More Bus Riding

Aleppo to Adana: Crossing into Turkey

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May 27th 2010
As Ava and her Mum were heading in the opposite direction to us (they were going Turkey to Jordan), we all went to the bus stop together. We said a warm good-bye and then they caught the bus south to Damascus and we headed north to Aleppo. Getting off the bus at Aleppo station we were faced with the usual barrage of taxi drivers with an endless reel of questions “Where you go?”, “You have ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Mediterranean » Adana

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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