First stop was "Ataturk's House." It's a museum where this city proudly displays a house where Ataturk, the founder of this country, stayed a few times in his visits here.
Next to Ataturk's house was a home which wasn't so blessed by his presence and has been left to disrepair.
They call this the "Big Clock." It's old, but I don't know the details.
Then we went to the ethnographic museum where they had an example of a tent used by nomads 2 centuries ago. Reportedly, when you rolled down the walls and door of the goat-hair tent, it had special properties that kept out snakes and scorpions. Since goats quickly destroy vegetation, the main animal that they keep later became sheep instead of goats. I'm rather glad of this fact because reportedly lamb tastes much better than goat meat.
This picture doesn't do justice to its size, but this an entrance to the largest mosque in all of Turkey. You can see it from almost any point in the city.
The interior greatly resembled the famous Blue Mosque, with the main difference being a lack of mobs of tourists. Who needs to go to Istanbul to see 500-year-old mosques when you can come here and see one only 30 years old, and wander around as much as you want?
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