Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Holiday

Last holiday, my family and I went to Turkey. We went to Turkey on 28th of July and come back at 6th August.

On the first day, we fly from Jakarta to Istanbul and it took 12 hours to arrive at Istanbul. As we arrived at Istanbul, we went to Blue Mosque, the mosque with the blue paintings inside. After Blue Mosque, we went to Hagia Sophia. Hagia Sophia is a museum, which is used to be a church and mosque before.

On the second day,we look the Asian side and the European side of Turkey using a cruise. After cruise, we went to Trojan Horse.

On the third day, we went to the House of Virgin Mary, which is believed to be the last place where Mary, mother of Jesus live.

On the fourth day, we went to Ephesus City, which is written on the bible. The city is now broken, there only thing left is the ruins. After Ephesus, we went to the Hierapolis / The White Traventines, where the minerals made the hot water baths.

After the 4th day, we went to Mevlana Museum, and Caravanserai. Mevlana museum is also a small mosque, where muslim people used to pray.

On 5th day, we ride baloon on Cappadocia. We can see the whole Cappadocia on the baloon. Then we went to Goreme Open Air Musem, where Christian people used to hide from the Romans Army. After Goreme, we went to Undergroud City, which also used to hide from Romans. After Underground City, we visited a family which lived in a cave house.

After visited Cappadocia, we went to Ankara, the capital city of Turkey to see Attaturk Museum, the museum of the first president of Turkey.

Then we come back to Istanbul to go to Grand Bazaar, the biggest bazaar in Turkey and we went home.

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