In his latest blog post, Dale Dunlop, The Maritime Explorer, takes a tour around Pergamon – Visiting Turkey's Roman Stronghold. If you are interested in dates and prices for this trip please check out our Small Group Tours to Turkey.

This is the fourth day of the Adventures Abroad, Western Turkey Tour that Alison and I took to Turkey in October 2021. Yesterday we left Istanbul and toured the battlefields of Gallipoli and then visited the almost mythical site of ancient Troy. Today we are headed to Pergamon another ancient city. Unlike Troy which has nine layers spread over thousands of years, Pergamon is a very well preserved Greco-Roman site that sits on a mighty acropolis high above the Anatolian plain. It once housed one of the greatest of the ancient libraries, second only to Alexandria, and was one of the most important cities in the entire Roman Empire. It is a place I have wanted to visit since first reading about it as a boy. Please join our group as we visit this UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Here is a map showing our route in blue from Canakkale where we spent the night to the small city of Bergama above which are the ruins of Pergamon.

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In his latest blog post, Dale Dunlop, The Maritime Explorer, takes in Troy – Walking with Achilles, Ajax, and Agamemnon. If you are interested in dates and prices for this trip please check out our Small Group Tours to Turkey.

In the last post on this Adventures Abroad, Western Turkey Tour, we left the city of Istanbul and traversed Turkish Thrace to the WWI battlefields of Gallipoli. It was a sobering experience viewing the places where over 100,000 young men lost their lives, not for King and Country, but for nothing. In this post, we’ll leave European Turkey behind and cross the famed Dardanelles to Asia Minor where we will visit the remnants of another war, one whose legacy has lasted almost 3,000 years. Please join us as we visit the legendary city of Troy.

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In his latest blog post, Dale Dunlop, The Maritime Explorer, travels to Gallipoli – A WWI Tragedy Revisited. If you are interested in dates and prices for this trip please check out our Small Group Tours to Turkey.

It's the third day of Adventures Abroad, Western Turkey Tour and we are headed out from Istanbul after seeing some of the most interesting sites in that city including Hagia Sophia which I described in the last post. Today we are headed for two more of the most important sites in the country, Gallipoli and Troy. Our guide Yasemin Reis advises that this will be one of two long days on the tour, but assures us that it will be worth the extra time it takes to arrive at our hotel in Canakkale. So please join us as we travel through the ancient lands westerners called Thrace and the Turks Rumeli or Land of the Romans.

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In his latest blog post, Dale Dunlop, The Maritime Explorer, wanders around the Hagia Sophia – Church, Mosque or Museum? If you are interested in dates and prices for this trip please check out our Small Group Tours to Turkey.

In the last two posts, we finally got the Adventures Abroad, Western Turkey Tour underway with a bus tour of the Golden Horn and a walking tour of the Sultanhamet. We concluded the walking tour post at the Baths of Roxelana, but only because Hagia Sophia is worthy of its own recognition. Please join us as we visit what is arguably the most important church in Christendom even though it's now a mosque. After that, we'll conclude our tour of the Sultanhamet with a visit to the Cistern of Philoxenos aka The 1001 Columns.

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In his latest blog post, Dale Dunlop, The Maritime Explorer, is mesmerized as he takes in The Sultanahmet – Nothing Else Like It. If you are interested in dates and prices for this trip please check out our Small Group Tours to Turkey.

In the last post from this Adventures Abroad Tour of Western Turkey, we met our guide and driver and enjoyed an introduction to Istanbul by way of a drive around the Golden Horn. In this post, our guide Yasemin Reis will take us on a walking tour of the Sultanahmet district of the city. With Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Hippodrome, and much more this is without question one of the most important tourist destinations on the planet. Join us as and you will pretty well be awestruck by the architectural beauty and magnificence of the Sultanahmet.

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In his latest blog post, Dale Dunlop, The Maritime Explorer, finds himself at The Golden Horn – Touring the Heart of Istanbul. If you are interested in dates and prices for this trip please check out our Small Group Tours to Turkey.

This is a description of the first full day of an Adventures Abroad Tour of Western Turkey that Alison and I took in October 2021. Thanks to the pathetic state of the Turkish lira, at well under $5,000 Cdn this tour is one of the great bargains in travel today. In my first post from Turkey, I expounded on the reasons for visiting Turkey now with AA, although I did omit to point out what a bargain it really is. In the second, I introduced the Sura Hagia Sophia Hotel where we stayed both before, during, and after the trip. In the next two, we visited the fabulous Istanbul Archaeological Museums to get just a taste of some of the places we will visit on this tour. From hereon until the end of the tour I will describe the itinerary pretty well exactly as it played out from start to finish. Each day will provide enough material for at least one or more posts starting with this one on a trip around the Golden Horn. So let’s go meet our guide, our driver, and our fellow travellers and get this show on the road.

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