by Dennis | April 16, 2016 | Travel Tips and Visiting Info
Good news for iPad/iPhone users! Select Bursa articles are now available at GPSmyCity! We’ve offered a couple of our most useful articles for publication on the GPSmyCity iOS mobile app. The GPSmyCity iOS app allows readers to download articles and walking tours...
by Dennis | April 13, 2016 | Featured Fotoğrafı, News and Events, Spring
We had some high hopes for the April 9-10 weekend. This month, Bursa is celebrating the 690th anniversary of the Ottoman conquest. We enjoyed these celebrations last year, and we were looking forward to watching the festivities again this year. Regrettably, the...
by Dennis | April 8, 2016 | Bursa's Delightful People
“In a typical year, I make three or four violins,” Can explained to me as we sat together in his workshop in Bursa’s Konak neighborhood. Hand tools littered his workbench, maple and spruce planks were neatly stacked on a floor rack, a picture of his mentor sat on a...
by Dennis | April 4, 2016 | Spring, Thoughts and Musings
A guest post by Matt Conley We were definitely in the mood to discover a good white water run suitable for kayaking. Friends had told us it might be possible on some of the fast-running rivers around Uludağ. So after a long time staring at the Bursa area on Google...
by Dennis | March 30, 2016 | Bursa's Neat Places, Nilüfer, See, Do, and Play, Summer
A guest post by Matt Conley Ayvaini Cave is one of Bursa’s lesser known natural jewels. Located about 2 kilometers south of Uluabat Lake not far from the town of Mustafakemapaşa, the cave was discovered in 1970 by three Spaniards and officially opened to the public in...
by Dennis | March 25, 2016 | Featured Fotoğrafı, Summer, Thoughts and Musings, Yildirim
A guest post by Matt Conley One of my passions in life is to dive into other cultures through travel and outdoor adventure. It was during my first camping and hiking trip with some Turkish friends of mine that my belief that outdoor adventure can play a role in...
by Dennis | March 19, 2016 | Bursa's Neat Places, Featured Fotoğrafı, Osmangazi, Spring
Muradiye Külliyesi is the social and religious complex commissioned by Sultan Murat II (1403-1451). Built in the early 1420s, Muradiye is on Bursa’s UNESCO World Heritage site inscription as one of the historically important locations in the city. The külliye consists...
by Dennis | March 18, 2016 | Eat, Shop, and Stay
Over the last few years, Bursa has become home to a large and growing number of Syrians. Many of them have come here to make a peaceful living until the conflict in their country ends and they can safely return to their homes. As they have immigrated to Bursa, they...
by Dennis | March 12, 2016 | Eat, Shop, and Stay, Spring, Summer, Yildirim
We love Turkish breakfast, and we’ve sung its praises before. We also stand by our suggestion that Cumalıkızık is probably the neatest place in the Bursa area to get an authentic, traditional Turkish breakfast in a genuinely Ottoman-Turkish village atmosphere. We...
by Dennis | March 8, 2016 | Travel Tips and Visiting Info
Recently, some friends came through town and mentioned that they would have liked The Best of Bursa to offer a little more information about using the Bursa public transportation system. As we’d like to make The Best of Bursa as useful and informative as possible, I...
