Aya Sofya

This is one of the oldest and grandest buildings in the world.

August 8th 2007
I watched the green Irish countryside fly by beneath me. It wasn’t long before darkness obliterated the view, so I pulled out my guide book for the Middle East and I turned to the section on Turkey and I started reading about Istanbul, a city I knew virtually nothing about. I quickly learned that the city had started its life as Byzantium in 667BC. From the banks of the Sea of Marmara, at the ... read more

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Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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Keith Martin

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I am from Georgia, but I have lived in California for the past few years. I have been working as an engineer since I got out of school six years ago. I have grown tired of working the never changing rat race of ‘normal life’, so I am embarking on a multi-year round the world journey, a retirement of sorts, beginning with a winter contract job in Antarctica. From there, who knows where I will go, but I plan on seeing the whole world and all of the unique cultures, remote wildernesses and amazing history that this planet has to offer. I am planning on traveling as inex... full info

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