Hippodrome

Istanbul Day 3

Istanbul Day 3Hagia Sophia We are up and out shortly after 8am in order to have a better placement in line for the 9am opening of the Hagia Sophia Mosque. Getting there st 8:30am the line really snakes around the square in front of the mosque and is hundreds of people long and continues to expand quickly behind us. It starts to move ever so slowly at 9am.Due to renovations, …

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Jerash

 Jerash  On to Jerash I finally get the blog posted after breakfast and we leave the Ramada Resort on the Dead Sea and head to Jerash.We experience the worst traffic so far in Jordan while driving through the outskirts of Amman.Jerash is known as the best Roman site outside of Italy. It dates back 6,500 years.We walk through an area of tourist shops to get to Hadrian’s Gate. I am wearing …

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