Towers by Sarah

Me in front of the Qutub Minar, India.

                In India and Turkey, I saw lots of towers and some are the same and some are way different.  They are the same in their usage, but they are different in design and materials.

Leaning tower of Qutub Minar.

                The towers in India are all the same except the color and material. The color of a memorial tower, Qutub Minar, the symbol and national monument of Indi, in Delhi was red and white and the material red sand stone. The other towers in India usually have a room at the top with arches around it, like the minarets in the Taj Mahal and the other mosque minarets. They are for show.  They also have metal decorated on the top which is usually painted gold or is made of gold.

Outside the Blue Mosque, Istanbul. 
Cool Minaret!

Warm Lattes in front of cold
Galata Tower, Istanbul.

                The Turkish towers usually have a pointed roof and sometimes they don’t have any roof at all.  Some towers in Turkey are flat on the top because it had a deck on the top.  The towers in Turkey are made of dirty grey Italian marble,  grey granite, or red sandstone.  The roofs are usually black and they don’t have the rooms at the top of the towers like the Indians.  The only tower that I’ve seen in Turkey with a room at the top is the Galata Tower.  It has three stories on the top with windows and a wrap- around deck on top for tourists to look out over the city.  Mommy and Daddy went up there and had tea at the café and heard chanting from all the mosques at prayer time.

                In India and Turkey, the towers were very cool, but after a while I got bored of them because a lot of them looked the same, especially the minarets in India.  But the ones that I remember are not boring.