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TURKEY- Gallipoli (re-visited), Troy, Ephisus and Pamukkale

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May 27th 2008
The next stage of our trip was to head off to the middle east we had organised to do an overland trip from Istanbul to Cairo. This trip would take us through Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Overland trips are basically a heap of people in a big truck the trip drives you to various places and you camp some of the time and stay in hotels and tree houses and all sorts of other weird accomodation ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Pamukkale

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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