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Kalif Hotel Ayvalik

Hurriyet Cad. No 19, Sarimsakli Ayvalik, Balikesir, Turkey

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Day 239 - The Ancient City

A travel blog entry by craigadventure

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... out. He did walk him over to the young people working the check in. We rode the dolomus out to the main highway and were let off on the side of the road knowing we were to wait for a passing bus but unsure when what would happen.

We waived at a few white vans that looked like dolomuses and watched a lot of others and many buses trolling the route from Çanakkale to Troy and back. Within an hour a bus didn’t make the turn to Troy and instead stopped ...

Marmaris to Ayvalik

A travel blog entry by kiwivolant

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... leaves and algae. Not at all inviting. So we wondered amongst the olive groves before upanchoring and motoring the 20 miles for Ayvlaik. A stunning area, which could easily be mistaken for anywhere in NZ, except for the style of the buildings. The town and the smaller village of Alibey are on the shore of a large enclosed area known as ‘the lake’. We arrived mid afternoon, after entering through a ...

If Bus Rides Were A Measure of Wealth...

A travel blog entry by kieser_family

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... in the morning.

I wake up, at some ungodly hour, to knocking on the door and remain still in hopes that I was still dreaming. (What! I was feeling worse and this was supposed to be the one day to sleep-in and relax!) Our intruder was not fooled by my playing dead so I reluctantly let him in to find Dad had decided we should look into get a bus out this morning since the streets were flooded and if it rained again ...

Trojans, Romans, Ruins and Wrecks

A travel blog entry by billnpat

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... old grenades.

The cemetary was a bit more moving, with gravestones of a hundred or so Brits and Aussies, as young as 17 years old, and as old as 50. All tolled, over 140,000 men lost their lives in this futile ten month campaign, the brainchild of one Winston Churchill..

As interesting was the story of the naval battles that occurred in the Dardenelles in March of 1915. As I write, we are overlooking the area of the straits where about 20 British and ...

Day 7 leaving Istanbul for Bergama

A travel blog entry by alanstrange5

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... to find Athena Pension Hostel.

When we got here, we were told that a triple room was 60TL with breakfast. We took this as we had heard that the breakfast was amazing. After showering in a shower that that actually worked well and felt like heaven compared to Erasmus, we headed in to town for a wander.

Bergama is a beautiful small town where the locals are very ...