31 October:
Having overnighted at Beyşahir, we made an early start for Iconium (Konya). We arrived in Konya just after midday and began looking for the hotel we were going to stay at for the next three nights, the Dervish hotel. On asking directions from a man in the street, who had no English, he contacted one of the two brothers (Mr. Mehmet Ucar) who own the hotel, by mobile ‘phone. Within a matter of minutes Mehmet Bey was on the spot, jumped in the car and guided us to our destination. The centre of old Konya is the Mevlana Museum and the resting place of Mevlana, also known as Rumi, the founder of the mystical Sufi branch of Islam. The open mindedness of the Sufi way and the teachings of Shams-i-Tabrezi the 12th century poet and philosopher appealed to both of us. Sufi ideas were embraced by the Sikh Gurus for the their truthful simplicity.
1 November:
We visit the Konya Archeological Museum and see the important inscription on the stone from the site of Lystra as described in the Lystra web-page. Then it’s off to Aladdin’s Hill with its ancient mosque and the remains of the palace of Seljuk sultans.
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