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30/01/2022

In Turkey you find a great deal of expertise in hair design. Besides the famous hair transplants, Turkish hairdresser do unbelievable jobs with hair extensions, hair dyeing and micro welding. If your hair is important to you and your looking for either a small improvement or a big change, consider a visit to Istanbul. In a country where reality shows looking for the best hairdresser are popular, you know you are in good hands....

Best hair salon in Istanbul for women

02/09/2021

Wauw…. ! Beautiful artwork from multidisciplinary artist . These are made in Urgup (Cappadocia). If you are there, you might spot more of her work….(for example )

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15/08/2021

*** Bodrum TIP ***

Going to Bodrum this summer? Make sure to reserve a table in Yalikavak. .kozhokaru is a true foodartist! Wouldn’t you just want to frame these plates instead of eat it? Do you recognize the inspiration chef Kozhokura took from the underwaterworld or ice rocks in the next pictures? (Swipe right).

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14/08/2021

*** BODRUM TIP ***

Going to Bodrum (Yalikavak) this summer? Be sure to stop by La Lara restaurant! Chef Kozhokaru is a true foodartist! You would just want to frame his plates instead of eating. Do you recognize (the melting) ice floes on the first picture? Or the underwater world on the third?

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13/08/2021

In retrospect Carl Honore’s words sound somewhat prophetic. “Sometimes we need a wake up call to alert us to the fact that we’re hurrying through our lives instead of living them. (…) I think for many people that wake up call, takes the form of an illness”, the author of the book In Praise of Slow stated in 2005. Well, 15 years later, it looked like COVID19 did just that. On a global scale. We’re sure many of you experienced the benefits of being forced out of the daily treadmill for a while. The trick now is, to maintain that lifestyle and not letting yourself get caught up again in racing through your day and ticking of your to-do-list. In other words, to live the good life, instead of the fast life! Well, what might be of inspiration is to visit and unwind at one of Turkey’s 18x slow cities. Check link in bio for your guide to these cities.

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09/08/2021

No Istanbul visit is complete without a hammam treatment! In fact, it might be your main purpose for coming to Istanbul. And that's not without reason. Turkey's bathing culture goes back over 2000 years. Many of the old rituals performed at the bath houses (hammam) are very much intact today. The time-honored, traditional hammam treatment involves a steam bath, exfoliating skin with a scrub, a body wash (or body mask) with hammam towels and often ends with tea....

We skip the touristic hammams in Istanbul. In our list you'll find the most professional and luxury (tradition-based) hammams in Istanbul.

12/02/2021

She was a Parisienne with a job in high-end fashion. Now, she is a wellness expert living in Marmaris, Turkey. There, Cyrielle organizes all sorts of wellness related activities, both for locals as for tourists. Follow Chokqu spoke with Cyrielle about her decision to move to Turkey, the beauty of Marmaris and the wellness lifestyle she adopted there. Of course, being a wellness expert…...

She was a Parisienne with a job in high-end fashion. Now, she is a wellness expert in Marmaris Turkey. We interviewed Cyrielle about....

12/12/2020

Are you looking to buy hammam soap? Is it going to be Moroccan black soap, the famous Aleppo soap or the original Turkish hammam soap? Once you start searching, you might realize the big variety of hammam soaps on the market. Only a few them however, are made of recipes that have been passed down for generations. These soaps have been used for even millennia, because of their acclaimed skin care remedies based on ancient time-tested (hammam) rituals....

Are you looking to buy hammam soap? This ancient old soap is being rediscovered and with it, its beauty secrets! What are they, how can they help you with your skin problems?

05/11/2020

At Chokqu, we love Uchisar. With its 60m high castle-mountain, that's the center of the town, it is such an enchanting little town. We think it is one of the nicer places to stay when you visit Cappadocia. Even though it is small, there are still about 120 boutique hotels the choose from. Remarkably, quite a lot of them are developed by French or Turks returning from France. [ 872 more words ]

Uchisar is great for exploring the region of Cappadocia. Check out 5x a dreamy cave hotel Uchisar to make your stay even more memorable!

16/10/2020

Did you know there are 18x slow cities in Turkey? These are not cities where people live in slow motion. No, people in here master the art of slow living. Because, as Canadian writer and journalist Carl Honore (of the book In Praise of slowness) states: In a world addicted to speed, slowness is superpower!

Would you like to visit one of Turkey's slow cities? Check link in bio for a list of the cities and all the tips you need on where to stay & eat and what to do & visit.

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11/10/2020

A beautiful new book for anyone interested in the pratices of wellbeing in the 21th century!

The Romans and Ottomans already new a thing or two about selfcare (Roman baths & hammams), but Be Well will take you on a journey into one of nowadays most innovative and (with all of us experiencing the challenges of COVID19 needless to say) important (!) industry of wellbeing. Read Be Well for a dosis of positivity and inspiration🤗

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