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Egyptian Bazaar and Sound & Light Show

A travel blog entry by sojanet

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... coffee shop. I don't drink coffee, so I got a mixed fruit smoothie- yum! I haven't had smoothies at all in Turkey, so it was an indulgence to my taste buds. We had actually gone there last night around 8:45pm, but the place closed at ...

Eleven Dollar Gas Anyone? Artemis?

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... of ruined columns all pointed towards Ephesus, the Asian capital of Rome.� At the time, Asia was only a small part of Eastern Turkey, but eventually became the name for the entire continent to the east, with Turkey known as Asia Minor.� As I first ...

The Cool Cats Of Van..

A travel blog entry by natandkat

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Greetings from deep, dark, Eastern Turkey. Yes, we're in Van. Van is one of the places that everyone you bump into tells you just have to visit. So of course we hated it for one reason or another. Van's main claim to fame is Van Lake (3rd biggest in ...

Back to Asia

A travel blog entry by jsnicka

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... as we left the hotel before 7 after breakfast. It took about 5 hours to get to Eceabat, which is still on the European side of Turkey. Here we had lunch then had a 5 hour tour of Gallipoli. This is an area made famous by some of the events that took ...

Treehouses full of backpackers in a ...

A travel blog entry by catmoj

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Treehouses full of backpackers in a beautiful setting. Ruins hidden by the undergrowth and a green lagoon behind the beach. How's the ...

Elazig. Over night stop

A travel blog entry by jennykelly

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... tummy while we were here, but we consider it 'building up our immunity' There is a lot of road building going on in Turkey which will eventually be better for it's people and also the tourist but whilst we have to travel on the gravel roads they are a ...

The Dark Knight

A travel blog entry by sojanet

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After passing out around 5am on Friday night, I woke up at 8am to be the #1 tourist that I am. We took the tramvay to the oh-so-familiar Sultanahmet station for our Tokapi Palace visit. Built in the 15th century, Tokapi Palace is more grand in size ...

Sir this is a sheer waste of good men - joe ...

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"Sir, this is a sheer waste of good men" - Joe Gasparich, N.Z. soldier It's a place every Australian and New Zealander has read about, studied at school, seen the Mel Gibson movie version, watched the Anzac parades, been indoctrinated to rile the ...

Cappadocia rocks- a lot!!!

A travel blog entry by sojanet

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... us up from the pension and took us to a bus, the size of the overnight bus, filled with tourists from Spain, France, Turkey, and wherever else. Our tour guide spoke Turkish and English. We first went to Pigeon Valley, where we could see the ...

Magical place with fairy phalli

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I'll get around writing this entry... Balloon ride at 5:30am Red valley hiking ...

Can and Cem (pronounced Jon and Gem)

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I had lined up a Couch with Can to stay for the next two nights and the plan via email was for him to meet me at the Metro bus office in Taksim when I arrived. I intended to call him when I was on my way, but just my luck, the way the Turkish mobile ...

Chapter 46: The Sunken City, and Chimaera Flames

A travel blog entry by easyread

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... Wardrobe"). There were a surprising number of Turkish tourists at Olympos, which may explain why it was the first place I'd visited in Turkey that actually seemed packed. Aslan and I had a few beers, and he re-taught me how to play backgammon before we ...

Hedon: Turkish epicurian delights

A travel blog entry by technotrekker

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... Hedon is just south of a large headland in the north eastern corner of the Med, about 60km due west of Antakya in Turkey. History buffs might realise that Antakya is the modern day Antioch, a major metropolis in Greco-Roman times that had added dubious ...

Istiklal Caddesi

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... was which restaurant to choose, which pastries to eat and which scarf would look best. I found a bookshop that had a good road-map of Turkey to help me when we hire the car in a few days time. We came home, dumped out purchases and then went back out ...

The magic of Cappadocia

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... were abandoned after the proclamation of the Turkish state in 1923. At this time there were massive 'population exchanges' between Turkey and Greece, which meant that the Christians who had been living in Cappadocia for more than a thousand years were ...

Apple shisha in a treehouse

A travel blog entry by jsnicka

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The bus ride to Olympos was amazing. It was another 5 hours but driving along the coastline of the Mediterranean was truly stunning and made the time go by quite quickly. The green shrubbery was a sharp contrast from the brown scrub and the grey of ...

Harems, Bombs, and the Head of John the Baptist

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... things have been going downhill ever since, with an active (although some say increasingly marginalized) Kurdish liberation movement. In Turkey, at least some Kurds have decided to take things into their own hands. The PKK has been the ...

Ata Turk's address

A travel blog entry by jennykelly

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10.8.06 Ata Turk's address 1934 It was a public holiday on the 10th August in Turkey and a remembrance day. There was a huge service held with amplifiers, grand stands and ceremony. Bus loads of Turkish Army students came to the memorial sites to ...

Geeks, Itchy spots and the Harlem of Istanbul

A travel blog entry by charlotte

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... time although I was the only surprise arrival! The manager is called Nevzat and can only speak Turkish and French so bizarrely I am Turkey speaking French with the boss and English with everyone else! As I was a bit of a surprise it is not clear what ...

5 bombs in 24 hours? Let's go there...

A travel blog entry by marktjhung

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... needed nor could afford. Here are the Top 5. 5. An exquisite hand carved wooden camel from the finest woods in all Turkey. 4. A leather jacket in case it gets below 40 degrees. 3. A 'genuine fake watch'. Well, that's what the guy described ...

Cruising the Turkish Mediterranean

A travel blog entry by technotrekker

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... autumn apparently. Oh well. Whatever the difficulties of getting to the actual attractions, the Mediterranean coastline along southern Turkey is spectacular and quite bizarre. Rocky and swept of tall vegetation by the prevailing winds and a ...

A day of budget travels

A travel blog entry by jeroenandlinda

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... sat down and enjoyed some nice grilled fish. The waiter frequently hopped across the street to check the score on the basketball game. Turkey is hosting the world championships, and they made it to the semi finals today. After out dinner we headed back to ...

Amongst The Clouds..

A travel blog entry by natandkat

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... heat to see a ruined city. That being said however, it has to be the most spectacularly sited ruined city in Turkey with a beautiful mountain backdrop. The Termessians lived in this impregnable fortress city from around 400BC and were the only race to ...

Fethiye: Scrubbed up the right way

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... weather, turtles, strange Lycian cliff tombs and shmick beaches beckoned so it was good to keep moving further south along Turkey's Mediterranean coast After a change to a super-comfy bus we were zooming through the rugged countryside. I swear that ...

Not Nice Enough To Spend 2 Weeks In Matey..

A travel blog entry by natandkat

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... I relay the relatively uninteresting visa hijinks. Erzurum is pretty much the most Islamic city you're likely to find in Turkey. It's a town of god fearing, patriotic, conservative men, and women wearing voluminous black drapes, weird hession sack type ...

Classy Night at Galata Tower

A travel blog entry by sojanet

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... pop songs from different countries. There were people from Romania, Mexico, France, U.S.A., South Africa, England, Yemen, Ukraine, Turkey.... He knew ALL of the languages and songs- crazy! He started singing a Japanese ...

Crashing a circumcision party!

A travel blog entry by sojanet

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... told me Bursa is not that great, so I had not expected much out of the visit, but it turned out to be one of the top visits in Turkey. The circumcision party was a definite highlight... where in Istanbul would you be able to crash a party like ...

Heads of Nemrut - Sunrise and Sunset

A travel blog entry by lucinate

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Yusuf would be our tour guide and driver. We were just waiting for the other two and guess who they were? Correct! The two that had been on the same bus as us! Fabrizio and Corina were Italian and came from Imola - close to Bologna, home of Ducati ...

The saga of the jacket

A travel blog entry by guykb

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It's worth a separate post to talk about my poor leather jacket. This leather jacket means a lot to me. It was bought for my birthday in Crete 4 years ago by someone very special to me. I couldn't believe that I had been stupid enough to leave it ...

Across the Bosphorus - From Asia to Europe

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... a 360 degree view, or cruising across the Marmara Sea from the Princes' Isles, as the sun sets behind the Aya Sofia and Topkapi Palace. I still have another two weeks to explore Turkey, but it's going to be hard to find somewhere I love more than ...

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Egyptian Bazaar and Sound & Light Show

Eleven Dollar Gas Anyone? Artemis?

The Cool Cats Of Van..

Back to Asia

Treehouses full of backpackers in a ...

Elazig. Over night stop

The Dark Knight

Sir this is a sheer waste of good men - joe ...

Cappadocia rocks- a lot!!!

Magical place with fairy phalli

Can and Cem (pronounced Jon and Gem)

Chapter 46: The Sunken City, and Chimaera Flames

Hedon: Turkish epicurian delights

Istiklal Caddesi

The magic of Cappadocia

Apple shisha in a treehouse

Harems, Bombs, and the Head of John the Baptist

Ata Turk's address

Geeks, Itchy spots and the Harlem of Istanbul

5 bombs in 24 hours? Let's go there...

Cruising the Turkish Mediterranean

A day of budget travels

Amongst The Clouds..

Fethiye: Scrubbed up the right way

Not Nice Enough To Spend 2 Weeks In Matey..

Classy Night at Galata Tower

Crashing a circumcision party!

Heads of Nemrut - Sunrise and Sunset

The saga of the jacket

Across the Bosphorus - From Asia to Europe