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Internet in Greece is quite expensive which is why I haven't posted for a while. Since my last post I went to Pamukkale, then took a ferry to Samos, got stuck on Samos for 2 days because of bad weather, then went to Athens, which was the trip where everything seemed to go wrong, and then took a ferry to where I am now, Santorini.
Pamukkale was one of the highlights of my trip so far. Its about 3 hours away from Ephesus by bus. It means "cotton castle" in Turkish because of these white terraces. They don't look like cotton to me but they are so white it looks like someone bleaches them every morning before the tourist come. The city is formed by hot springs from the city of Hierapolis which flows over limestone, eroding it into carbon dioxide and calcium deposits. So the area of the terrace is white and has pools of water which stay warm all year round.
The city was also really cool because there is also ruins. It is in the middle of all these mountains. It is a newly excavated city and its so amazing because all these ruins are lying all around the grass.
After I left Pamukkale with the tour group I went back to the hotel and took a ferry the next morning to Samos where I was to catch a later ferry to go to Athens. Well, the weather at Samos was really bad. It was a sunny day but it was so windy. As I boarded the ferry I felt as though if I lingered, I would have been pushed into the sea. And the ferry workers yelled "quickly!" to all of us as we were boarding and threw us in.
So we sat in the ferry all night long. I was luck to cross paths with a group of 3 Austrialian girls who are super nice. I had seen them first in Istanbul and then they were on my same ferry. I was really tired when I boarded so I told them that I was going to go upstairs and take a nap. I woke up about 2 hours later and when I met them on the lower deck they were like, "do you know we haven't moved?". I thought, "Yeah, I'd figured you'd still be here. Its only been a couple of hours." But then they said, "No. We're still in the port. We haven't moved." I looked outside and saw for myself that the ferry wasn't moving. They informed me that the weather made it too dangerous for us to leave the port and that the crew was waiting for conditions to improve. Well we were on the ferry all night long: from 16:30 that Thursday to 9:00 the following Friday.
Friday when we "woke up" (it was hard to sleep as you can imagine) we found something to eat and went back to the ferry at 16:30. The weather was better that day and I made it to Athens the following morining at 8:00.
Athens... oh boy... it was quite a trip. One of those trips where nothing seems to go your way... I was there 2 days but it felt like I was there for a week...
Pamukkale was one of the highlights of my trip so far. Its about 3 hours away from Ephesus by bus. It means "cotton castle" in Turkish because of these white terraces. They don't look like cotton to me but they are so white it looks like someone bleaches them every morning before the tourist come. The city is formed by hot springs from the city of Hierapolis which flows over limestone, eroding it into carbon dioxide and calcium deposits. So the area of the terrace is white and has pools of water which stay warm all year round.
The city was also really cool because there is also ruins. It is in the middle of all these mountains. It is a newly excavated city and its so amazing because all these ruins are lying all around the grass.
After I left Pamukkale with the tour group I went back to the hotel and took a ferry the next morning to Samos where I was to catch a later ferry to go to Athens. Well, the weather at Samos was really bad. It was a sunny day but it was so windy. As I boarded the ferry I felt as though if I lingered, I would have been pushed into the sea. And the ferry workers yelled "quickly!" to all of us as we were boarding and threw us in.
So we sat in the ferry all night long. I was luck to cross paths with a group of 3 Austrialian girls who are super nice. I had seen them first in Istanbul and then they were on my same ferry. I was really tired when I boarded so I told them that I was going to go upstairs and take a nap. I woke up about 2 hours later and when I met them on the lower deck they were like, "do you know we haven't moved?". I thought, "Yeah, I'd figured you'd still be here. Its only been a couple of hours." But then they said, "No. We're still in the port. We haven't moved." I looked outside and saw for myself that the ferry wasn't moving. They informed me that the weather made it too dangerous for us to leave the port and that the crew was waiting for conditions to improve. Well we were on the ferry all night long: from 16:30 that Thursday to 9:00 the following Friday.
Friday when we "woke up" (it was hard to sleep as you can imagine) we found something to eat and went back to the ferry at 16:30. The weather was better that day and I made it to Athens the following morining at 8:00.
Athens... oh boy... it was quite a trip. One of those trips where nothing seems to go your way... I was there 2 days but it felt like I was there for a week...
posted by Nisha Broodie at 2:33 PM
1 Comments:
What a great travelogue!
You made it all come alive.
Good luck for the remaining part of the trip.
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