The Great Wall of China. One of the foreseen highlights of the trip. One of the greatest sights created, up there with the Taj Mahal and Great Pyramids, at least in my mind. So we did some research on it in the Lonely Planet Book our great hostel, The Red Lantern, lent to us. It […]
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Siem Reap
In fact, we actually did have Wi-Fi for the past month or so. We’ve just been lazy in posting, so now we are blasting through a flurry of updates to get y’all up to date. Two countries ago we were in Cambodia. On its flag, they have blue and red stripes, and a temple complex […]
Monkeys in Angkor Wat
On the first day in Cambodia we went to the ruins. We noticed monkeys on our way up. There were a lot of them in one place. It was like a pack. Mom asked to stop the tuk tuk to take some pictures of them. Once we took the pictures we drove on. On the […]
Return to Greece and Delphi
After our stay in Turkey we needed to pick up a plane to Thailand, and the only way to do that was to go to Athens and pick up the flight there. On our first visit I argued heavily to make a trip out to Delphi. But, with the strikes and all, and our limited […]
The Book on Ephesus
Yes, this is the same Ephesus that Paul preached at, and home to the church to which he wrote the book of Ephesians. It is also reported to be where Mary, the mother of Jesus, lived with the apostle John at the end of her life, and where it is thought they both were buried. […]
Bergama
On the 3rd of January we took a bus to Bergama. We hadn’t booked a place yet so we decided to check out a place called The Odyssey Guest House. It was on a small narrow street. When we got there we had to take our shoes off before we went inside. There were little […]
There’s Nothing New Under the Sun
After the day’s visit to Troy, we went on to Pergamon, now know as Bergama. We stayed in an old, stone, Greek house that has been restored for guests. Very cozy and quaint, it was also very drafty. In Turkey, being cold and drafty only matters for about two months of the year, and that […]
Troy
Hundreds of years ago this was the playing field of the Illiad, Homer’s enduring poem/saga/story. It tells of a quite violent war between the Trojans and the Greek over a woman. Dozens of people died, just for one person. A week or so ago, we visited it. The ancient city of Troy. You really couldn’t […]
The Acropolis
On our second day on Athens we took the long hike from our apartment to the Acropolis hill. One dog companion later, we arrived at the Parthenon. They had rebuilt an impressive amount, and half of the ruins were new marble bricks. We hiked through the ruins, and came out in a large open area […]
Petra
A week or so ago, we stopped in the small town of Wadi Musa. That towns main reason for existing was probably the nearby site of Petra. The second day there we got the incredibly nice people working at the hotel to drive us to the ancient city. The walk was long and strenuous, but […]
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