How to get out Urfa
Go to Harran (about 40 km south), and see some reconstructed beehive huts and the remains of the trading "fortress" around which they're situated.
Mardin, about 200 km to east, with its stonework architecture and Syriac Orthodox churches is also another interesting place to visit in the region.
The Ataturk Dam to the north of the city is a huge engineering project harnassing the waters of the Euphrates and irrigating former semi-desert lands around Urfa.
Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known temple in the world dating from 9,000 years B.C.
Visit villages in the region and see rural life virtually unchanged since biblical times. Go to Karacadag where it is still possible to see nomads in their yurts, and from where wheat first originated about 8,800 BCE
Take an excursion to Nemrut or Diyarbakir, both of which are within a day's reach of Urfa
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The Most Frequently Asked Travel Questions about Urfa
