Friday 24 May 2013

Canakkale - Troy - Pergamum - Kusadasi

Today has been a long day. We left our hotel at 7.45am with our new guide and caught the ferry (about a 20min ride) across to Canakkale (Asian side of Dardinelles) where we then drove about 20min to Troy. Heard the history of Troy and the wooden horse then visited the 3700yr old city. Most of it was piles of broken down walls from different times. There's still a lot of excavations in progress. 9 cities built over that time on top of one another. We then drove about 3hrs to Pergamum where we met another guide and he walked us through the ruins there. Then another 2hrs to Kusadasi where we are staying at the Derici Hotel overnight. The area that we drove through today was an olive growing area as far as the eye could see for most of our journey to Kusadasi. About 1/2hr before we arrived here was a huge amount of stone fruit, cotton, wheat & barley growing. From Canakkale to Pergamum is windy day and night and this is where we saw a lot of wind farms. After a pre dinner drink in our room to sum up our day we had a meal and off to bed.

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