Aegean Coast

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• Selçuk and Ephesus: Doin’ the Ruins

  Blog: 12FOOT3 - 9 December 2009

  Selçuk is a very common stop on the Turkish backpacker route and it’s not hard to see why: it’s located on the Aegean but it’s pretty much the midpoint between Istanbul and the Mediterranean coast (located 9 hours from Istanbul and about the same from Fethiye), and it boasts some of the best-preserved Greco-Roman ruins [...]

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• When East Meets West, Istanbul Is The Literal Definition

  Blog: EZGuler - 26 August 2009

  It's not easy to cast my biased aside. Afterall, I did spend six healthy and happy years in the centre of the city everyone, for some reason, regardless of the fall of the Roman Empire, still calls Constantinople. It's a nostalgia thing, I imagine. However, the Ottomans weren't the only ones who conquered Istanbul and made it their own. I can count on my two hands the number of people I know who have arrived in the pristine, shiny new Ataturk Airport, wide-eyed and hopeful that they would survive to tell truly amazing stories about their trip to Istanbul.

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