[AMA]: 5 months across Turkey, Egypt
Old trip - posting due to DM requests Places: Turkey - Istanbul, Izmir, Kas, Ankara, Agri, Kayseri, Trabzon, Batman, Konya, Pamukkale, Bodrum, Ephesus, Goreme, Terme, Samsun, Cannakale Egypt - Cairo, Luxor, Sharm El-Sheikh, Alexandria, Siwa, Wadi Hitan, White/Black/Crystal Deserts, Places seen: Hagia Sophia - saw the conversion from church/museum to mosque Topkapi Palace Blue Mosque Grand Bazaar İstiklal Caddesi Golden Horn Basilica Cistern Florence Nightingale Barracks Museum of Innocence Dolhambace Palace Galata Tower Taksim Square Hotel Pera Palace Serkici Station Maidens Tower Temple of Artemis Library of Celsus - night Masoleum Halicarnassus Knights Castle Pergama Acropolis Pamukkale Heriopolis Dived wrecks off Kas Anıt Kabir Museum of Anatolian Civilisations Gordia Mount Ararat climb - lots of skeletons on the way Ishak Pasha Palace + Kurdish villages on border Noahs Ark Building Point Kaymakli Underground City Devrent Pasabag Asiklar Vadisi/Goreme Open Museum Uchisar Castle Varda Viaduct Balloon Tours Fairy Towers Terme/Themyscira SS Bandirma Replica/ Bandirma Ferry Soumela Monastery Batman University Hayenkeyf + Tigris Movie Troy Horse Gallipoli fields Troy site Sogut - ertugul tomb Bursa - osman tomb Rumelihisari Mevlana Museum Nemrut Midan Tahrir Egyptian Museum Khan el-Khalili market Al-Azhar Mosque Cairo Citadel Sultan Hassan Mosque Rifaii Mosque Mohamed Ali Mosque Hanging Church Babylon Fortress SS Nile Peking Cruise Cairo Tower Great Sphinx Pyramid of Khafre + Funerary Pyramid of Khufu Pyramid of Menkaure Solar Barque Museum Pyramid Light Show Baron Empain Palace Saint Samaan Tanner Monastery Dahshur - Red Pyramid Dahshur - Black Pyramid Dahshur - Bent Pyramid Step Pyramid - Saqqara Imhotep Museum - Saqqara Cairo Necropolis/City of Dead/Qarafa Suez Canal Valley of Kings Temple of Karnak - Treaty of Kadesh Temple of Luxor Ramesseum Temple Medinet Habu Colossi of Memnon Deir el Medina Valley of Queens Hatsheput Temple Tomb of Nobles - Luxor Red Monastery - Sohag Ptolemaic temple of Hathor - Qena Temple of Seti I - Abydos Temple of Horus - Edfu Philae Temple - Aswan Monastery of St Simeon - Aswan Abu Simbel Lake Nasser Diving - Thistlegorm Mt Catherine Monastery Mount Sinai/Mount Moses Mount Catherine Peak climb Lighthouse of Alexandria Library of Alexandria Citadel of Qaitbay Ras El-Tin Palace Montaza Palace Stanley Bridge Serapeum and Pompey's Pillar Kom el-Shouqafa catacombs Abu Qir Bay Fort Julien Rosetta Stone copy El Alamein War Museum Cleopatra Palace Dive White Desert Siwa Oasis Wadi Hitan Park - whale bones in the desert Faiyum Oasis Black Desert Crystal Desert Bahariya Oasis Total Budget: 12K USD Travel Type: Solo Fun: 1 (backpacker in Istanbul) Accommodations: 3/4/5 star hotels with good wifi Transport: Self-drive car (mostly 4WD in Egypt), flights, trains, camel (for West, East, Sinai deserts of Egypt), tabbing on my own feet Work-Life Balance Slightly difficult - worked till 2 AM local times to stay in tune with US PST Visa Type: Turkey - online application Egypt - visa - but they did not even check when boarding from Turkey Gear: 1 backpack with laptop etc 1 duffel with climbing, scuba gear # of photos: 2000+ Previous posts East Africa - https://www.teamblind.com/post/[AMA]-2-months-across-East-Africa-k07npMcK Morocco - https://www.teamblind.com/post/OGpeSyF0?cid=22545079 Mexico - https://www.teamblind.com/post/[AMA]-2-months-in-Mexico-E7wVEQib General - https://www.teamblind.com/post/[AMA]-remote-worktravel-during-covid-lockdown-i3SSTGCr
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Are you for reals. And looks like you've done this in other places too. I haven't been jealous in the past few years on blind. People with 800k to a 1M TC. Okay whatever. But this. This is what I wanted to do throughout my 20s. Sigh. Wife. Kids. Not happening anymore in my lifetime. Wife is too weak to travel like this (not sick but physically can't endure travel even remotely close to this).
Thanks amigo - I'm lucky I guess. I don't have any responsibilities in life, so I fill the void in my life with these things 😀 I hope you get an opportunity to travel also. I spent my 20s saving money, reading and planning adventures and securing my financial independence, so now trying to enjoy life with songs in my heart, the winds in my hair, sun on my face and stories of adventures in my mind.
Good ads Airbnb. But srsly amazing trips :)
not ads - i detest my employer, team utterly but thanks :)
You are a legend
thanks - just a simple man with a big imagination for now
Are you an US citizen or did you get visa for all the above places?
not a US citizen. visa for all places.
ohh man... that sucks. kudos for the patience
How long did you work before you felt taking this risk of traveling and working was feasible
About 5 years, following which I figured out that all work and no play make Jack a dull boy 😉
That is what they say lol
How was your experience in Egypt? Have heard only bad things. Turkey on other hand is nice place.
i had a good experience - there were no tourists as this was start of the pandemic - so I lived like a pharaoh for cheap in 5 star hotels at 50 usd a night. i also had the entire giza pyramids to myself, so enjoyed myself taking a starlight tour of the pyramids on camel, visiting Qarafa the city of the dead where people live among tombs etc - really good fun i enjoyed turkey and egypt - turkey was more modern while egypt was like going back in time
How long does Airbnb allow you to work internationally? I want to do something similar but can only work outside US for 30 days. So I’ve just been doing domestic travels
they dont ask, i dont tell ....
So when you login on your work laptop, their internal network can't detect that you're logging in from Turkey/Egypt? Were you using a US vpn?
Are you on H1B?
No comment on visa status- sorry
What does fun:1 mean lol
Horizontal calisthenics
I am jealous😿
Thanks amigo - I lead a charmed life 😉