From Izmir to Canakkale

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We started the day by travelling to Pergamon which in 133BC became the capital of the Roman Province of Asia. There we visited the remains of possibly the first medical centre in the world known as the Asclepieum. Pearched on the surrounding hillside is the acropolis of ancient Pergamon where in the 8th century BC the city was ruled for a time by one of Alexander the Great's generals.

Our journey continued to Troy which is wallowing in history. The excavated remains of the ancient city yield nine stages of development starting around 4000BC until about AD300. Troy was the pivot of Homer's Illiad and was the centre of the Trojan War. Needless to say the wooden Trojan horse on the site is a recent construction.

Our final destination of the day was Canakkale being the town which occupies the narrowest point of the straits known as The Dardanelles which connects the Sea of Marmara to the Aegean Sea

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