Miniatürk Miniature TurkeyAt the beginning of the summer we received a very special guest in the mail! Coming all the way from Maplewood Heights Elementary School in Maple Valley, Washington a world traveler named Flat Stanley came to discover Turkey. The story, written by Jeff Brown, is about a boy named Stanley Lambchop who gets accidentally flattened by a bulletin board. He discovers that the advantage of being paper-thin is that he can travel via envelope! School teachers are utilizing this whimsical story to teach children about different countries, and we had the privilege of being part of it.
Of course we would have loved to take Flat Stanley across the whole country, but limited by time and logistics, we settled for Miniatürk, a park that hosts miniatures of Turkey’s most famous destinations including, but not limited to, Cappadocia, Mardin, Nemrut Mountain, and the sites of Istanbul’s Sultan Ahmet like Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. Amongst a host of Turkish children out for field trips, we had a great time introducing Turkey to our special guest.
See photographs and journal entries of Flat Stanley’s adventure in İstanbul at Biraz Daha: Flat Stanley's Journey to İstanbul, Turkey .
