Where To Stay?

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I hope you are having a good day. Today's topic is where to stay at the Bay of Edremit. I am usually going to talk about cheaper ones. Let's start.

There are many options for places to stay. If you are interested in staying in a traditional boutique hotel and eating organic foods, you can find the best ones. But you should be willing to pay more money.
If you are looking for cheaper ones but you still want to eat good food, you can find yours.

You can stay in "Turizm ve Otelcilik Lisesi Uygulama Otelleri". It means practice schools for students of tourism but they are also learning how to work in hotels, how to service, how to treat the guests of hotel and/or make money calculations.They are studying and learning at the same time. I stayed twice in these hotels, one time in Ayvalık and one time in Burhaniye. The food was good, the rooms were tidy and our school paid less than what the other hotels that we were going to stay in would have cost. It was comfortable. It's worth it to stay there.

You can also stay in boutique hotels, hotels, hostels or apartments for rent. It is up to your wallet and time that you will come. If you organize them before your arrival, it will be cheaper and easy to find rooms.

You can click on these links if you want to get more information.
Ayvalık Uygulama Oteli: http://www.ayvalikuygulamaoteli.com/
Burhaniye Uygulama Oteli: http://bubyo.balikesir.edu.tr/uygulama_tesisi/

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Cuisine Of Mount Ida

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 It has lots of food like you can eat in traditional weddings or holidays. On the other hand, there are foods that they used to eat and they still eat daily.
P.S. If you are hungry, don't read anymore.

   

There are many products in Balıkesir because it has rich soils. Many people work in farming jobs.

   

They use olive oil in nearly every food.

   

But they also use butter and sunflower oil.

   

It is common that they are good at husbandary so they can use lots of milk or meat and many other animal products.

   

There is a village culture in many parts of Balıkesir. So they can still marry and have a wedding celebration in the streets. There are lots of special foods which are only prepared for weddings or special days&events.

Here are the some of the special foods.

-Höşmerim (A dessert)

-Zeytinyağı (Oliveoil)


- Zeytin (Olive)


-Manyas Peyniri (Cheese of Manyas)



-Zerde (A dessert)


-Tirit (A meal)



- Susurluk Ayranı (A drink)



- Papalina (A fish meal)


-Lokma Tatlısı (A dessert)



-Lokma (A -kinda- meal)



-Kızılcık Şurubu (A syrup)


-Karadut Suyu (A drink)



-Kuzukulağı (A plant but we eat it.)


-Keşkek (A meal)


-Düğün Çorbası (A soup)



-Balıkesir Kaymaklısı (A dessert)



And the last but best one: Ayvalık tostu (A toast which has everything in it)



These made me hungry.
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Information About Mount Ida #2

Hello everybody!
   Our topic is still the same one: Facts and information about Mount Ida. Let's start!



   There are lots of small streams and more than thirty rivers in the area of Mount Ida. There are the most important ones: Zeytinli, Kızılkeçili, Güre, Kuru, Manastır, Ihlamur, İskele, Şahin.



   Scientist found more than 800 plants in the Mount Ida National Park. 77 of them can only be found in Turkey. 29 of them can just be found in Mount Ida's area.
   
   Every year, there is a traditional beauty contest in the Ayazma, a village of Mount Ida. It was the first beauty contest in history, so it is very important.

   There are lots of walking tracks in Mount Ida. Many people walk everyday to be healthy.
Mount Ida's oxygen level is so high that it counts as the world's top three places for oxygen.

   If you go and start walking around the walking tracks, you can see there are lots of shops where you can buy organic-handmade jams, olive oils, butters, etc...




   Also you can pick your own spices from the mountain. Marjoram is the one of the examples.

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Information About Mount Ida

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  In Greek mythology, two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida, the "mountain of the goddess". There are two parts of it: Mount Ida in Crete and Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of Western Anatolia. But our topic is the second one, Mount Ida in Anatolia.




















Mount Ida means Goose Mountain in Turkish. It is a mountain in northwestern Turkey, some 20 miles southeast of the ruins of Tray, along the north coast of the Gulf of Edremit. The name Mount Ida is the ancient one. It is between the Çanakkale and Balıkesir provinces.



Mount Ida is protected by Kaz Dağı National Park. And they can make a guided tour if you want.



Deer, wild boars and jackals are common at the area.



Wolves, lynx, brown bears and big cats once roamed there, but they disappeared because of overhunting.



Mount Ida is perfect for relaxing and refreshing, and also escaping from the exhaustive life.

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