Recent Posts Tagged With 'ruins'

• Welcome to Istanbul, Friend

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 20:00 in travel, Backpacking, Turkey, Istanbul, castle, palace, ruins, old town, blue mosque, aya sofyia

  Shopping Having arrived in Istanbul at 11:00pm, we were a little out of luck for transportation. We waited for the Metro and then took the trolley and after a long walk ended up in old town, where we were covered in sweat from hauling our 50lb packs ...

• Homer’s Troy and Gallipoli

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 20:00 in travel, Backpacking, Turkey, troy, ruins, anzac, gallipoli

  ANZAC graves After a restful night, we awoke early to talk with the manager of the hostel about the package tours to Gallipoli and Troy. We were shocked at the ridiculous prices and decided to do the trips on our own, which was more our style. We too...

• The Three Ancient Cities

  Posted on Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 20:00 in travel, Backpacking, Turkey, ruins, ephesus, ancient cities, asia by land

  Priene, Miletus and Didyma are three rather impressive ruins along the Aegean Coast that are smaller than Ephesus, but were important pilgrimage or economic sites in their day. We decided to rent a car from Selcuk and drive to all three of the ancien...

• Merv: A Desert Fortress of Pottery Shards

  Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 07:35 in travel, Photography, Alexander the great, mary, silk road, central asia, turkmenistan, ruins, unesco heritage site, fortresses, merv, alexanderia mergiana

  Last weekend we embarked on a three day / two night camping trip to the ruins of Merv.  A short 30 km away from the present city of Mary, Turkmenistan; Merv has been declared an UNESCO World Heritage Site and rightfully so.  The 5 – 5 1/2 hou...

• Sojourn to Nissa

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 22:52 in central asia, turkmenistan, ruins, parthians, zoroastrian, nissa, 3bc

  Yesterday we got in the 4×4 and took an off road expeditionary tour of Nissa,which was once a Parthian capital in the 3rd century BC. At one point over forty towers surrounded the small adobe fortress on the hilltop, but today there is little re...