My Trip To Turkey

This summer (August) my family, including grandparents and uncles, traveled to Turkey. The reason we all went to Turkey was because my uncle recently married a Turk. The wedding took place in Minnesota, but for all the Turks that could not come we decided to have a big wedding reception in Turkey. This was the first time I had ever been on a plane. It was a 10 hour flight, which I think was way too long. The first day we arrived in Turkey we stayed and ate at our hotel in Istanbul. We were wiped out from the long plane ride. The second day we walked around Istanbul. Istanbul is the same size as St. Paul, but St. Paul has a population of 300,000 and Istanbul has a population of 17 million. As you can imagine there was barely any empty space there. It was buildings and apartments everywhere. After the first few days we rented a bus to take us down to Ephesus (city of ruins) which was located on the Asian side of Turkey. It was about a 8 hour drive to Ephesus. Ephesus had many ruins that have been excavated such as theatres, roads and libraries. After staying in Ephesus for about 2 days we drove 4 hours up to the city of Troy. Personally, Troy was one of my favorite parts of this trip. A lot of Troy was destroyed from previous archeologists, but there was still a lot to see there. After being in Troy for a day and a half we drove back to Istanbul which took another 4 hours. Once we reached Istanbul again, we explored many local cites where my new aunt grew up. She also showed us several Mosques (Muslim Churches). The Mosques had tilework everywhere in the inside. This trip took about 2 weeks. It was one of my most memorable experiences I have ever had.