TURKEY- ANZAC DAY We arrived in Turkey and instantaniously fell in love with the place. The weather was beautiful, the people were happy and very friendly and we had almost a whole month to spend in this gorgeous country. We have organised a 35 day tour from Istanbul to Cairo through the middle east. We realised that this tour was due to start around a week before Anzac day so we decided to come to Istanbul a week earlier. Istanbul itself is an amazing city- its first inhabitants were here around 2500BC. Since then there have been many different civilizations that have inhabited Istanbul including the Byzantines Romans, Greeks, Ottomans, and now the Turkish. This is proabably because Istanbul sits in between the European and Asian continents and is only seperated by a thin stretch of
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