Tours and Trips

The Study Abroad Office co-ordinates the Welcome and Orientation Program for Exchange and Visiting Students. Exchange Students are met at the airport by METU Host Students. For the first few days these Host Students are available throughout the day to help new students settle in, make telephone calls, use the bank and other facilities, and in general, learn how to get around the campus and the city. The office also arranges tours of Ankara and study tours to nearby historical sites. To get a broader perspective of the culture, they are also taken to the village and small towns to see the contrast in life.

                                    At a party with Host Students..

At a reception and being interviewed for the Radio.

September

During Orientation, Exchange Students attend Seminars about Modern Turkey and take tours of the Campus and historical sites of the City

Lake Eymir

Exchange and visiting students spend the day at METU's Eymir Lake.
 

Touring Ankara

Visiting Anitkabir (Ataturk's Mausoleum)

Visiting a traditional Ankara house and small shops around Ankara Citadel,
the old part of the city

October

Each year students go on an overnight trip to Göreme (Cappadocia), the region of "Fairy Chimneys", underground cites and cave churches

Fresco from a cave church in Cappadocia

Fairy Chimneys
 
 

Exchange students riding a camel
 

An Exchange Student tries to
shape a vase at the Potters.

Visiting  the Underground Cities

November

We try to show our visiting students different aspects of life in Ankara

Students  attend a session of the Turkish Parliament and visit with parliament deputy and administrator.

Turkish Parliament

<
Students are  welcomed by the Parliament deputy and administrator. Students had a chance to ask questions and later were shown into main hall where they were able to observe a session in process.

They attend a performance of the "Dance of the Millennium"
at the State Opera and Ballet.
 

December

 

Mevlana's Museum 

Whirling Dervishes

Each year students take the bus to Konya to see the annual Whirling Dervishes Performance and visit Mevlana's Museum
 

Spring

Students visit a village in the Spring.
Here, students are being served village
bread by this village woman.

Students also make independent travel on weekends. 

 In the Spring or during the Summer Session, students are taken on special tours of more Eastern parts of  Turkey.

Students and their instructor are given a "lecture" by a village woman on the care of handwoven rugs.
Erciyes Mountain, Kayseri.