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                    <title>Day 123 Cappadocia Tour  Turkish bath</title>
                    <description>Today we did a tour of the highlights of Cappadocia. We left the hotel at 9.30 and we went to look at the fairy chimneys first. We made a couple of stops and had a wander around them. Some of them have houses and steps carved into them where people used to live 60 years ago. Alot of the fairy chimneys make cool shapes I got photos of some that looked like camels and dogs etc.After we had seen the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Central-Anatolia/Cappadocia/blog-638218.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 122 Hot Air Ballooning  Turkish Night in Cappadocia</title>
                    <description>This morning I got up at 4.30 along with 3 others on the tour and we were picked up and taken to the starting point for our hot air ballooning. There were 20 people in our balloon and we watched how they set it up by filling it with gas in its side and then tipping it up so it39s attached to the top of the basket. Our ride was meant to be an hour and it went over all of the fairy chimneys and v</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Central-Anatolia/Cappadocia/blog-638217.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 121 Driving to Cappadocia</title>
                    <description>We had a very early start this morning we left Olympos at 6am because we had a long drive to Cappadocia. We were all pretty tired so we slept on the bus for most of the morning.The drive to Cappadocia took about 10hours and we stopped a few times along the way but other than that it was a pretty boring day of driving One of the places we stopped was at a caravanserai which was the place where p</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Central-Anatolia/Cappadocia/blog-638214.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 120 Canyoning in Olympos</title>
                    <description>We woke up early and had breakfast then drove for an hour to get to the place where we were going canyoning. We suited up with wetsuits and helmets and then started down the river. There were some parts which were deep so you had to swim through then but most of it we waded through the water. It was so cold I was really grateful we had the wetsuits. It was fun going through the canyon and in part</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Mediterranean/Olympos/blog-638212.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 119 Rockclimbing in Olympos</title>
                    <description>This morning I woke up feeling sick so I stayed back at the place we were staying and had a quiet day. The others went for a walk to the beach but we were going rockclimbing that afternoon so I wanted to be feeling better for that.So at 4 we headed out to the outdoor rockclimbing wall which is beside the river which runs through the mountains. It is dry during summer though. The couple from our</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Mediterranean/Olympos/blog-638210.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 118 Kas</title>
                    <description>We had a late start this morning because some of our group chose to go paragliding in the morning. So the rest of us had a late breakfast and waited at the hotel for the morning. When the others arrived back we left for Olympus. On the way we stopped at a beach for a swim  it was the most amazing blue water possibly the bluest I39ve seen so far. We spent awhile there then continued on to Kas</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Mediterranean/Kas/blog-638208.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 117 Fethiye </title>
                    <description>After breakfast we got picked up and were taken down to the waterfront where we got on our boat for the day cruise. It was a 12 Island Cruise which actually only went to about 5 Islands but in each one we stopped and got to jump off the boat and swim and explore the islands. They were all uninhabited islands so they were nice and quiet. One of them had a rope swing which we could swing off into </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Aegean/Fethiye/blog-637131.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 116 Saklikent Gorge</title>
                    <description>This morning we left early and drove for a few hours to the Saklikent Gorge which is a canyon with a river running through it which you can tube down. I decided not to do the tubing because I39d just done it a few weeks earlier in America and I want to have enough money to go hot air ballooning when we get to Cappadocia. So I sat by the river and had lunch which was nice. After they got back w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/blog-637130.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 115 Koycegiz</title>
                    <description>This morning we left the hotel bright and early at 6am and headed to Koycegiz. The drive took about 3 hours and we stopped on the way to take some photos of the scenery. When we arrived we checked into our hotel that we would be staying in that night. We walked down to the waterfront at 10.30 and got on a boat which took us across a lake to a channel where there was a beach. On the way we saw a ma</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Aegean/Koycegiz/blog-636303.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 114 Pamukkale</title>
                    <description>We left at 9.30 from the hotel and drove 3 hours to Pamukkale which is an area inland with terraced natural calcium formations which you can swim in. We had lunch when we first arrived then took some photos from the bottom before we went up to the top of them. They look like snow but are hard like rock kind of what I39d imagine the pink and white terraces would have looked like. When they we</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Aegean/Pamukkale/blog-636302.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 113 Acient Ephesus</title>
                    <description>After breakfast we drove to the ancient city of Ephesus which is one of the ancient wonders of the world. On the way we stopped at the house of the Virgin Mary. Outside there was a wishing wall where there were thousands of wishes written on scraps of paper and tied to the wall. Once we got to Ephesus we walked around for about an hour and a half looking at the ruins. We saw the Celcus Library wh</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Aegean/Ephesus/blog-636126.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 112 Troy  Pergamum</title>
                    <description>This morning we left at 8.30 and we drove half an hour to Troy. On the way our guide told us about the legend of Helen of Troy and once we arrived we looked in the excavation building and then went for a guided walk around the excavation sites. We learnt alot about the Trojan history which was really interesting. She told us about the 9 Troys each village built on top of the one before after eac</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Troy/blog-636067.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 111 Gallipoli Elle</title>
                    <description>This morning we walked to the Fez office and met our tour group at 7am. There are only 6 people on our 2 week tour and our transport is a transit van which has air conditioning thank goodness. We headed off towards Gallipoli which was a 5 hour drive stopping halfway for a break. While we were there our tour leader Elif went through the itinerary with us for the 2 weeks  everything sounds abso</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Gallipoli/blog-635906.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 110 Rach sorts Emergency Document  El flys to Istanbul</title>
                    <description>This morning Rach had to go to the UK embassy to sort out her passport and I went with her there then left for the airport to catch the plan to Istanbul. It was sad saying goodbye and I wish that she was coming to Turkey too The lady in the UK embassy was quite intense and wouldn39t let me in because I didn39t actually need to be there and I couldn39t wait for Rach because I had to get </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/blog-635905.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 109 Back to Athens and sightseeing times</title>
                    <description>Today we were regretably up at 6am to get the 6.30am bus but after waiting for 40mins we realised obviously the bus wasnt coming and then further found out that it was a public holiday so the bus was running on a Sunday timetable not monday So back to the hotel we went and got made breakfast  which was a bonus We then got on the 8.30 bus and it only took 4 and a bit hours this time to get back </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-635901.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 108 Olympia</title>
                    <description>Today we woke up at a reasonable hour and our lovely man made us breakie at 9am with amazing freshly squeezed orange juice I stayed back at the hotel initially cos I had to skype home and sort clothes to be sent over to London now that i was going to be going back so much sooner El and Andy went to the Archeological museum of Olympia and spent a few hours walking arund that. it was all about the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/West-Greece/Olympia/blog-635897.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 107 Trippin to Olympia</title>
                    <description>Today we got up and I got in touch with ppl about startig to organise my stuff afer having everything stolen Then we mished it to the bus stop and met up with Andy  a friend from back home.We didnt really have any idea where we were going but managed to find the bus and boarded it and spent the next 5 hours travelling to Olympia. We arrived at about 7ish pm and as we arrived at the hotel which </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/West-Greece/Olympia/blog-635895.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 106 Drama in Athens</title>
                    <description>Well...what a day We had a wake up call at 6am to eat and meet at 7am to disembark the boat. very early So that we did and then hopped on a bus to Syntegma Square. We both had job interviews today so needed to check our emails as to what time we had them on skype so stopped in at a coffee shop called Everest and sat for about half an hour with all of our bags  handbags and packs at our feet. </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-634516.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 105 Crete  Santorini</title>
                    <description>Up we got this am bright and early to wander round Crete in the am. We had been told not to expect too much and not much is what we saw The day didnt help as it was grey and once again very windy but Crete was not the most amazing place weve been to At all Old and a bit scungy But El did go to the Fish Doctor and had lil fish eat her dead skin It was awesome to watch and felt really we</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-634406.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 104 Rhodes</title>
                    <description>Today we had the whole day on the one island so we decided to sleep in a bit so set our alarms for 9am. Then got ready had another amazing breakfast omelette waffles and fruit salad and then headed off the boat onto the island of Rhodes. This morning we decided to visit the Old Town. It was pretty cute with lots and lots of identical shops which kind of reminded us of South America. All sellin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Rhodes/blog-634405.html</link>
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