On my way back

Hi, Well this is the end of my trip and i had a wonderful time seeing new things so now im on my way back to NZ so ill see you all soon!

Mummies!!

These are the mummies that have been there for hundreds of years from the people who were at war a long time ago. This is also in the Ancient city of Palmyra in a museum called Palmyra Archeological museum.

Roman Empire in Syria

This is the Temple of Ba'al and is considered the most important religious building of the first century AD in the Middle East. It was built by the Roman Empire hundreds of years ago. This place was the colonnaded street that goes 200 kilometers which starts at the city of Palmyra and rides to the city of Damascus.

View from the castle

This is the view from the castle of the desert. They put castles on high places so that they have an advantage of having the view to see who and when people are coming too get ready for a battle. Syria is one of the most historical places in the world, it has every historical merchandise and the richest history in the world.

Exploring the castle

This is the inside of the castle and it is like this everywhere in the castle but there is bedrooms but you can't go inside because they are too dark. There is a guillotine where they used too slaughter people if the betrayed there army or if they find enemies around. They would kidnap them or just kill them with a bow n arrow.

Salah Al-Din's castle

This is The Great Sultan of Egypt and Syria's castle that has been there for 900 years. It was used for wars against the Crusaders many years ago. This is the mountain in the middle of the desert. People lived in this castle and the temperature rises to as high as 50 degrees Celsius.

Palmyra, Syria (Desert)

In the Ancient city of Palmyra which is surrounded by hundreds of kilo meters of desert and that is the city from the top of The Great Salah Al-din's castle which he and his followers built at the top of the mountain 900 years ago and the castle is still standing today.

Syrian Sweets

These are Syrian sweets that we found in the capital city of Syria called Damascus. These are all different types of sweets such as: Baklava, Kunafi, Mamool, Majuka, Halowi and many more. They are all made out of pastries, dates and nuts and when its made its very delicious.

Sofia Bulgaria

This is the Government house in the capital city Sofia where the high council discusses matters related to the country.

Serres, Greece

This is the city of Serres in Greece from the mountain Akropolis and its a small city in the northern part of Greece 50km away from Bulgaria.

Pomporovo Bulgaria

These are old Bulgarian houses in southern Bulgaria near Greece. People live in some of them and others are like tourist attractions. This area of Bulgaria is famous for its Winter tourism as it has one of the best ski fields in the Eastern Europe region.

Aegean Sea!!!

This is the Aegean Sea in Greece but the area is called Asprovalta and its a really nice place to be thats us in the water and as you can see the water is black.

Greece!

On the 5th of August we went to Greece with a car from Bulgaria. My Great Uncle lives in Greece and this is his house and thats him in the background. In Greece we went to the Aegean Sea to swim and it was really fun. It got so hot during the day that the temperature raised up to 45 degrees Celsius! The Aegean Sea has black salt water and the water gets really hot in the middle of the day.

Every spring they migrate to Bulgaria in this village. They bring the eggs and they wait for them to hatch and then the parents teach them how to fly and stuff like all birds do.

This is a bird nest that has been in Komuniga for over 60 years and they all keeping re producing each other so these are the new birds, they cant fly yet they are big but they are learning to fly now which is cool. This nest is right outside my grandmas house and every one can see the nest from far because its on a very high electricity post.

My cousins working on the tobacco!!!!

Hi, this is a picture of me and my 2 cousins working on tobacco and you can see how much tobacco needs to be in the arrow. On the right is my cousin called Ismail and he is 11 years old and on the left with the orange shirt is my cousin Selmar who is 9 years old and they work every day her at the top of the mountain in Komuniga and they work so they can help there grandma and grandpa to survive and themselves as well so us in New Zealand are lucky because you guys don't even know what that is and how to do it and for them its there whole life until they get married or go study in another city.

Bulgaria!

This is my Grandmas house in a Turkish village in Bulgaria called Komuniga. It is a big village but it has lots of stuff like a shop for food a restaurant, a cafe, a soccer stadium and schools so lots of people live there roughly about 200-300 people live there and lots of kids live there that work every day of the summer picking tobacco leaves, putting them into metal arrows and then it gets sold to the factory and its not illegal here and you feel really lucky when you look at them and see how hard they work in summer when it gets up to 50 degrees without getting 5 minutes to play and thats how my mum was like when she was a kid so there is a story and there will be pictures of the tobacco leaves and my cousins working for there grandma and grandpas to survive.

Hi, this is the lake they own and the boat they have and it separates Bulgaria and Greece from each other so its easy too go from one country to another in Europe. On the right is me and some other people on the boat down the lake and on the right is me and other people preparing to go out to the lake on their wharf.

On the left we have me and mum sitting on those chairs and there is the pool which is really nice and clean and blue! On the right is a frog that I caught swimming in the pool but they always go there but not anymore because I threw them back into the lake they own.

These are 2 pictures, the one on the left has me, Vanya (the owner) and the other guy i dont know his name but he looks after the house while they are not there. And it has animal cages because in the villa they have there own mini zoo which contain reindeers, peacocks, swans and many more birds. On the right is a picture of just outside the downstairs dining room. It is like an outdoor hallway and it is nice but they have too many flys and wasps and annoying flying creatures like that.

Bulgaria!!!

Hi, When we arrived in Bulgaria we went to our friends villa to stay at for 2 nights and this picture shows the huge villa from a front view and it looks great. These people live in a city called Lyubimets which is 35km away from this villa but they go there every week because its not that far.

Pictures!!!!!!!

These are photos of Sun Hwa Park as you can see the sign. It is a beautiful park to go for a walk in because you can see many many different decorations and flowers and many other stuff!!

Our Hotel called The Ramada!

This is a photo of my hotel room in Korea, the hotel was called the Ramada and its was a luxurious hotel to stay at! It had complimentary Breakfast Lunch and Dinner. We stayed in a 2 bedroom suite and the room i am in, in the picture above was my room and down the hall on the left u can see was my parents room. It was a fun place to be and i was fascinated by how clean Korea was and every male person you walked past wore a full suit and was holding a small suitcase. I will be posting up more pictures and these pictures have the whole city of Seoul in them so look at the pictures and see what Korea has and see how nice it is to be there!

This is a picture of Seoul on an overview and it looks beautiful doesn't it!!! Am I right?!?! The picture says it all! You can the whole of the city from this and the best part was that it was the view from our hotel room!!! Well thats the magnificent Seoul right there.

On the left is the beef with vegetables which included a bread roll, a bit of cheese cake and some salad on the side which was the one i ate and i thought it tasted very delightful! On the left we have beef with noodles with soup, salad and also a bit of a cheese cake which my mum thought was very original.

Hi, this is the plane me and my parents took from Auckland to Korea, Seoul and from Korea, Seoul to Turkey, Istanbul. It was Korean Air which was a great airline to fly with. It was a 12 hour trip for both flights so it was quite boring but it was still a good flight. The food we ate on the plane were beef with vegetables and beef with noodles and soup, the pictures of the food will be posted up above this. So after all the travelling it all payed off and we landed in Korea, Seoul. It was fun in Seoul because there was many things that i hadn't seen before which i thought were very astounding! Thats it for now and i will be posting up soon about Europe!!!

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