Blue Mosque
inside Blue Mosque
Palace Garden
Outside the Istanbul University
get in my belly
Other side of Bosphorus in Asia
Aya Sofya Museum (started as a church then converted into a mosque) inside they found mosaics which were covered up with plaster during the Byzantine empire, then when it was turned into a museum they were uncovered
Smoking flavoured tobacco
Apple tea
local policeman in Tuirkdag who helped us find a restaurant (he had a big gun)
Only cost us 8 turkish lira - cheap cheap!!
ANZAC Cove
Lone Pine
The trenches on the frontline
Statue of a Turkish Soldier
Turkish Monument
View from the Nek (four waves of Australian light horsemen were killed before they captured the enemy trenches)
Walking towards Chunuk Bair - Turkish inscription
English inscription
Turkish
English
Chunuk Bair (statue of Attaturk)
Chunuk Bair is the monument to the nz soldiers. There was a large attack by the nz soldiers to capture the sumit which they ended up holding for a day
Walking towards where we set up camp for the dawn service
The letter Ataturk wrote to the mothers of soldiers from nz & australia who lost their lives fighting for their country
The Beige Brigade Crew
Bugs that were sharing our sleeping bags (eewww)
Sunset over ANZAC cove
The Beige Brigade bandit
Kels and Jules!
View over looking ANZAC cove where the dawn service took place
Laying the wreaths
The last post
Ari Burnu cemetery
A photo of our Beige Brigade mascot
Walking from the dawn service ceremony towards Chunuk Bair
Turkish procession
NZ service at Chunuk Bair
Leaving Gallipoli - Fraser our awesome beige brigade tourguide who entertained us with a maori waiata - good times!!
Fraser and our Turkish bag man sharing a moment.
Our Beige Brigade mascot
Istanbul - Kiwi and Ozzie touch game which ended up turning into rugby (of course)
Ozzie and Turkish football match
With some of our beige brigade mates having a turkish tea
Annika, Kevin, Ariana, Jenna
Cappadocia - Pigeon Valley
The underground city where the Early Christians hid
Ihlara Valley
This is the oldest church in Cappadocia - it dates back to the 6th century AD
The river running through the Ihlara Valley
on the road again
Selime - cave monasteries
on our way back to Goreme (which is where we stayed)
Turkish Dancing night (this was very entertaining)
This turkish bellydancer picked some of the men out of the crowd to have a go at bellydancing - it was hilarious
some of the many fairy chimneys in Pasabgai - the most amazing landscape
our turkish tour guide Faruk - he was great
a small chapel
Rose Valley
This was the first Bascilica in Cappadocia (back in Christian times) overlooking Rose Valley
Goreme Museum (where there were once large monasteries, convents and churches hidden away in caves)
Avanos where we watched a pottery demonstration
The guy on the right is a renound turkish potter (apparently)
Crazy eyes!
one of the Turks on our tour entertained us with his guitar skills (he wasn't very good)
We went to a carpet shop where they demonstrated how they extract the silk from cocoons was actually very interesting
Check out the carpets on average takes between 6 months to 3 years to make one of these bad boys - that's some serious moolah!
Olympos - looking round the Roman Ruins
overlooking the beach down in Olympos (we went sea kayaking around here - was awesome!)
one of the many icecreams that were eaten by Kevin oink oink!
The tree house bungalows we stayed in
Check it out Jandal Whare
The Hangar Bar where we frequented for efes after a hard day (yeah right!)
Down at the beach after sea kayaking
