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the original airport hotel, minus the seatbelt signs and plus a lot more camels.
means a roadside inn along ancient trade routes where merchant caravans could rest, trade, and shelter their animals overnight.
from from persian karvan (caravan, group of travelers) plus sarai (palace or building) — literally a palace for caravans, built by the thousands along the silk road from persia to anatolia.
free staysmany offered lodging free for three days
design logicthick walls, one gate, courtyard for security
peak networkseljuks built one roughly every 30km
still standinghundreds survive across turkey and iran today