Our turkey trip is about to begin! In this Easter holiday, my wife and I will have a trip on turkey. We will first visit the great City, Istanbul, which was previously called Byzantine and Constantinople. It has been an important city for almost two millenniums of three great empires: Roman, Byzantium and Ottoman. Therefore there will be many historical scenes that we must not miss! We will have a cruise in Bosphorus. It is a strait divides Europe and Asia. We will locate at the boundary of two continents!
After shipping through the Dardanelles strait, we will go to Canakkale and finally reach the ruined city,Troy. There was a war described by a Greek poet, Homer. The war started from the world most beautiful girl, wife of Sparta(a Greece city at the other side of Aegean sea) king were robbed by the Troy prince. And the war was ended by a whooping wooden horse, which hundreds of soldiers have hidden into. Then we will go to see the wooden horse! HaHa! It should be a fake one.
The next station will be another ancient city Pergamon, we will ride cable tram up to the hill. Then we will reach Kusadasi. It lies in the Aegean coast and we will have a chance to live in a little resort to enjoy the sunshine and starry night in front of the Aegean sea.
Then we will visit a great ruined city, Ephesus. My elder sister have visited before and exclaimed for the mysterious architecture of the ancient Roman. She felt herself insignificantly small in front of the long human race.
After a 10-hours bus travel, we will reach Pamukkale which is also known as "cotton castle". The pools there were pale blue and I will touch the white sands and stones shown in the picture to see if they are softy. Hopefully I can immerse my foots into the fairy waterfall. Then we will reach another ancient city ,Hierapolis which was built on the plateau.
The next unforgettable scene will be Cappadocia. There will be lots of wonderful rocks such as Fairy Chimney. Someone said the stones are very similar to the moon surface. It will be a great experience to fly on a balloon and see the whole scene. We are fear to have this kind of fly and may be we climb to a higher place and see it with my imagination.
Then we will go to Goreme, it sounds like "Go with me" but it actually means "You cannot find me"! In Roman time, Christians went there to escape from the torture of Arabic governors. There are some secluded chapels inside the rocks and we will visit one of the cave churches.
The tour is so kind that we will have a local airway flying to Istanbul avoiding another 11 hours bus travel. At Istanbul, it will be our last chance in Turkey, we will go all the sites as much as we can! We wish to buy huge amounts of "Turkey delight" because we have tasted it from the souvenir of one of our friends. It was sort of softy and fruity sweets and we are delighted to sample it again!
Happy Turkey Trip! We are coming now!
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