Otobüs - Gün 6

A small cruise ship, seen from our hotel room balcony


The view of Kuşadası from the other direction

We spent our morning waiting until 10:30am, when we could catch a bus to İzmir (2 hrs). So, we wandered around Kuşadası's Grand Bazaar as the only tourists in town. We made some okay bargains, being the first customers of the morning. I bought my sixth scarf and mom bought some evil eye earrings.

We got to İzmir okay, and found our next bus to Çanakkale. It was a 6 hour drive up the coast, but it was during daylight so we could see the scenery we were passing through. A large part of the journey took us through huge olive tree orchards.

Çanakkale is a small city-ish town. It has a few nice places to eat and it's fairly active with the locals walking about. It's fairly asleep during the off-season, but in the summers (and especially around ANZAC Day) it's packed with Australians.

We stayed at Anzac Hotel, which was an okay place. Their partner hostel (I suspect), Anzac Hostel, operates the tours. Everyone over there speaks English with an Australian accent, even the Turkish tour guides.