My Visit to Turkey. The Blue Mosque

Inside the mosque you can see the prayer niche and big stair thing.

 

I went to the Blue Mosque in Istanbul and it was very nice. It was so big and so pretty and the inside was packed with visitors. All the ladies have to wear something on their heads to show respect and the men had to have long trousers. Everybody had to take their shoes off and carry them in a plastic bag. My mum carried my shoes because she is the best!

We had to take the shoes off because the carpet has to be clean for the people who pray there. The inside was beautiful to look at and the tiles have pictures. A lot of the tiles were blue because they thought it was a powerful  colour. The real name of the mosque is The Sultan Ahmet mosque, it is on Sultan Ahmet square near Hagia Sophia.

The rarest two animals ever. The white spotted Boo and his white spotted brother. Grrrrr! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Inside the mosque we saw a big stair case that the imam climbs to talk to the people, it is called a minbar.

The mihrab is the prayer niche to bounce the sound back. The columns were called elephant feet columns because they were big and strong to support the building.

Fat cats are everywhere in Turkey. LOL!!

 

Weird Foods: Fried Bugs

My dad has eaten weird foods. We see lots of weird foods, once we saw bats on a stick in Laos. They were little bats, the lady caught them with a net.

In Thailand we saw fried scorpion and spiders. In Malaysia we saw duck tongue, bills and feet. The weirdest food I hath ever eaten was baby octopus it tasted like squid, squid is one of my favourites.

Yummy Stuff in Sri Lanka

Food in Sri Lanka is yummy. This is my food in Sri Lanka . It is a hopper, in the middle is curd and tricle. Tricle is made from coconut palm syrup. Curd is yoghurt made from buffalo milk.

Sri lanka is an island south of India at the very tip.

Other Yummy Stuff in Sri Lanka

We ate chocolate rotis for breakfast, sometimes we had pancakes and at dinner we had banana milk shakes. In the milk shakes there was ice cream. Egg hoppers and egg curry were good too. We also had chocolate cake sometimes in Kandy. Next to the chocolate roti shop there was a sop that sold lots of stuff, sometimes we bought biscuits there and yogurts. They were really nice, especially when you dip the biscuits in the yoghurt. they were ginger biscuits.

I loved Sri Lanka. I loved going in the 2.5m waves in Mirissa. We saw 3m waves. We didn’t go in them though, they were too big for me. My Dad was too worried about my brother and I. We held baby turtles and saw blue whales and right wales in Sri Lanka

 

We Saw a Blue Whale in Sri Lanka

I have seen a blue whale in Sri Lanka . Blue whales are the biggest mammals in the sea .They don’t look blue, they look grey.

This is a photo of a blue whale in a museum in New York in the USA.