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About turkey
Turkey is a land steeped in history, with probably more and better preserved Greek and Roman archaeological sites than Greece and Italy combined. Scenically beautiful, with a warm hospitable people and justly celebrated cuisine - Turkey is a country perfect for sea and land-based adventures into the past. Just a four hour flight from the UK, it has a culture which is profoundly different, distinctly unfamiliar. A land on the very cusp of Europe and Asia, with two heads simultaneously facing both east and west, it embodies the magic and exoticism of the orient. Once nomads from Central Asia, the Turks were for centuries the middlemen of the world, famed merchants uniting three continents Europe, Africa, and Asia. Today, they are famed for their warmth & hospitality, a gift of their nomadic ancestry and Islam's code of respect for strangers in a strange land. When archaeologists dig in Turkey they are confronted by layers upon layers of peoples and cultures, from Hittite fortifications to Byzantine churches. Part of the famed fertile crescent, this land was a magnet and crossroads for civilisations. Add to that soaring mountain ranges, brilliant white sunlight, and a vast coastline stretching along three seas, the Black Sea, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean, and you have a truly marvellous holiday destination.
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