Because Carole never thinks to put up pictures of Tarsus, here are some of the ones I took. I didn't know what to expect, but I ended up really enjoying Tarsus. The only foreigners are the teachers at the American College, and I was most definitely the only tourist in Tarsus. Here is Saint Paul's well. And it's generally accepted that this is the actual well that he would have used.
Tarsus is definitely the birthplace of St. Paul and the place where Cleopatra met Mark Anthony, but I'm more skeptical about it being the final resting place of Daniel. I checked online and there are at least seven other contenders. We went to look nonetheless, at the excavated tomb under what used to be a mosque. It's very rough around the edges as you can see from the picture- they had to stop because of lack of funding.
And here are some snaps of Tarsus life... just to give you a visual.
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