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Sun, 14 Jun 2015 | By krodin | Views [775]

A Journey Through Time: Traveling the Seven Churches Route
The modern city of Izmir sits on ancient Symrna. The city was famous as a trade route in the ancient world and remains so today. It is my starting point for an excursion ... Read more >
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [856]

YESTERDAY'S DRIVE SOUTH TO BOGAZKALE, though long, was refreshing; two-lane blacktop winding through rolling hills and freshly sown fields and charming run-down villages. Mustafa was waiting for us with sweet tea at his family’s Hotel Baykul, ... Read more >
Wed, 10 Jun 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [352]

THE ANCIENT HITTITE CAPITAL OF HATTUSA is only an hour or so east of Ankara but we decided to take a 500 kilometer detour and an overnight visit in the Ottoman town of Safronbolu instead of the direct route. This would be our only chance to visit ... Read more >
Tue, 9 Jun 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [374]

NOWHERE IN THE AZERBAIJAN WEBSITE DO THEY mention that you cannot get a visa in Turkey unless you are a resident as the friendly folks at the embassy politely informed us. So we had to go through a Baku travel agency on-line and fork over $120 ... Read more >
Sat, 6 Jun 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [412]

PART OF THIS VISIT TO TURKEY IS A TRAVEL EXPERIMENT to test our hypothesis — that it is better to endure the cold desolation of off-season travel than to compete with the tourist hoards of summer. There are many new places we want to see ... Read more >
Thu, 4 Jun 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 28 May 2015 | By madrasa | Views [529] | Scholarship Entry
It's easy to arrive in Selçuk. The famous Ephesus is just behind the corner there. Get to Selçuk bus station. If you'll manage to survive the man who's trying to offer you a new bus ride, the man who's trying to sell you the cheapest pension in the range ... Read more >
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Thu, 28 May 2015 | By mjfalk | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By jcave | Views [359] | Scholarship Entry
The ferry takes you from Karaköy on the European side of the city to Kadiköy on the Asian side. I stuffed the battered guidebook into the bottom of my equally battered rucksack and walked to Karaköy harbour. For three lira, the price of a can of Coke, ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By aidan-torin | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By gracie | Views [198] | Scholarship Entry
I was grumpy. It had been a long day. We started off very early that morning - at seven o’clock, sans breakfast, and all I wanted at that time was to crash into bed. But my cousin and travel companion wanted to cover one last stop in the same area ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By efi | Views [234] | Scholarship Entry
My then girlfriend and I were in Turkey on a photography tour of Istanbul and Cappadocia. We had a great sense of adventure and we tried to get lost as much as possible and see the other side of the cities that is rarely seen. As we meandered within ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By gosia | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By gosia | Views [251] | Scholarship Entry
It was three days before Christmas in Istanbul and I was coming back from shopping in bazaar in Kadiköy, on the Asian side. I was spending holidays in this Muslim country and it was a lot less tiring than Christmas madness in Poland. To reach Karaköy ... Read more >
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Wed, 20 May 2015 | By mjfalk | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry
Everything I read about Turkey said no trip was complete without the must-have experience of a traditional Turkish bath. It seemed very foreign to me, but I am a sucker for must-have experiences. From the pictures, this looked like a pleasant all be it ... Read more >
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