Monday, December 29, 2008
yes i m finally back from turkey and kind of settled. house is still a lil messy. hmm. there are too many fotos (around 2000 of it) and so i shall just highlight certain stuff and choose certain fotos to upload!
its around 10 hr flight from singapore to istanbul. managed to watch 3 movies while on board the plane (turkish airline). once we touched down and leave the plane, i felt the cool air i've been longing for. the temp there during winter is fantastic!! cold and nice! the highest it went was around 15 deg cel i think but most of the time its around 5 deg cel and at times -3 deg cel where i played with snow for the 1st time in my life. haha! weee!
let me sum up the whole trip here in this paragraph b4 bringing u thru my journey in turkey. I feel the trip was good, even the weather played along well with us. The 1st half of the journey covered many mosque and outdoor historical sites, which involves a lot of climbing around. the weather was cooling, yet no rain nor snow yet, so the ground was dry and easy to move about. the later part of the trip it started to snow, which gave us a nice white xmas feel and the hot air balloon trip and cruise ride ended our trip memorably.
arrived in Istanbul!
the blue mosque!
inside the blue mosque
this is how the sell corn and chestnut along the street. Sg's tastier! haha.
Hagia Sofia Museum, was a mosque and church perviously.
went to this tower which used to be a light hse for lunch.
the view here is fantastic, with nice strong wind!
more view
The bus board a ferry and we went up the 2nd level for some seats
as the ferry starts to move, it became very cold and we decided to enter the cabin for some hot tea and a bite.
our 1st hotel beside the beach!
troy!
pergamon!
went to this leather apparels outlet, they did a fashion show for our tour grp, show casing their products. they make clothes and stuff for grands like gucci etc. i saw one which i like! clue for my coming bday! haha.
toilet with a marvellous view
my new bed i ordered from turkey ancient city.
ancient time toilet, talk abt privacy. the rich get slaves to sit there till the sitting area gets warm.
thats their national library.
and that is their concert hall, oh, elton john performed there b4, no joke!
behind us is the cotton castle, really nice!
more cotton castle ..
soaking our legs in the hot spring water!
love the view here!
1 waterfall please!
the kids here are so friendly and warm and nice!
this restaurant sure have a nice view.
and their chicken is fantastic!
more nice view ..
aww, aint she cute!
and so shy!
this is how their house is in like the village, not too shabby right.
yummy!
biggest ancient theatre in turkey.
woohoo! it snowed!
yup, its my 1st time! virgin snow experience!
the rocks behind me a moulded into that shape by the wind, look at the unique top, the art of nature.
turkish ice cream!
turkish carpet, one of their speciality, a small pc can cost up to $4k!
the bond fire night! its a must go! with nice traditional dances and amazing belly dancing moves and much more! 
ohoh and i got to experience how a traditional turkish wedding is done, haha, a number of guys will dance round the bride and she will decide who to pick! she picked me! haha! video is with me!
majestic view from above!
watching the sunrise from the hot air balloon is truly a nice experience!
officially a hot air balloon pilot!
white xmas!
time for a snow fight!
this is a fun restaurant night club for tourist!
the dancers here are not as good as the one at the bond fire one.
this one even look manly
but this guy here is a real entertainer and he is really good! in front of our tables are flags from our country. the whole place is filled with pple from different country like japan, china, germany, france italy, israel, and many more! he started to sing songs in all languages from dif countries. we were wondering wat song he is going to sing for singapore and he sang rasa sayang hey! we are singapore! and this is my country! LOL really entertaining and talented multilingual. and here i was sabo-ed to dance again!
and sabo-ed again to perform with this guy! so i can officially announced i have performed in front of the world! haha. when i went to the toilet, some stranger even pat me on the back and gave me a thumbs one! i got the video too!
more cute kids
posing beside an inverted medusa in the underwater cistern!
shopping time in the bazaar!
was searching high and low for a mac outlet! finally! check out their jeans!
all good things must come to an end!
the tour leader and local tour guide were a nice pair, always disturbing each other and making us laugh. the whole grps' a fun bunch, very friendly, warm, nice and chatty! gonna miss turkey and them!
posted at 12:11 AM