Turkey Day 2 _ 10 Oct 2011

After spending our first night for a much needed sleep at the lovely Iris Hotel right in front of Aegean Sea, we set off with our bus the next morning at 7am, that means we had to wake up at 530 am. We began to have our buffet breakfast at hotel / lunch at restaurant / buffet dinner at hotel routine for the whole trip, and i cannot get used to the fact that i need to buy or cook for myself on the second day after i am back to Singapore. It feels good that you do not need to plan for your meals during the trip given the fact that i am not a fussy eater, and get to eat all Mediterranean styles everyday, all kinds of cheese, yogurts , desserts and fruits, breads,eat all you can. Turkish hotel cuisines is very mediterranean style itself, juicy and sweet tomatos, pasta, olive oil and vinegar, lots of herbs, lentil soup, fish, chicken. We also given a chance to explore many kinds of local fruits / snacks along the journey with our very generous local tour guide.

Finally we reached Troia A.K.A Troy was found by Hittite ppl( native of ancient Turkey , dated back to 12th Century BC ), modern Turkey ppl ( Ottoman Turks ) only took over the country in 15th AD, therefore we are able to see many places in Turkey with Greeks / Roman Empire history.

Ancient Troia city ( UNESCO site ) is now nothing but ruins, where the Trojan Horse story based.


A mocked Trojan horse to fool us tourists nowadays.


After that we spent a few hours of bus ride to Pergamon_ Acropolis, due to foggy weather and on a mountainous area we saw there were lots of foggy mediterranean jungles / olive trees plantation/ pomegranate trees plantation/ farmers cottages. Finally we reached Pergamon _ Acropolis, another ancient Greek city site.

View from Pergamon ruins to the lake next to it.

Pergamon ruins, lots of art piece were taken by the German, now in Pergamon museum of Berlin, what a waste. Pergamon has the best library in ancient Greek civilisation, we have also walked past the huge storage places for their wealth, which is now of course empty.


After lots of exercise walking up and down the hill, we headed to our next lodging Hotel Tatlise, along the way we stopped over and enjoy our first bread and butter with honey comb, and of course cay ( Turkish black tea ) for our afternoon tea break.


In that night, Porky sabotaged himself by doing something silly on his luggage ... he he he...

Darby