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archaeologist tour guide Turkey
Archaeologist offering small
group and private guided
Turkey Tours
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 Tolun
Cerkes
Aşağı
Mahalle, Gedik Sokak No. 57, 50240 Nevşehir, Turkey
e-mail:
info@fruitarian.net
phone: + 90
532 3110115
Attributes:
Speaks fluent Turkish, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian
and can communicate in Chinese (Mandarin) and German. Can conduct
tours in every region of Turkey. He has worked as a tour guide for
various tour operators and has traveled extensively with American,
European, Canadian, Japanese and Chinese groups in their own
language. Tolun, has an E-class driver's license and has an
unblemished driving record. He considers safe driving on Turkish
roads is one of the most important aspects of his work. If you
choose a tour conducted by Tolun, he will pay attention to every
detail, and will make certain you receive the best value for your
time and money.
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Education:
Studied Archaeology and Philology at the University of Ankara, Studied at Iowa
State University; Iowa City, Iowa, (USA), Studied at Omsk
State Pedagogical University; Omsk, (Russia)
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Experience:
Started to conduct tours, in 1983 performed over 500 tours, traveled over
300,000 km, He worked for more than 20 travel agencies, including, Cox & Kings,
Kuoni, Marmara, I Viaggi Del Ventaglio, Deren Koray Travel etc., conducted
archaeological, cultural and religious tours.
Organizations:
An active member and supporter of Greenpeace in Turkey. Is on the translation
team and acts as an interpreter during some of their projects in Turkey.
Personal info:
Lives in Istanbul. He is a vegetarian but sometimes in
summer while traveling he also keeps a
fruitarian diet which is a diet
consisting of eating only fruits and nuts from the trees. He was born in
Istanbul and grew up in Ankara. He sometimes lives in a town called Nevsehir which is
in the Cappadocia region in the very center of Turkey. In his free time he does
body building and take walks in the valleys or works on the restoration of his
old 19-room Cappadocian cave house (consisting of both caves and regular
rooms), transforming it into a small boutique hotel.
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Cappadocia, Guiding a
Canadian group in Goreme open air museum |
Priene, Explaining
The Athena Temple |
Pergamon, a private
tour with Japanese clients, drinking wine in the temenos of Hadrian
Temple |
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Explaining
events of the ancient Hippodrome of Constantinaple |
Chicago airport, guiding a Turkish businessman,
in USA |
At Perge, in
the ancient Pamphilia region, near Antalya, guiding an American couple |
Ephesus explaining the bilingual
Greek and Roman inscriptions |
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Giving lecture
to a French group in Priene theater |
Indianapolis,
USA |
Ephesus
Explaining The Statues Of Couretes Street |
Guiding a
Russian group in Topkapi Palace in Istanbul |
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Chicago
Airport |
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Istanbul, Explaining Biblical Scenes depicted on the mosaics
of the ancient Church of St. Saviour In Chora, to an Italian
Group |
An
old picture, during a wedding party |
At the ancient stadium,
in Perge |
In Ephesus Guiding A
French Group |
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