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Check your Midnight Express stereotypes at the door - this is a rapidly modernising country with one foot in Europe and one in the Middle East. It's not all oriental splendour, mystery, intrigue and whirling dervishes but it is a spicy maelstrom of history knocking up against a pacy present.
The Turkish people have an unrivalled reputation for hospitality, the cuisine is to die for, the coastline is a dream, and many Turkish cities are dotted with spectacular mosques and castles. And while costs are rising, Turkey remains one of the Mediterranean's bargain-basement destinations.
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Tue, 1 May 2012 | By sophv | Views [92] | Comments [5]
Our pilgrimage to Gallipoli began early in the morning on the 24th of April on a bus packed with Aussies and Kiwis. The long commute, taking the entire day, only served to increase our anticipation for what was ahead. We finally walked into the commemoration ... Read more >
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Tue, 1 May 2012 | By sophv | Views [59]
1. Bring a sleeping bag. Just do it. It's colder than you think it will be, and impossible to find one in Istanbul. 2. Failing that, be ruthless in your choice of friendships made on the commute to Gallipoli. Target those with large sleeping those ... Read more >
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Thu, 26 Apr 2012 | By sophv | Photo Gallery
Goreme, Istanbul, Gallipolli
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By sophv | Views [186] | Comments [3]
Two bleary eyed Australian girls touched down in İstanbul, Turkey at midday on the 18th of April to begin our grand adventure, and walked out of the airport straight into Turkey's first duststorm in 25 years. Despite having done a small amount of preparation, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By pauluiza | Photo Gallery
Fascinating Istanbul and ancient ruins
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By pauluiza | Views [55]
Turkey (Part II) – Istanbul & Didim – beauty, elegance,
ruins and lovely friends
After 18 months in Asia, we leave Bangkok on the last day of
the Thai New Year, a great time for new beginnings, so we take a Malaysia
Airlines flight to Kuala ... Read more >
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 | By euclydessantos | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 30 Mar 2012 | By kora | Views [38]
ich denke oefter an euch als ich es mit worten zeige in den
erlebnisreichen monaten meiner reise. Seit wohl schon ueber einer woche
befinde ich mich in Istanbul... der stadt zwischen den kontinenten.
heruebergeflogen aus dem unbeschreiblichen ... Read more >
Thu, 2 Feb 2012 | By scholarships | Views [4017]
The 2011 winner of our Travel Writing Scholarship to Turkey, Zoe Smith, is soon to be back on the road! She has just been asked by Rough Guides to return to Turkey in the spring as a staff writer. On her scholarship assignment, she worked on ... Read more >
Tags: asia, blogging, europe, istanbul, opportunties, rough guides, scholarships, travel, turkey, writing
Wed, 1 Feb 2012 | By copperowl | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 29 Jan 2012 | By mimoso_666 | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 | By chris_and_dusk | Views [98]
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this stage of the trip we were counting down the bus trips left. It was our
second overnight bus trip in a week and we really weren’t looking forward to
it. The Turkish buses weren’t quite up to the standard of South American buses
ie no lazy ... Read more >
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 | By rachelina | Views [166]
For the third time in 24 hours we climbed onto a long distance bus, already desperately in need of a shower and exhausted. It started off well - the conductor of the bus made the bus pull over in the middle of nowhere, panicking over our tickets, calling ... Read more >
Tags: asthma cave, chasm of hell and heaven, kizkalesi, maidens castle, mediterranean, mersin, narlikuyu, overnight bus, silifke, turkey
Fri, 9 Dec 2011 | By rachelina | Views [307]
This is what overnight buses do to you. Overnight bus number 2 took us to Antakya, 55 miles from the Syrian border. Reading the guidebook, we were charmed by the writer's conviction that Antakya was the 'Jewel of the Mediterranean'. This was ... Read more >
Tags: antakya, archeological museum, bus, hatay, local transport, mosaics, sleep deprivation, turkey
Fri, 2 Dec 2011 | By rachelina | Views [251]
And so I arrived in Istanbul, ready for three and a half weeks of backpacking with my 18 year old brother who - to put it gently - is a travel novice. He had arrived the day before me and in that 24 hour stretch had managed to get himself trapped ... Read more >
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