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TURKEY-2015

 WHERE EAST MEETS WEST ALONG THE SILK ROAD, WITH MYTHOLOGICAL RUINS FROM THE GREEKS, ROMANS, PERSIANS, OTTOMANS AND THE CHRISTIAN CRUSADES 

ISTANBUL

Istanbul’s Old Town

Hagia Sophia, Basilica Cistern, Topkapi Palace, Archaeological Museum, Chora Church and City Walls, Grand Bazaar, Spice Market, Mosque of Suleyman the Magnificent and Blue Mosque, Hippodrome and Egyptian Obelisk

Istanbul’s New District

Galata Tower, Pera Palas Hotel, Taksim Square

IZMIR – NORTH AEGEAN

Pergamon

SELCUK AND SOUTH AEGEAN

Ephesus, Priene – Temple of Athena, Didyma- Temple of Apollo, Bodrum

HIKING THE LYCIAN WAY

Fethiye, Xanthos, Letoon, Patara, Kekova, Ucagiz, Demre, Myra

ANTALYA & TURQUOISE COAST

Antalya, Termessos, Aspendos

SOUTHEASTERN ANATOLIA 

Malatya, Mt Nemrut- Mythological Gods and Goddesses, Ruins in State of Adiyaman

CAPPADOCIA CENTRAL ANATOLIA 

Open Air Museum, Rose Valley, Ihlara Valley, Whirling Dervishes

IRELAND-2016

It has been said that Ireland’s greatest export is it’s people. This sculpture outside of Westport in County Mayo is dedicated to those who never returned.

NORTHERN IRELAND

IRA deceased on Peace Wall-Belfast.

Counties Antrim, Derry, and Donegal.

Northern Ireland’s Wall on the Giant Causeway.

Sites such as the Causeway Coast and Brooding Atlantic Coast

SOUTHERN IRELAND

All those who wander are not lost – Connemara Coast

Counties Dublin, Sligo, Mayo, Galway, Offaly, Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, Kilkenny, and Wicklow including the cities of Dublin, Westport, Galway.

Sites such as Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery, Connemara bog, Aran Islands, Clonmacnoise monastery, Cashel fortress, and Wicklow Mountains.

RUSSIA-2017

NORTHWESTERN Russia

Resting spot of Czar Nicholas II and family at SS Peter and Paul   –   Saint Petersburg

Cities including St. Petersburg, highlighting the Tsars’ legacy and Veliky Novgorad with its reminders from WWII.

CENTRAL RUSSIA

The Demon by Vrubel in Tretyakov Gallery – Moscow

Cities include Moscow famous for the Red Square and the Golden Ring towns of Yaroslavl and Suzdal, a view of the past.

EASTERN Russia

Outside Central Kazan

Including the City of Kazan – Where West meets Middle East – And Home of Rudolf Nureyev

SOUTHERN AFRICA-2018

BOTSWANA

ZAMBIA

SOUTH AFRICA

SPAIN

BARCELONA

HIKING THE CAMINO SANTIAGO

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