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Turkey Summer Vacation [Part 3]: The Beautiful and Historic Aegean

Sunday, 1 July 2012 On that day, our group left the not-so-good hotel in Çanakkale. The destination to visit would be İzmir city and remains of Selçuk, which took more than half day to get to the first destination and another one hour to the next, still within the İzmir Province. According to the seven geographical regions of Turkey, both are included in Aegean Region (Ege in Turkish), named after the Aegean Sea. On our way to İzmir city, we took one toilet stop (not sure where, maybe Edremit?) and another lunch stop at Bergama (Pergamon) which also had ancient city. It was not on our itinerary, however. As usual, Ümit gave us "lecture" during the beginning of the journey. The topic of the day, if I am not mistaken was social life, including the work and salary of Turkish people, living cost and its element, as well as comparison between the urban and rural live. He also told us about how he got his career as tourist guide. In addition to it, after the first stop, he al...

Turkey Summer Vacation [Part 5]: Exploring Cappadocia, the Carved Civilization

The main reason for tourists to visit Cappadocia is the seemingly well-formed rock formations in the region. Some unique features of the rock formations are naturally created, but to add to its uniqueness, people also carved dwellings on the rock formations, giving historical aspect to the place. These dwellings are called cave houses, which still exist until now and even turned into cave hotels and cave restaurants. But for the housing purpose, (Turkish) government seems to have encouraged dwellers to move to more modern houses in the town areas of Nevşehir, the province where most of our point of interests to visit are located. On Wednesday, 4 July 2012, we woke up at 4 a.m. to catch the hot-air balloon flight tour, which always start early in the morning. We were picked up by the balloon flight operator company van at our hotel, not by our usual tour bus. As said before, this flight tour was optional so not everyone of the group joined the hot-air balloon. It costed 200 U...

Turkey Summer Vacation [Part 2]: Crossing the Dardanelles to the Ancient Civilization of Troy

On Saturday, 30 June 2012, in the morning our group left the hotel in Istanbul for our next destination. Our destination that day was the ancient city of Troy (Truva) on the Asian side of Turkey. The Asia side of Turkey is called Anatolia, while the Europe side of Turkey is called Thrace. Our journey would be about four-hour bus drive to the town of Eceabat on Gallipoli Peninsula of the European side of Çanakkale Province, through the Tekirdağ Province. From Eceabat, we and our bus boarded car ferry to the Asian side of Çanakkale Province, for approximately half an hour. Upon reaching the Asian side, we continued the bus drive for less than an hour to the Troy historic site. The view of Bosporus (or Marmara?) from the window of my hotel room in Istanbul While still in Istanbul that day and the day before, we saw remains of fortresses. We were told that they used to be the boundary of the old city of Istanbul. In fact, the old city area of Istanbul i...

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