I get to leave for Turkey in just three days! It's a little crazy just thinking about leaving for two weeks since we only recently moved in, but I'm excited nonetheless to have an adventure. This trip is for course credit with my Master's program, so the bulk of it is planned for me, however a friend and I are going five days early to see a little more of the country on our own.
Five days by ourselves isn't a lot of time considering how large Turkey is, but luckily there seems to be a nice transportation system and a large tourism industry, so I don't think we'll have a problem getting around. For the class credit portion of the trip we will be visiting three cities: Istanbul, Ankara and Gaziantep. Here is a map to show you where we are going:
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We start in Istanbul, take a bus to Ankara, fly to Gaziantep and then fly back to Istanbul at the end. We have information about all of the things we get to see with the group, but honestly I am mainly focusing on the first five days of travel since that is what my friend and I have to plan ourselves! I will be sure to update along the way, or probably once I return about this portion of the trip. For now, here is where my friend and I are going on our own for five days:
Five days by ourselves isn't a lot of time considering how large Turkey is, but luckily there seems to be a nice transportation system and a large tourism industry, so I don't think we'll have a problem getting around. For the class credit portion of the trip we will be visiting three cities: Istanbul, Ankara and Gaziantep. Here is a map to show you where we are going:
View Turkey in a larger map
We start in Istanbul, take a bus to Ankara, fly to Gaziantep and then fly back to Istanbul at the end. We have information about all of the things we get to see with the group, but honestly I am mainly focusing on the first five days of travel since that is what my friend and I have to plan ourselves! I will be sure to update along the way, or probably once I return about this portion of the trip. For now, here is where my friend and I are going on our own for five days:
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We both arrive in Istanbul midday on Friday, and since we will have Istanbul time with the class portion, we decided to immediately head out of the city. We have a ferry/bus combo booked for midnight the day we arrive, so after an evening in Istanbul we're setting sail towards Bandirma, and then bus to Izmir by sunrise the next day. We have a hotel booked for one night in a nearby town, and we have our eyes on visiting Pamukkale which is a three hour bus away, but we don't have anything else booked. We are hoping it will be clear where we should go and what we should visit. It's only five days after all, so there isn't a whole lot of time to fill!
We will be back in Istanbul on the 15th at some point in order to meet up with our class group on the 16th. Here's to a fun couple of weeks in Turkey! :) I'll update when I return, or along the way if at all possible.
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