Posts in Category: Turkey
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Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
I started writing these posts from my last visit to Turkey with Adventures Abroad in what seems like ages ago. Two of the first posts featured the great Istanbul Archaeological Museums. I am now down to the final two posts from this trip and by coincidence or not they will feature two more of Turkey’s […]
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Ankara – Visiting Ataturk’s Mausoleum
In the last post of four from Cappadocia we went ballooning, fulfilling a lifelong dream for some of us on this Adventures Abroad tour of Western Turkey. Now it was time to leave this storied wonderland and head for the capital city of Turkey, Ankara where we will visit the Ataturk Mausoleum and the Museum […]
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Ballooning in Cappadocia
This is my fourth and final post from Cappadocia on this Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey. In the last one we ventured deep underneath the bowels of Cappadocia to visit the underground city of Derinkuyu. In this one we’ll do the very opposite, taking to the blue skies above Cappadocia in a hot air […]
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Derinkuyu Underground City, Cappadocia
In the last post our Adventures Abroad tour of Western Turkey visited the open air museum at Goreme. This was a bit of a misnomer because most of what we saw was actually inside the churches that were carved out of the soft volcanic rock of Cappadocia. In this post we will do the opposite […]
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Goreme Open Air Museum
In the last post from this Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey our group finally arrived at the fairy tale landscape of Cappadocia. We had an all too brief and tantalizing look at the landforms that are unique to this region of Turkey, both for their distinctive shapes and for the uses that mankind has […]
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Cappadocia – Where & What Is It
We are well on in our Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey led by the indomitable Yasemin Reis and today we will finally reach the fabled region known as Cappadocia, a destination I have wanted to visit for many years. Much of what we have seen so far on this trip has been a repeat […]
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Konya – Home of the Whirling Dervishes
In the last post our Adventures Abroad western Turkey tour made its final stop on the Mediterranean coast at the city of Side. It was now time to turn inland and cross the Taurus Mountains to the high plateau of Anatolia where the fabled region of Cappadocia awaits us. But, before we get to Cappadocia […]
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Side – Greco/Romans Ruins Amid a Modern Town
Today marks our final journey along the Mediterranean Coast on this Adventures Abroad trip through western Turkey led by expert Turkish guide Yasemin Reis. In the last post we visited the wondrous ruins of Perge, one of the first places where St. Paul preached the new Christian religion. We will depart from the city of […]
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Perge – Walking in the Footsteps of St. Paul
In the last post from this ongoing series on western Turkey with Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad we visited the great theatre of Aspendos and marvelled at the Roman engineering feat of the inverted siphon aqueduct that brought water to that city. In this post we’ll visit Perge, a much larger archaeological site not far […]