Hamam (Turkish Bath)
Experiment variations for some experience and exploring research. Using a micropipette to give a bee either sugar or a salt water. You put a small drop of liquid on the stainless steel needle via the syringe (not in picture). The larger syringe has the odor you are presenting to the bee.
Again as explained in previous blogs the odor in this experiment is the condition stimulus.
If learning took place the bee will stick out its proboscis in reaction to the smell of the odor.
We had met someone at an artisan store in Bursa and as what has happened to us so many times here we were invited to visit this young women in engineering student. She was very helpful as she is enrolled in a English emersion course, so she can speak well and was a good interpreter for us. She invited us to her family home in a suburb of Bursa. She also said that she would take us to a Hamam or Turkish which is a place that we wanted to check out. We took about an hour bus ride through narrow streets and interesting areas. She met us at the exact spot that she wrote down for us so that we could give the directions to the bus driver. We went to her house (flat really) which was very welcoming. Right next store to their home is a large mosque, it is quite new compared to the ancient edifices we have seen. It is 18 years old. We went inside and it was overwhelmingly beautiful. You can see the pictures below with the mosaic tiles on the walls and columns. After a snack and some Turkish coffee we took another bus to the Turkish bath or Hamam. We went inside and paid for the basic bath, steam, a scrubbing and massage. It is very organized and systematic, I guess there is an age old tradition in this place built in 1555. You enter a large room that is round with a dome and a circular pool with hot water in the center. On the outside wall area there are small areas with benches and cold running water. You sit around and relax and you can go into the
hot pool. You stay in this room for about 1/2 hour and then you go to a smaller room. This is an area where you get scubbed and/or a massage. A man pours 2 consecutive cold buckets of water on your head, that shocks you and refreshes. Then you go into a individual large marble tube with cold water for about 15 minutes. Then you shower and get wrapped in towels. You will never be cleaner than after this experience. Women and men were in different buildings. Some other Hamans have different times for each gender.
The inside of a modern mosque in Bursa
The inside of the entrance way in the Hamam
Outside of the Hamam
Sign in front of the Hamam
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