Up and away at 7.30am short drive to ferry port, very short trip to other side. Lots of souviner sellers on the ferry, there's no escaping them! Short drive to Gallipoli, road was getting fixed, so we walked to Anzac cove (which is 5kms from where they were supposed to land), very emotional place with the graves facing the sea, when you look at the dates on some of the tombstones some didn't even last a day, they died on 25th April. We first visied the Lone pi...

Left hotel at 7am, back to early mornings again - b*****!! Drove to Pergamon, an old Roman hill top city, took a elevator to the bottom of the gondola then 7min gondola ride to the fortified city, which boasts the steepest amphitheatre in the world. Mark tested the acoutics and ran to the bottom to sing a song for us, i'm suprised the rocks didn't fall down! After lunch it was a long drive to Troy (Troia) which was a bit of a let down after all we have seen, you...

Didn't have to be on the bus til 9.30am getting a bit spoilt with the later starts hehe. First stop after a short drive to Ephesus an old Roman town, one of the biggest cities of its time with 400,000 people living there, from arond 10,000 BC to 900 AD. Lots of well preserved ruins, we saw an old grand library which is the attached picture, with an underground tunnel leading to the local brothel, so the men used to tell their wives they were off to the library b...

Went to another open air museum of some old ruins in Pummukale, some tombs of gladiators and old roman baths, very well preserved, they are still excavating a lot of stuff, still astounds me how they moved all those giant bricks without our modern technology. Walked the 4kms from the south entrance to the north looking at the ruins, starting at the necropolis, most built by a retired gladiator. Mark went with some of the guys to look at an amphitheatre, very ho...

Sleep in on the bus at 9.30 off to see the caravanserai. Thıs was where the Sılk Road camel caravans would stay, they were every 50km approx. Then drove to Konya and went to the convent of the Whırlıng Dervıshes - thıs was a Muslım sect that promoted love of god (not fear) and tolerance of other peoples belıefs. The prospectıve Dervıshes had to spend 1001 nıghts ın the convent and stay ın small sıngle rooms and practıce the whırlıng and learn Kor...