Tour Details;
Meet at Troy (Canakkale) Port –your hotel.Our guide will hold up a sign with your name on it. The tour beginning with modern city of Canakkale ,visit the museum ,cannon and clock tower.After that drive to Troy Ancient City,For most of the last 3000 years, people assumed that Homer's Iliad was fiction, and that Troy never existed.From seeing Troy's ancient walls, climbing around the ruins, and gazing across the Troad (the plains of Troy) towards the waters of the Dardanelles and the hills of Gallipoli beyond.Troy is impressive for its great age (the oldest ruins date from 3000 BC) and beautiful situation. The hokey wooden horse is just for fun ( especially for kids) . The Movie, with Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger, was released in May 2004. After the lunch drive to Assos Ancient cityAssos was an ancient harbor city which was also famed due to the stay of the philosopher Aristotle for three years as the head of a philosophy school. The Stoic philosopher Cleanthes was from Assos too. Lesbos Island in the Aegean Sea can be seen from here on clear days. Though it is not visited by many foreigners Assos is well known and has many of its archeological finds exhibited in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Louvre in Paris and the Museum of Archeology in Istanbul. With its natural appearance and exotic atmosphere rather than its historical background, Assos has recently become very popular among Turkish people.At evening return back to port or hotel.
