Ozak Ayvalik

SARIMSAKLI BADAVUT Ayvalik, Balikesir, 100032, Turkey

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Day 239 - The Ancient City

A travel blog entry by craigadventure

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... eateries, although lots of shop would ‘clean’ the sidewalk or promenade outside their shops with a hose. This makes some sense and is a fairly common practice in ethnic neighbourhoods in Toronto. Having just been in Africa (and other places), where water is such a scarce resource, it seemed like an excessive indulgence.

After another bus ride we arrived in Avylik (pr. Eh-veh-lick) finding the tourist cartel catering mostly to Turks while ...

Marmaris to Ayvalik

A travel blog entry by kiwivolant

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... is a beach there is row upon row of square boxes, mainly white, covering the hillsides. The western end of Bodrum peninsula is the worst. Completely covered with white houses. There are also a number of new, expensive marinas popping up along the coastline. Western Turkey is changing rapidly as the country becomes increasingly affluent. It will be interesting seeing the eastern areas when we venture along the Black Sea coastline. ...

If Bus Rides Were A Measure of Wealth...

A travel blog entry by kieser_family

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... all been canceled for the day, leaving us with the option instead to catch a bus to Bursa and than connect to another bus for about another 4 hours to Istanbul. Grabbed the last few seats on one, grabbed some lunch and we were off again.

At some point during the last leg of buses it had died down enough and the bus got on the ferry for about an hour to cross over getting us to Istanbul around 9:00 at night. We had ...

Trojans, Romans, Ruins and Wrecks

A travel blog entry by billnpat

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... 2500 BC. It’s greatest period was around the 7th layer, which is the supposed time of the Trojan Wars, and the events and characters of the Iliad. The 8th and 9th layers lead up into Roman civilization. Interestingly, the Romans view Troy as their heritage, as the Trojan, Aeneas was believed to have escaped the Trojan War, fled to Rome, and become the progenitor of the Roman emperors. Incredible to think of such as Agammenon, Achilles, Aeneas, Alexander et al treading ...

Beach day.

A travel blog entry by i_could_walk

... boat connection from Istanbul. The quarries here are pretty extensive and you can see sheer cliffs of marble spread across the hillside. The hotel has marble floors everywhere and even uses marble doorstops. The fast food place next door has put up a menu; I suspect this is for my benefit and very welcome it is too. Its strange that most restaurants don't have them and basically serve the same as everyone else. The corner ...

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