05.24.2011
Personal:
-Pamukkale means “cotton fortress” made of calcium deposits; man-made calcium deposit pools for tourists to pretend to be in the real thing; played with stray dogs/puppies
-Hierpolis – city located in the valley above Pamukkale pools, yet still in the valley of another set of mountains; contains the largest/most extensive ancient cemetery because people would come to Pamukkale to be healed but died instead; Plutonium temple (God of the Underworld?)
-Anatolia Restaurant lunch: pita bread with lentil soup and some other vegetable mixes; boiled mushrooms, and fresh fruit with ҫay for dessert J; serenaded by a musician playing a Baǧlama with a parrot on the scroll; a guy in another tour group said hi because he lives in Camarillo and is a Cal Lu grad
-Temple of Aphrodisias – American/Turkish-American excavation team from NYU; mock-temple put up by archeologists because the originals are in the museum next door (protection from earthquakes and erosion); early Bronze Age remains on the other side of the Acropolis theatre
-Antalya – opium flowers for medicinal purposes; first glimpse of Mediterranean Sea (visible from our hotel window); Antalya airport is the 2nd largest to Istanbul in Turkey; dinner on balcony of hotel overlooking city; walked through streets of downtown (another rally, but this time with Turkish flags and not soccer jerseys; celebration about sending young men to the army)
Research:
-Turkey has 82 provinces with province capitals of the same name
-Hyper-reality – man-made Pamukkale pools; replica statues in place of where the original should be
-Eastern music uses quarter tones that are not typically written but passed down traditionally; Atatürk westernized Turkish music by “exporting” musicians to France and Germany to learn classical music techniques
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