Pergamum, Turkey

Row of arches under the acropolis.

Our neighbors in our hostel were nice enough to give us a ride up in their little rental car to the top of pergamum. Smallie gave Tallie a ride up in his scooter too. We started by walking through the library ruins which was a wedding gift from Mark Anthony to Cleopatra. Looked down at Bergama from the temple of Athena. Walking on the side we found ourselves in a row of arches, which doubled as support for the Trajan Temple and as storage rooms.

Temple of Trajan


I walked through the Arsenal and the King's palace but I didn't find them too impressive. I found a nice shady spot next to the temple of Trajan and watch/listen to the loud Italian tourists walk by.

Theater seating 10,000 people with a birds eye view of Bergama


After losing Wai, I walked the premises twice and just decided to hang out with Anna and Maisie on the steps of the giant theater. A bit dizzying at that height since it is perched ontop of the mountain looking down onto bergama. We found ourselves a fig tree at the bottom, which to that day I have never had fresh off the tree. I'm sorry, the closest to freshness is fig newtens because my brother loves those cookies. But damn those figs are tasty.