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Turkey Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Turkey
Classic Cappadocia
This is a top pick! ... To get here Mystery and I rode a red-eye bus service from Antalia to the teeny town of Goreme (pron. Goremay) in Turkey's heartland - Central Anatolia. Eleven straight hours on a very uncomfortable bus arriving at 6am is always going to turn messy and we ...
The Fairy Chimneys
This is a top pick! Eastern Turkey is nice enough and long-term travellers say it can be the most interesting part of the country. We are down to the last three months of our trip though and we still have a lot of countries to see, so we start to head back west. One place ...
Getting Stiffed in Selcuk
This is a top pick! ... there were calls from the shops and pushy sales tactics. Here's looking forward to moving away and seeing some 'real' Turkey again. We had a great time going through the museum and seeing some interesting sites. As well, the food's ...
Off the beaten track
This is a top pick! ... is a superhighway and travelling was quick. However, when we got to Izmir we descended into the most polluted city we've seen here in Turkey. We wanted to get through as quickly as possible, but that's not so easy. It was not a pleasant drive for a while ...
Asia in the morning, Europe in the evening
This is a top pick! ... no student discount. I had gotten such hefty student discounts in Egypt that the lack of foreign student discount in Turkey came as a disappointment. The only official student discount we got so far was at Dolmabache Palace (20ytl adults, ...
Anzac Cove: Dardanelles dawn service
This is a top pick! ... ride to Cesme was a classic from the outset, after I met some guys from Crete who were on a short holiday into southern Turkey. Alexander, Michael and George had a bottle of sweet wine and a small bag each and were very helpful in explaining some of the ...
Travertines of the gods
This is a top pick! ... have been an incredible spectacle back in Roman times. So if you are heading this far out of the way on your travels through Turkey it is worth a stop. Oh yes, bring enough money with you to cover your first night in town and the entrance fee. ...
Antioch and the First Christian Church
This is a top pick! ... crops. From here, I left Monday morning for the Syrian border to get a visa. I waited for four hours, as they needed to fax Damascus and get permission, then they stamped my passport and I was in Syria, after a couple of weeks in eastern ...
last stop....Istanbul
This is a top pick! ... ...a huge city...15 million people...spanning two continents, Europe and Asia...Topkapi, the palace...water taxis....traffic...modern Turkey... And I think I'm ready for a bit of "modern-ness". I'm somewhat challenged by the inability to ...
...I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done...
This is a top pick! ... , and Turkish trains have a far better reputation of being on-schedule. Once in Pamukkale we will begin a whistle stop tour of South Aegean Turkey. We'll hit some of the big sites as well as a few beach towns before we take a ferry to the Greek island of ...
Cruising the day away
This is a top pick! ... nbsp;us up the Bosphorus until we reached the Black Sea, and return. The Bosphorus is the stretch of water that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey. It joins the Sea of Mamara to the Black Sea. We were a bit early for the ferry ride so wandered ...
Hello Donkey, Money Money..
This is a top pick! ... anyone catching the carp will go blind. Consequently they appear to us to be the most pampered and portly fish in Turkey. I say, dynamite 'em. Built by Suleyman The Magnificent in the mid sixteenth century, the bazaar is eastern Turkey's largest and ...
A Sunken City And Oh So More..
This is a top pick! ... finally forced ourselves to move on. The only problem was where? Well, as you can probably guess from the title we chose Kas in Southern Turkey. We had planned to spend a few days in Kas but on arrival we made the snap decision to only spend 1 day as it ...
Walls and Thieves
This is a top pick! We decided we didn't want another long overnight bus journey and would spend the day looking round Diyarbakir. It's another walled town and they supposedly have cheap carpets there. Not that we needed any more. The downside was that we would have to ...
Plenty of çay but no cats
This is a top pick! There are a few things Van is known for. Van Golu - the large alkaline lake (apparently so much so that you can wash your clothes in with out soap!). Cats - cats with white fur and one green eye and one blue eye. But wait - there's more! They ...
Is This Heaven ?
This is a top pick! ... us up on it. So that's it folks. Not much more to say except shhhhhhh, don't tell anyone about Yakakoy or Palamutbuku. Next Pod, Kas - Turkey. Love, Nath and Kat. Ps. Congrats Jax and Matt on the great news. We're very excited for you ...
Ode to Oasis Overland - Oct-Dec 2004
This is a top pick! ... shocked - from gunshots, to wailing, to orange orchards - where some thought they were sailing (and ended up bailing - abort ship!) Turkey was next on our list, and all we thought about was getting pissed. The sites were amazing, the Votka was not - ...
Morgans Bad day
This is a top pick! So we arrıved ın Selçuk got off the nıght bus and after ıt drove off Morgan realızed he had left hıs favourıte hat (a blue baseball hat from Quıck sılver--hınt hıs bırthday ıs comıng up....) on the bus. Then on the way to our hostel ...
Boy Has This Place Changed..
This is a top pick! ... as well. A lovely little spot but I'm not so sure it was worth the pain. The Open Air Museum is one of Turkey's many world heritage sites. Essentially what the open air museum entails is a cluster of rock cut Byzantine houses, churches, chapels and ...
Olympos and the flaming Chimaera
This is a top pick! ... keep saying this but the cliffs and mountain ranges around made for some of the most spectacular scenery we'd witnessed in Turkey so far, which is certainly saying something - it keeps getting better and better. The change in elevation is probably about ...
She's About To Go Under..
This is a top pick! Welcome to Hasankeyf everyone ! Hasankeyf I have to say is probably the 2nd biggest surprise in Turkey for us behind the beautiful Ishak Pasa Palace. We had no real plans of coming here but had heard on the 'travelers' grapevine that it was one of the ...
Cotton castles
This is a top pick! ... menu for 17 lira. It turned out to be a very wise decision, because the home cooked meal was the best we have eaten in Turkey. Traditional lentil soup followed by vegetables (yummy), then saç (a traditional stew) all washed down by a bottle of local ...
Happy new year 2006 !
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last day in istanbul
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THE STORY OF A KNIFE - Istanbul to Trabzon
This is a top pick! Travel Information Istanbul - Trabzon price: 57 € duration: 1 h 40 min carrier: Turkish Airlines hints: buy the tickets some time in advance, it will be cheaper. just book the tickets online. don't go to a travel agency. you ...
Tourist-Free Turkey
This is a top pick! Finally after 2 days of cycling I feel that we're getting to the Turkey I've been wanting to see. Away from the crowds and the destinations listed in the travel guides. This is what I'm looking for. Sites are nice to see, but I would ...