Posts in Tag: Turkey
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Topkapi Palace – An Istanbul Wonder
This is my 32nd and final post from our fall 2021 trip to western Turkey with Adventures Abroad. The fact that I could write this much about an 18 day trip tells you just how many interesting places are included on this itinerary. In the last post we visited the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in […]
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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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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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Via Egnatia with Adventures Abroad
Over the past five years I have written almost one hundred and fifty posts from seventeen different countries that Alison and I have journeyed to with our favourite tour operator Adventures Abroad. Many of those posts appear under the blog heading on the Adventures Abroad website. What they all have in common is that they […]
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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 […]
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Aspendos – The World’s Greatest Ancient Theatre
During our second day in the great city of Antalya we used it as the base from which to explore two of Turkey’s most important archaeological sites, Aspendos and Perge. In this short post our Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey will visit the best preserved theatre in the ancient world. We’ll also get a […]