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Friday, January 3, 2014

A Visit of A Lifetime - Day 3 and 4 Istanbul

Ferry started journey during midnight 130am. Air cond inside superb cold and we hardly grabbed enough sleep that night.

Reached Athens port in early morning about 7am. Just managed to see the city view from the bus journey which took roughly an hour plus.


It was taken when we alighted from the ferry. Huge crowd and we headed to bus stand. 

---Fly to Istanbul in the afternoon from Athens---

Day 4 in the Morning after breakfast, we passed by Blue Mosque. It is awesome!

Hagia Sophia 

We were there for about 2 hours. Very impressed with the historical place. 

None the least, picture of two. Cheers!
Tomatoes look tempting. Size and color just nice!

The vege are damn huge. I can consume it for days. 

Basilica Cistern. It is an underground mansion, very cool place even during sunny day. 

The Medusa Head inside Basilica Cistern


We didn't manage to go in Topkapi Palace. It is quite expensive per pax. 45TL if I'm not mistaken.
In front of Blue Mosque.  

Women are required to cover herself up when step in the mosque. 

Outside the Blue Mosque. 

The day ended when we took train to Otogar to take night bus to Pamukkale. 
It was a 11hours journey travelled from Europe side of Turkey to Asia Side. We experienced some hiccups inside the bus and along the way to there. Anyway, it was a nice experience !




Monday, October 21, 2013

A Visit of A Lifetime - Santorini Day 2

Woke up in the early morning at Villa Soula, Fira on 9th Sept. Had simple Greek breakfast before starting our long day Oia-Fira tour.
Simple butter bread with glass of orange juice more than enough to kick start the day


Breakfast done. Journey began with postcard writing and prepare to post out. To friends and family, we were here before. 
Wandering around Fira town and snapped photo with the Blue and White buildings. 
Towards the cable car stand. We saw this awesome view. It is the volcano island which we didn't manage to go. It is surrounded by blue deep ocean, spectacular. 

This is what we wish to see. White houses along the cliff, match with blue sea, splendid view. 



Taken by couple from western couple resided in Hong Kong. They just went to Mykonos Island and luckily they said Santorini is still nicest. Pheww...because we didn't plan to go there too. 

The numbers of steps from the old port to the Fira town. Don't fool by us, we were heading down actually. Hmmm... to be frank, actually just heading halfway. 
Back to our hotel's rooftop. The place directly under sunlight, too hard for me to open my eyes. 


Checking out. Cute little girl with backpack. 


Our quick lunch at Nick the grill again. Simple yet delicious. Pork grill stick is tasty! 
After simple lunch, got our Piraeus ferry ticket then we headed to Firostefani which is the town next to Fira. Heard that the big Blue Church is there. 


Ta da! Blue Church but taken not nicely. Angle problems actually. Opss. 

Walked around Firostefani. 
Felt really astonished with their buildings. Lovely built near the cliff and keep 'WOW' -ing all the way. 

The postcard images taken from our camera. 
Headed to Oia which is up at the tip of Santorini island. Not an easy drive for me, uphill road indeed killing me. 

It was too hot in the noon time. We just grabbed a seat at one of the restaurant at Oia. Enjoyed splendid sea view with pizza and drinks which caused us more than 40 Euro. We chit-chatted for quite long time, enjoying every single moment of it. 


She was glad with all this. Praying everything is going smooth in our future. *Love*



Posting near one of the Church. 



Too cute to resist. We bought some back for collection. 



Saw a lot of tourist included Chinese surely going for sunset at Oia spot. I could say, it was too crowded as compared to Akrotiri spot. 



Please catch the moment here. You will never regret. 


I know why people said Oia spot sunset is awesome. The picture speaks everything. 


People are enjoying sunset and proposal happened. Luckily I did my part the day before. It was too crowded spot. 





Done our sunset viewing at Oia. People jamming to go out from Oia. We also wished to get back to Fira before sky turned darker. When reached Fira, we grabbed some foods and walked around for souvenir and headed to Old port for ferry at around 1am. We reached rather early, and I was darn sleepy. Luckily managed to doze a while and to our stupidity, we stayed outside the port waiting for ferry but at the meantime there was a much warmer place inside. Awww.... too good! 

Day 2 in Santorini Ended and we took overnight ferry to Athens.