Right,so I royally messed up my blogs,doing so much every day muddled me slightly I had to redo my last blog so give it another read cause it was wrong...I'd written about the Turkish baths twice and said I was somewhere when I wasn't. My bad,apologies for being slack in posting blogs lack of time and messing them up slowed me up. Ok so today we headed to Saklikent,on the way we got pulled over by police and had to sit around because they wanted all this paper ...

Today we were up early so we could be one of the first tours to get to Ephesus,which is huge area of ruins of an ancient city which was the most commercial city of the coastal region. In the photos the remains are predominantly from the later roman period. It was amazing to see so much still standing and as a result it's easily determined what was used for what. Because we were there early we were the first ones so we got to have photos on what would have been ...

Another early start so we could get to the Ancient city of Troy nice and early before all the tourists got there. Our tour guide told us not to expect too much from Troy as it was a few wall ruins and 4000 yr old red bricks. Rightfully so it wasn't hugely exciting although after studying Troy in ancient history as a HSC subject it had a little more meaning to me. Getting to see the ruins of an ancient city and see where Heinrich Schlimann who I studied in high s...

With an early start and a 5 hr drive it was a relief to get to Gallipoli and see it was well worth it. We went straight to the heart of where the action began for the Anzacs in 1915 at Anzac cove. The sight was beautiful,and overwhelming to know that almost 100 years ago there was so much bloodshed right where I stood. Further down the beach we walked around an Anzac cemetery which over looked the water,headstones were put in this area to honor soldiers that we...

Today was jam-packed with sightseeing and lots of walking around Istanbul. My feet and back were none the less killing by the time we go back to the hotel at the end of the day. Started with a beautiful buffet breakkie,stuffed myself so that I was able to roll down the streets of turkey rather then walk. First stop was the Hippodrome,which was initially used for chariot racing,the original building was built by roman emperor Septimus Severus (Harry Potter?),dur...