unfortunately i kenna lao sai on the last day in turkey, and i tell u, having lao sai on the 12 hours flight from turkey to sg is no freaking joke. but this lao sai was more mild as compared to the lao sai i had on the last day of the hk/macau trip last year dec. i remembered that on the flight back to sg from hk, i need to go to the toilet and lao once every hour. but luckily for this time i only went about once per 4 hours. :p
anyway i am feeling much better. yesterday darling came to find me and we went to eat frog leg porridge at the coffee shop downstairs! wow i really miss the delicous sg food. but i miss darling more. haha.
ok i shall now start to blog about the turkey trip! as you all had known, i ran 42 km in the morning, and at night i took the horrendous torturous 12 hours flight to turkey. actually the flight had a short transit at dubai for one hour, but the stupid thing is we cant go out to the dubai airport and have to remain on board the plane. so from sg to dubai is 6 hours, plane stop at dubai airport for one hour, then from dubai to turkey is 5 hours. anyway i was so tired thanks to the marathon, so i slept alot throughout the flight, thankfully i din suffer any cramps throughout the long journey.
this is a funny video clip to share with everyone. when you are on the plane, and the captain is making the pre-flight announcement, i am sure that this is the announcement that you definitely wont want to hear.
finally we reached turkey at seven am local time. i eagerly scanned through the tour group to see if got any chio bus. actually got one lady who is quite gorgeous, but too bad she came with her husband. hahahaha. nvm my darling is more gorgeous than her. anyway that lady is also a teacher and she is teaching in a primary sch located in the east. and i also found out that there were quite a few teachers in the tour group.
so we started our istanbul tour. we walked through the site of the ancient Hippodrome, once the sporting ground for racing of chariots.
and then we went to the Blue Mosque, which is the largest religious complex in istanbul. women need to be adequately dressed in order to go inside the mosque, so cannot wear mini skirts or spaghetti straps or tube tops. but of course now is the winter season and no lady will be in the right state of mind to wear so little. unfortunately, or should i say hilariously, at the entrace of the mosque, the attendant gave my sis a sarong to wrap her lower body because she was wearing leggings.
we took a few nice shots in front of the Blue Mosque.
the next place that we visited is the Topkapi Palace. this is a museum palace with a wide collection of porcelains and treasuries. the palace also have a very nice garden with awesome looking trees of peculiar shapes which u can nv find in sg.
and this is our first turkish meal. KEBABS! it was delicious because all of us were extremely hungry, and because this is our first time eating the kebabs. subsequently we were quite sick of it. bleah.
after lunch, we left istanbul and took a ferry to bursa. the ferry is very big and can fit many cars and coaches. this is a very similar kind to the ferry that we took at japan. on the ferry got one turkish woman keep bio-ing me and smiling at me, and i feel a bit threatened. and then got another pair of female tourists keep walking past me and giggling to each other. but the pair of female tourists were quite pretty. haha.
(if you think that i am going to show the photos of the pretty tourists, i am afraid you will be disappointed. hahahaha.)the sian thing about going turkey in the winter is that the sun rises very late in the morning, and sets very early at night. at five pm the sky is very dark already and u cant do any sight-seeing. once we reached bursa its already six and so we went to the hotel to relax and have dinner. and our hotel is holiday inn bursa!!! cool!
(nice hotel room! with free wireless provided inside the room!)the nice thing about this whole trip is that our breakfast and dinner is always at the hotel, and it is BUFFET!!! hahaha. eat until very shuang. for dinner they will have a section for cold appetizers such as salad and other weird weird stuff which i dun dare to try; a section for the hot food such as butter rice, pasta, meat, vegetables; a section for the soup of the day and bread to go with the soup; and lastly a section for desserts comprising of cakes, pudding and many other kinds of sweet stuff!
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