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Caravan inspiration14 days cycling Sufi to Konya, Mevlana Rumi's shrinecycling caravan Every year in autumn we cycle with a group of cyclists from Yalova to Konya. After the Sufi Trail, we cycle on the Mecca Trail from Konya onwards. If you are joining, this page will...
Don't worry about the future, it hasn't arrived yet. Live in the present and make it beautiful.Not so long ago I walked the Sufi path. This is the route from Istanbul to Konya, with a length of 801 km. And there are Lycian and Carian trails. The Lycian trail is one of...
(Picture: 40 days of hiking from Istanbul to Konya. Up to 35 kilometers a day. The children are great at it!!) As I write, I'm being rocked from a...
Dancer and Performance Artist Medicinal, Creative Movement Instructor, Bodywork Therapist, Whirling Dervish He was born in Istanbul,...
With great pleasure, we share the cycling report of Matjaž Dolenc the first cycling group on the Sufi Trail Cycling the Sufi Trail – a short report...
Strong in humbleness, sweet in humour, wondrous in nature and ways of life. This journey tells the story of hospitality and hearts that...
We are Audrey and Eloy! Together for more than 13 years, sometimes nearby, sometimes far from each other. Both of us got to learn some...
The Sufi Trail We walked already before we started the Sufi Trail on some other Paths, but we felt almost immediately a huge...
Bansuri to Rumi Bansuri artist Kees van Boxtel Played in every Çay Evi @ Sufi Trail A Musical documentary of Dutch Bansuri...
My experience of Turkey was limited to a stopover on the runway in Ankara for refuelling and a week on the beach in Fethiye. But as...
Ooit, toen ik nog Turkologie studeerde in Leiden, droomde ik van een paardentocht dwars door het Anatolische hartland. Eind juli...
Early in the dark shimmering of the Istanbul morning glow, we gathered around IDO ferry port at Yenikapi. Güneş Öztürk persuaded us to...
Just a little overview of the journeys we were so lucky to have had already: 2016 Iris and Sedat explore for the first time 2017 We mark with Huseyn Sari from the Phrygian Trail 2018 From Emirdag to Konya, with Joke, Leendert, Erhan and Marianne 2019 We cycle with...
Life is like ice cream, Parendem. You go to the ice cream shop. You ask: “give me all the tastes you know”. With closed eyes, you...
In army cadets; I was the biggest whiner when it came to weekend excursions that required strenuous expeditions in southwestern...
NatI’m Natalia, a writer in VANCOVER, canadaBIOGRAPHY – NATALIA MIHAIIT WAS A WEDNESDAY, THAT I CAME INTO THE WORLD. I KNOW THAT WITH CERTAINTY ON THAT SPECIFIC DECEMBER 29, IN BUCHAREST, ROMANIA; I LOOKED IT UP. GOOGLE IS WONDROUS IN THIS REGARD.IT WAS VERY COLD AND...
Hello Sufi Trail lovers, My name is Günes, and I’m the editor of the Turkish edition of Sufi Trail guide book. Between 8-15 June 2019, we had a lovely Sufi Bike Tour from Yalova to Bilecik. This was my first long distance bike tour and now looking back I realize there...
Terie Leijs wrote the book: "Uncle you need petrol in the tank". The book is in Dutch and contains beautiful pictures that give you a...