Eighteenth Post From Türkiye: An Afternoon in Beypazarı

Beypazrı is a town about an hour away from Ankara and is the perfect place to spend a Saturday afternoon.

Beypazrı is famous for it's...

Carrots! It's the carrot capitol of of Turkey!

We had some carrot Turkish Delight from this shop and it was quite nice! We bought some to take home with us. Jack also got some fresh carrot juice. To which he added pineapple juice when we got home. Still delightful though.

 Also famous for it's high quality natural mineral water. This is a spring where you can get some and a giant replica of the bottled stuff you can buy in stores.

 They have some famous foods from there. Jack got a kind of rice casserole and of course we had to have the famous 80 layer baklava.

 The town is also known for it's Ottoman style houses and textiles. We got a great table cloth and then later, I saw an old lady wearing one as a head scarf. Awesome! Dual purpose!!

We went to the Beypazarı Culture and History Museum. It is in a restored Ottoman style house and there are all kinds of fun activities you can take part in.

Get your fortune told with hot lead. Although I don't think it's really called getting your fortune told. Maybe it's more like warding against the evil eye. Anyway these people had a sheet over there heads at one point and I am pretty sure I didn't quite catch the significance of the whole procedure. 

 Do some Hittite style block printing. Truman made himself a most excellent T-shirt. However the ink will make your house smell like there is an old tire melting in it until the shirt gets ironed and washed. But still worth it!

 Make your own marbled paper. This is where I was taping the paint off the brush and not noticing that my face was getting as many spots as the dish. Jack and Truman found this to be hilarious. Even better was when Jack went to wipe away the spots and they just smeared so I had to walk around with blotches of paint on my face until I could find a bathroom. Love my boys so much.

 Here is my finished paper.

 On the first floor (second if we were in the US) they have it set up as a traditional house.

Sitting room with a little warming thing-ma-bob.

 And for your convenience a closet toilet right in the room. A fine example of an old fashioned squaty-potty.

 On the 2nd (aka 3rd) floor they have some looms set up with a lady weaving (see her head covering is kinda like our new table cloth!) and some traditional cloth you can buy.

It was a pretty awesome museum.

Other fun stuff from Beypazarı.

Jack found a map that highlights all of his favorite countries!!

 This is for you Trina. Plumbing store where you can get modern squaty-potties.

 And this is for my dad. Some Internationals on display.

 Some ladies making some Yufka. (Kind of like a giant tortilla)

 And Truman found a giant shoe.

I don't even have pictures of the silver shops and all the people giving us samples of the local candy. 

Just imagine if I did. This post would have been too awesome. Your mind would have been blown. So just count yourself lucky I was a lazy photographer that day.