18
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15
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10
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ISTANBUL
(Northeast)
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5
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6
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7
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12
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16
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21
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23
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23
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20
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16
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12
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8
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ANKARA
(Central)
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0
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1
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5
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11
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16
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20
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23
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23
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18
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13
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8
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What Happens if you loose your passport?
Please take a photocopy of
your passport with you and keep it is a different place than where
yo keep your passport.
Having a record of passport makes it easier to get new passport. (
this does not happen often but it is nice to be prepared
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Emergency Contact &
Special Dietery Requests
In case of emergency you can
always be reached on Meli's cell phone. 0532 345 9987
We can check e-mail every day at
melitour@unimedya.net.tr
Message can be sent to this e mail address.
Please check the hotel info for phone and fax numbers. In case of emergency, for us to reach
your contact back at home , please fill in the following chart and e
mail to
melitour@unimedya.net.tr
Food in Turkey is excellent. we are sure you will enjoy it thoroughly.
however, if you have any restrictions for food , please let us know in
advance
WHAT TO WEAR
Don't forget your swimming suits. A scarf for mosque visits will be handy,
also since we take our shoes when we enter the mosques and people's homes
and easy slip on and off type of a shoe will be more comfortable. The women
will need to wear a long skirt or long pants in the mosque .Through out the
tour shorts are O.K.
LAUNDRY
You can have laundry done in all the hotels where we have more than one
night stay. We generally arrange for a laundry for the group upon arrival to
Cappadocia .
MEALS
Turkish food has enough variety to meet every one's need. Vegetarian menus
are available. If special diet food is required we can arrange for that
easily.
EXTRA EXPENSES
Virtually everything on the tour is included except for your drinks. Your
daily average expenditure while on the tour will be about US $20 a day per
person (mostly for drinks and souvenirs), though your actual expenditure
could be far lower. People on shoe string budgets have spent as a little as
$100 during the entire tour, while others have spent thousands of dollars (
usually on carpets.)
PERSONAL CHECKS
If you want to make a purchase over $100 you can pay with your traveler's
checks . But cashing traveler's checks in a bank is expensive and not always
easy. Do not rely on traveler's checks for cash.
ATMs are available. US$ currency can be used through out the country. If you
need to change US$ to Turkish Lira, .you can do it at the airport very
easily. The rates almost all the same. Personal Checks are honored if you
should do a big purchase and are treated like cash.
CREDIT CARDS
Yes you can use your credit card in many places in Turkey but please remind
your bank or credit card organization that you are going to be in Turkey for
a while. Because for some reason the banks or credit card companies block
the card when they see purchase is made in Turkey
SHOPPING INFORMATION
This tour is quite hectic. So you will have very little time for shopping.
But amazingly people find enough time to shop .One of my groups had shopped
so much in the seconds that we had time for shopping we had a garage sale at
the end of the tour.
If you are interested in buying kilims and or carpets make sure you have
your dimentions and colors with you. Very few leave Turkey with out a Kilim
or a Carpet on these tours
KILIM, CARPET, TOWELS, FELT
However, the Turkish Carpets are so inviting it is very difficult to resist
the temptation. If you already have the bug for the Turkish,Kurdish and
Central Asian KILIMS you will find your self in heaven. If you have not yet
developed a taste ,this might be the place to get aquatinted with that
incurable bug.
PESTEMAL
In the Turkish Bath, the pestamal is used like a wrap around the body. We
will be able to buy the pestemals off from a loom
WOODWORK IMBEDDED WITH MOTHER OF PEARL
Gaziantep is known for this craft which used to be favorite art/craft of the
Ottoman Sultans. Mirrors,jewelery boxes, shelfs,chairs and many more
tempting and carriable pieces hand made in Gaziantep are available in the
souvenier shops.
BRASS WORKS
Very delicately carved trays, pots and shish kebab scewers and statuetts
will be nice Christmas gifts.
MINIATURE PAINTINGS
Replicas of Ottoman paintings are favorite shopping theme for most of
Melitour tour members. They are available only out side the Grand Bazaar in
Istanbul
SILVER JEWELERY
Authentic or replicas of old jewelery are available at few places along the
tour. Especially the jeweler at Ephesus has excellent examples of old
jewelry.
TEXTILES
Material with wood block prints, scarves with OYA, lace, suzanis
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