Turkey - Istanbul - Cappadocia - ruins - animals - Ephesus - mosque - caves - Pamukkale - Temple of Hadrian - Aya Sophia - cats - Mediterranean Coast - boat - Gerome -
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There are still Roman ruins in the baths - the columns and stone fragments in the pool are original, dating back over 1800 years.© www.uncorneredmarket.com
The captain's brother Huseyn (left) didn't really speak any English, so he would communicate with us by pointing to an English word with a quill in a Turkish-English dictionary. It became quite confusing trying to get the results of the US Presidential Elections in 2000. Each time he would listen to the radio, we would get a different report on the winner. It was only when we checked internet later that we realized what was going on.And yes, Jesus (aka Freddy) might remind one of Adrian Grenier from Entourage.© www.uncorneredmarket.com
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The original church of the AyaSofya is from the 5th century, and was rebuilt after the huge dome collapsed several times in the 600 years that followed. In 1453, the Turks converted it from an Eastern Orthodox church to a mosque. Today, it houses the AyaSofya Museum, displaying a unique mix of Islamic symbols and Christian mosaics.© www.uncorneredmarket.com
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The Turkish Mediterranean coast is chock-a-block with offers of gulet (wooden-hulled boat) sea cruises.We book ours last-minute at the very end of the season in early November. Our cruise, which finds us traveling alone with a full crew at our service, takes us from Fethiye to Olympos with port stops at Kalkan and Kas in between. Though the tourist season is essentially over, we enjoy three days of sunning and swimming in crisp, but clear-blue waters. When we aren't busy relaxing, the captain’s brother and first mate engage us with ad hoc Turkish lessons (point and shoot method using a quill and English-Turkish dictionary), card playing and copious backgammon defeats. For us, the sites, food, people, and gaming captures the Turkish spirit and proves one of the many highlights of our three weeks in Turkey.© www.uncorneredmarket.com
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Istanbul's Ortakoy Camii Mosque with the Fatih Sultan Mehmed bridge in the background. We found this lonely-looking mosque dwarfed by the bridge along a Bosporus river cruise which carried us from the European to the Asian side of Istanbul.We arrive in Istanbul after a 17-hour train ride from Sofia, Bulgaria. Our senses were slowly weakened by the smells of burning coal passing from the train’s engine. Upon arrival into Istanbul, however, our senses are kicked back into overdrive with a barrage of smells, sights and sounds.
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The Turkish Mediterranean coast is chock-a-block with offers of gulet (wooden-hulled boat) sea cruises.We book ours last-minute at the very end of the season in early November. Our cruise, which finds us traveling alone with a full crew at our service, takes us from Fethiye to Olympos with port stops at Kalkan and Kas in between. Though the tourist season is essentially over, we enjoy three days of sunning and swimming in crisp, but clear-blue waters. When we aren't busy relaxing, the captain’s brother and first mate engage us with ad hoc Turkish lessons (point and shoot method using a quill and English-Turkish dictionary), card playing and copious backgammon defeats. For us, the sites, food, people, and gaming captures the Turkish spirit and proves one of the many highlights of our three weeks in Turkey.© www.uncorneredmarket.com
Pamukkale (Cotton Castle in Turkish), one of Turkey’s most famous natural phenomena, is a 400 foot high cascading plateau of calcium deposits formed over time by the flow of mineral-rich water from an underground hot mineral spring.A barefoot walk across the plateau yields the softest and cleanest feet you’ll ever feel.
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