what i like about being in this small town was that although it's very touristic, there were lots of souvenir shops like every other touristic towns, but it's a very lively town of local people. i mean, it's like you could sense that there were lives of the locals running daily errands. comparing to when i was in small towns in europe, like toledo in spain for example, it's like we wondered where were all the local people, specially the young people. it's like we can imagine all the youth getting out of the town, doing something greater in bigger cities. but here somehow i sense like although it's a small town but people are content being here. there were teenagers working on some shops and what i thought was like, oh maybe on the weekend when they're not at school they help their parents with their business. and the cutest must be when we encountered this little girl (with her friends) selling bracelets (seventh picture) and she told us in her cute english that she made them all herself, and we decided to bought one just as an appreciation. and she was being very shy when i asked to take her picture. then there was an old man in a shop (second picture) where we bought some turkish tea who told us that once he met our former president. then we also had our best turkish meal here in a small restaurant, the least touristic one, run by a local family of three. all of this kind of interactions are much better souvenirs from travels than any kind of things we bought.
