Steps: Looking for meaning in Kars
Запись добавил News Armenia October 2nd, 2009 11:00 в раздел Новости Армении.
Fear. Prejudice. Centuries old uneasiness. Anticipation of the unknown. These are the first feeling when crossing the border into Turkey. Merhaba! Hello, Kars! Things turned out to be almost shockingly different than expected. No hostility, but amazing atmosphere of hospitality. We were welcomed with tea, cubes of sugar and traditional Turkish pastry – kadaef. Then, it was the time to walk around the old town of my ancestors (first mentioned as a town in the 9th-10th centuries), trying to catch the breath of time, of sad history…