25 April – Gallipoli to Troy and Kocao Ba Yoru (Turkey)

We left Gallipoli early in the morning for the ferry to Canakkale and then onto the ruined City of Troy, the place of the wooden horse, myth or true no-one knows.


     The Wooden Horse of Troy         
                             
Troy is a conglomeration of nine cities built between 3000BC and 500AD with the outer walls built with a slope at the bottom and vertical tops so as to make it difficult for the enemy to climb them. One’s imagination is required to see from what is left how the various cities would have been in the past. It is possible to imaging the fighting in-front of the walls on what would have been the battlefield of the Trojan War.


Mudbrick Wall

South gate on the main street

Water pots, water pipes and grinding stones

The Music Theatre

The battlefield of the Trojan War

The sign to the toilets

From Troy we travelled to Aocao Ba Yoru where we drove up a narrow track to the top of a hill to camp for the night. The area was intensively cultivated with miles of olive trees to be seen and all were irrigated by miles and miles of plastic pipe, even up in the mountains. The area where we stopped was where sheep were kept as when we were putting up our tents the sheep were being penned up for the night in the hill above us with the villagers watching everything that we were doing. The villagers gave us some eggs and offered fresh water.

The hill bush camp at Kocao Ba Yoru