photo post #3
ok guys. here is my final post from turkey. i'll be back home on monday. i'm gonna be a little sad to leave, but very happy to see all of you again. the people here have been really nice to all of us and have made us feel at home. so here are the photos. i'll probably do a bigger post once i get home, but this is it for now...
this is an ancient roman grave yard. i know you can't tell from the photo, but it is right at dusk (8:30-9pm?), and the best part about it is this photo was taken on friday the 13th! yeah! i was in an ancient graveyard on friday the 13th. it was kind of errie.
for the last 2 weeks of the trip we traveled around turkey on a bus visiting places with historical significance. our bus driver was named yuksel. this guy was the best driver ever! he got this huge bus in places i wouldn't try to get my truck into. our guide's name was enis and he was really full of knowlege. if there was a question about anything he could answer it. for serious! this is the veiw from mine and bryce's room at one of the hotels we stayed at. nice huh?
i think i might have posted this photo before, but i don't really remeber...it is us (joe, marya, erika, duncan, brisbane, laura, me, and ashby and ken in the front) on top of a caravansaras (i think that's how you spell it). it is basically an ancient truck stop.
so on this trip i have done some things i thought i would never do such as rock climbing, swimming (floating) in the ocean, and snorkling. we went snorkling on one of our free days in the mediterranean sea. it was so much fun. i saw some colorful fish and swam through several schools of them. i also saw a very large eel and numerous sea urchants.
here is a photo of the scuba diving/snorkling leader.
here is a photo of the captain of the boat. he was a really smart and funny guy.
on this trip we met this brittish girl and her botfriend who claims to have been in the last 2 harry potter movies.
(ledt to right: ray (the boyfriend), brisbane, me, erika, marya, ken, cet, laura (the allegied actress), luz, kim, and molly. front row: joe, ashby, and laura.)
sadly there was a huge foreat fire on the aegeon coast while we where there. our guide enis was pretty bummed about it and sad it was the work of terrorist. he believes it was started to convince the people to build stuff there because after the fire nithing will be there.
pure cutness! i figured this photo would follow the depressing one nicely. these puppies were chilling at one of the temples of zues.
here are 2 trees that acording to myth used to be people. the story goes that the couple had did a favor for zues and as a reward he would grant them a wish. they were so in love that there wish was to die together when there time on earth was up. one day while they were working in the garden they noticed that they couldn't move and when they looked down there feet had becan to grow into the ground as roots. and that's how the trees got there.
this was a large theater around the same place as the temple of zues. i believe it was in ephesis.
a sunset.
and another. this one was taken at some hot springs. they were called the cotton mountains or something like that (i'll look into that). they became white because of calcium deposits over millions of years.
here is another photo from the same place.
and just incase you weren't sure if your fake watch was fake, you can go to ahmed and he will give you low price. very cheep. hand made. with a sign like that how can you not trust him?
the house of the virgin mary. it is believed that mary spent her last days at this sight. the house is a reconstuction of what it might have looked like. since she drank the water from the spring it is considered holy water. i had some and it tasted like regular water, but it did tast better than the last holy water i got from the mission on the huge hill.
the ruins of troy.
this is a modle that the city built to remember the story of troy and the trojan horse as told in homer's the iliad.
and here is the one used in the movie. i like this one better.
this trip has been a real good learnign experience. i can't wait to share more stories with you guys. until then, take care.
love
mike
this is an ancient roman grave yard. i know you can't tell from the photo, but it is right at dusk (8:30-9pm?), and the best part about it is this photo was taken on friday the 13th! yeah! i was in an ancient graveyard on friday the 13th. it was kind of errie.
for the last 2 weeks of the trip we traveled around turkey on a bus visiting places with historical significance. our bus driver was named yuksel. this guy was the best driver ever! he got this huge bus in places i wouldn't try to get my truck into. our guide's name was enis and he was really full of knowlege. if there was a question about anything he could answer it. for serious! this is the veiw from mine and bryce's room at one of the hotels we stayed at. nice huh?
i think i might have posted this photo before, but i don't really remeber...it is us (joe, marya, erika, duncan, brisbane, laura, me, and ashby and ken in the front) on top of a caravansaras (i think that's how you spell it). it is basically an ancient truck stop.
so on this trip i have done some things i thought i would never do such as rock climbing, swimming (floating) in the ocean, and snorkling. we went snorkling on one of our free days in the mediterranean sea. it was so much fun. i saw some colorful fish and swam through several schools of them. i also saw a very large eel and numerous sea urchants.
here is a photo of the scuba diving/snorkling leader.
here is a photo of the captain of the boat. he was a really smart and funny guy.
on this trip we met this brittish girl and her botfriend who claims to have been in the last 2 harry potter movies.
(ledt to right: ray (the boyfriend), brisbane, me, erika, marya, ken, cet, laura (the allegied actress), luz, kim, and molly. front row: joe, ashby, and laura.)
sadly there was a huge foreat fire on the aegeon coast while we where there. our guide enis was pretty bummed about it and sad it was the work of terrorist. he believes it was started to convince the people to build stuff there because after the fire nithing will be there.
pure cutness! i figured this photo would follow the depressing one nicely. these puppies were chilling at one of the temples of zues.
here are 2 trees that acording to myth used to be people. the story goes that the couple had did a favor for zues and as a reward he would grant them a wish. they were so in love that there wish was to die together when there time on earth was up. one day while they were working in the garden they noticed that they couldn't move and when they looked down there feet had becan to grow into the ground as roots. and that's how the trees got there.
this was a large theater around the same place as the temple of zues. i believe it was in ephesis.
a sunset.
and another. this one was taken at some hot springs. they were called the cotton mountains or something like that (i'll look into that). they became white because of calcium deposits over millions of years.
here is another photo from the same place.
and just incase you weren't sure if your fake watch was fake, you can go to ahmed and he will give you low price. very cheep. hand made. with a sign like that how can you not trust him?
the house of the virgin mary. it is believed that mary spent her last days at this sight. the house is a reconstuction of what it might have looked like. since she drank the water from the spring it is considered holy water. i had some and it tasted like regular water, but it did tast better than the last holy water i got from the mission on the huge hill.
the ruins of troy.
this is a modle that the city built to remember the story of troy and the trojan horse as told in homer's the iliad.
and here is the one used in the movie. i like this one better.
this trip has been a real good learnign experience. i can't wait to share more stories with you guys. until then, take care.
love
mike