Sunrise somewhere between Ankara and NiğdeRamazan is a month-long Islamic holiday, during which practicing Muslims let nothing pass their lips from dawn until sunset or the prayer calls that mark those times. At the end of Ramazan, is the three day long (often celebrated for a week) holiday called Bayram.
For Bayram, I went on a backpacking trip with the school's mountaineering club, Büdak, to the Ala Dağlar. We met at 6:30 pm Friday night at the club's room on campus. From there, 4 of us walked down to the bus stop about half a mile away. We took a public bus to Beșiktaș, where we got on a ferry for Uskadar. In Uskadar, Furkan called his father who came and picked us up with our large packs and drove us to the Harem bus station. At the bus station, we met Elias, from Kyrgyzstan, and all five of us piled onto the public tour bus to Niğde. That bus happened to have overbooked by six seats, so four people sat on the stairs and in the aisles and two people rode below in the cargo area. The rest of the group - 17 people and their packs - rode in an 18 seat minbus for the 11 hour drive.
For Bayram, I went on a backpacking trip with the school's mountaineering club, Büdak, to the Ala Dağlar. We met at 6:30 pm Friday night at the club's room on campus. From there, 4 of us walked down to the bus stop about half a mile away. We took a public bus to Beșiktaș, where we got on a ferry for Uskadar. In Uskadar, Furkan called his father who came and picked us up with our large packs and drove us to the Harem bus station. At the bus station, we met Elias, from Kyrgyzstan, and all five of us piled onto the public tour bus to Niğde. That bus happened to have overbooked by six seats, so four people sat on the stairs and in the aisles and two people rode below in the cargo area. The rest of the group - 17 people and their packs - rode in an 18 seat minbus for the 11 hour drive.
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