Saskatchewan Snowbirds in Egypt: Pamullake

Town centre has its own thermal spring

Hotels take advantage of nearby thermal springs

Hieropolis: This city has the largest ancient necropolis (cemetery) in the Greco-Roman period. As this city was situated near hot thermal pools, the Romans came here to take advantage of the healing waters.

Tombs in the necropolis

Olive press for processing olive oil

A game of soccer

Gate to the city

Channel to carry fresh water

Playing with bubbles

Pamullake: Calcium and carbon deposits which collect pools of warm water. People can wade in the outside pools, or go inside for a swim in the naturally heated swimming pool.

Walking on pebbles.

We went swimming amongst capitols and columns.

We are going our separate ways tonight.

Cannallake: We visited the open air naval museum, and saw a replica of the mine layer used in WWI. This mine layer laid the mines to protect the strait from being invaded by the British and their allies. We also saw the copy of the Trojan Horse used in the movie “Troy” starring Brad Pitt.

Replica of a land mine layer

Naval Mines

Dardanelles Strait

Anchors used to hold the nets at the mouth of the Strait to stop submarines from heading into Istanbul.

Remains of a destroyed submarine.

Troy archaeological site: nine cities all named Troy on the one site including the famous Troy in Homer's poem.

Treasure was found here and taken to Germany. This picture shows how deep they had to dig to find the first cities.

Gallipoli site: British, Australians, New Zealanders, Indians, and Canadians fought to take Gallipoli in order to gain access to Istanbul during WWI. The Allies wanted to take Turkey out of the war. 300,000 (Allies and Turks) men lost their lives in the battles on Gallipoli. Allies eventually evacuated because it was a losing battle. This is also where Ataturk became known as a soldier and commander.

Commemorative ceremonies honoring all the soldiers (British, Australian, New Zealanders, Canadian, Turks) who died in this fight are held in August each year

Australia and New Zealand sent the most men to fight for the Allies

WWI was the last gentleman's war. A Turk was listening to the plaintive cry from an Allied soldier who had been shot. He was situated between the trenches and he couldn`t get back to his lines. The Turk raised a white flag, went to the soldier and picked him up, and carried the soldier back to the Allied side. The Turk then went back to his line.