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Is This Heaven ?, Yakakoy / Palamut, Turkey travel blog

Is This Heaven ?

A travel blog entry by natandkat

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... 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, No mans land..., Turkey travel blog

Ode to Oasis Overland - Oct-Dec 2004

A travel blog entry by antandrel

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... 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, Selçuk, Turkey travel blog

Morgans Bad day

A travel blog entry by janda

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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.., Goreme - Cappadocia, Turkey travel blog

Boy Has This Place Changed..

A travel blog entry by natandkat

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... 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, Olympos, Turkey travel blog

Olympos and the flaming Chimaera

A travel blog entry by technotrekker

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... 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 ...

Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

Istanbul

A travel blog entry by lraleigh

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Living the Life of Oz, Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

Living the Life of Oz

A travel blog entry by shyoungstr

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Today I met up with Oz again, jumping at the opportunity to go with him to his fancy sports club and get in a workout. After a fast paced four mile run, he put me through a leg workout. Which back in LA would still hurt but nothing compared to what I ...

Prince Island, Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

Prince Island

A travel blog entry by shyoungstr

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I woke this morning prepared to hit the road. I made a beeline for Oz's office, where I housed my luggage; I was getting good at this particular route. After some chatting, Oz encouraged me to take advantage of the day and go see Prince Island, a must ...

Blue Cruise, Fethiye, Turkey travel blog

Blue Cruise

A travel blog entry by shyoungstr

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In Selcuk, I pre-booked a three nights, four day cruise from Fethiye to Olympus. The next four days were spent on a wooden boat with 13 other travellers, including two girls from Quebec, four friends from NZ, two other Aussies, a family from Santa Cruz ...

She's About To Go Under.., Hasankeyf, Turkey travel blog

She's About To Go Under..

A travel blog entry by natandkat

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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, Pamukkale, Turkey travel blog

Cotton castles

A travel blog entry by guykb

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... 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 !, Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

Happy new year 2006 !

A travel blog entry by yellowdragon

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last day in istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

last day in istanbul

A travel blog entry by yellowdragon

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THE STORY OF A KNIFE - Istanbul to Trabzon, Trabzon, Turkey travel blog

THE STORY OF A KNIFE - Istanbul to Trabzon

A travel blog entry by yellowdragon

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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 ...

All the Key Sights, Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

All the Key Sights

A travel blog entry by shyoungstr

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Today I reconnected with Ehran for a full day tour of the important sites, strolling along Istaklal Cadessi near Taksim Square we entered into an old cathedral, Galata Tower, Sultanhemet aka the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sofia and Topkapi Palace. The day ended ...

A big day of sightseeing, Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

A big day of sightseeing

A travel blog entry by guykb

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Well, today we set off to Sultanahmet, the ancient part of Istanbul for a spot of sightseeing. It's always possible to overdo these things, especially for Maggie and Georgie who are not wild about monuments etc in the first place. We found the spice ...

Travels in Turkey (a.k.a the chicken place), Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

Travels in Turkey (a.k.a the chicken place)

A travel blog entry by sarahwalsh

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... for shopping and a last lunch. Then the next morning it was my turn for goodbye as I hopped on a plane back to London. I loved Turkey, it was more than I expected it to be and I had only ever heard people rave about it. I wish I had more time there ...

fairy chimneys and hittite caves, capadoccia, Goreme, Turkey travel blog

fairy chimneys and hittite caves, capadoccia

A travel blog entry by hancocjb

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Another Day, Another Bus, Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

Another Day, Another Bus

A travel blog entry by eatdessertfirst

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This time to Istanbul a place we had been looking forward to visiting. In all, it was just your standard bus trip for us; lots of stops for toilet breaks at massive bus stations which seem to be the hub of life for some of the small towns. Turkish ...

The White Cloud City, Pamukkale, Turkey travel blog

The White Cloud City

A travel blog entry by shyoungstr

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Today was a lazy morning, in the heat it is just too hard to do anything quickly. Although I was crazy enough to do a three mile job in the park before attempting the commute to Pamukkale. Luckily, I made my way back to the Otogar (the main bus station) ...

Another goodbye, Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

Another goodbye

A travel blog entry by tracystravels

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Said goodbye to some more tourmates last night on the roof deck of the Orient Hostel.  The guys fixed us a milk nargile (milk instead of water) and we enjoyed a bottle of wine taking in the light show at the Blue ...

Istanbul - Our last stop in Europe, Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

Istanbul - Our last stop in Europe

A travel blog entry by edamame

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... culture and history to it dating back thousands of years. After coming from the ultra conservative Morocco, we were surprised that Turkey is a very liberal country even though it's also Muslim. We didn't see many women wearing headscarves, and alcohol ...

With one foot in Europe and the other in..., Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

With one foot in Europe and the other in...

A travel blog entry by stevefn

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Last year it was Prague and this year Istanbul for our annual work off-site. Both new locations for me as well as excellent selections. Since I last year also managed to visit both Rome and Barcelona on my own, the list of European must see cities is ...

Ephesus, Selcuk, Turkey travel blog

Ephesus

A travel blog entry by shyoungstr

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Selcuk is the town just at the base of Ephesus, otherwise there isn't much else there. Mehmet from the restaurant below offers free shuttle to the ruins so we piled up for a late afternoon visit. These really are very complete from 352BC. Upon entering I ...

Eating as much as humanly possible, Gaziantep, Turkey travel blog

Eating as much as humanly possible

A travel blog entry by jsnicka

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... at a street vendor. Thanks, I'll have some of that please. I am full. How does one celebrate their last night and a great time in Turkey? Turkish baths. Me and a few of the lads head down the road to the Hamam and on the way I see some more ice cream I ...

A DAY AT THE KONTOR, Kemer, Turkey travel blog

A DAY AT THE KONTOR

A travel blog entry by modernoddyseus

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... and, come to think of it, restaurants in the States only pay their servers $2.50 an hour, too.  Also, working in Turkey is fun. At eight, a Ukrainian named Helen comes in.  She's our fourth server/barwoman.  She's very funny.  She ...

'Turkey's Old Jerusalem'.., Mardin, Turkey travel blog

'Turkey's Old Jerusalem'..

A travel blog entry by natandkat

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... . It also gave us the opportunity to sit down and have a good chat with some Italian friends we've seen throughout Eastern Turkey, Lorenzo and Stefano. Not sure what it is with the Milanese but they seem to love to travel to weird and wonderful ...

Turkish delights in Istanbul., Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

Turkish delights in Istanbul.

A travel blog entry by globedecker

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He Said: We had a bit of a marathon run in getting to Turkey. Our flight on Air Malta was a red-eye, departing at 1:00am and arriving at 4:30am. So after getting no sleep, we had to wait around Istanbul airport until public transportation started ...

A wet drive, Istanbul, Turkey travel blog

A wet drive

A travel blog entry by guykb

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The main task for today was to get from Canakkale to Istanbul. I had been dreading this leg a bit because driving in Istanbul is a bit legendary for being hard. We decided to play it safe and ask our hotel to book accommodation in Istanbul ahead for us, ...

Ruins and more ruins, Troy, Turkey travel blog

Ruins and more ruins

A travel blog entry by guykb

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We woke again to a wonderful scene from our window - the Aegean Sea in all its glory. Fishing boats were coming in and out of the small harbour and small waves were breaking on the shore. The girls found time for another swim and then we were on our ...

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