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views from the tower--Mosque of Suleyman the Magnificent in distance
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Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art
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Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art
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Hagia Sophia-Ayasofya: a mosque from 1453 until 1934
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Hagia Sophia: current building built by Byzantine Emperor Justinian in 6th century
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Hagia Sophia-Ayasofya
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Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art
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seen from our window
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Ararat was obscured by clouds, but the sun shone on Little Ararat, 12,782 ft.
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Phelypaea tournefortii
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Tragopogon coloratus
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Puschkinia scilloides
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Allium akaka
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Mosque seen from our picnic area
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Day 4. May 27. Adonis flammea, Little Ararat
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Adonis aestivalis, Little Ararat
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Orchis pseudolaxiflora and Primula algida with Tendurek Pass behind
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Day 5. May 28. The volcanic crater of Nemrut Daği
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Verbascum and beetle
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Solenanthus stamineus
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Day 6. May 29. "The Bitlis Circuit". Gypsophila elegans
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Day 7. May 30. Selchuk cemetery; near Ahlat; crater of Nemrut Dag in distance
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Gundelia tournefortii
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Onosma araraticum
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Glanville Fritillary
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Centaurea depressa
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vans parked below while we searched for Iris sari
