Bergama Vacations, Bergama Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Located on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, ancient Pergamum was renowned for its great library (second in size only to the library at Alexandria in Egypt). It was also the birthplace of Galen, a Greek physician whose importance to the development of medicine is considered to be second only to Hippocrates. Pergamum was also one of the seven churches of Revelation, to whom St John sent the Book, warning of the apocalypse.

The ultimate study abroad experience-- twenty eight students, three professors, forty cities, fourteen countries, four months.

This blog will recall my first 'big trip'; my 1999 holiday/travel to the Middle East, travelling over land. I will create/update the posts as it was nine years ago, so the first full post will show at the end of this month.

 We woke up early again this morning and got back on the bus. I was more awake than the previous time we had to be up so early, but our guide didn’t say much early in the trip so it didn’t really matter. We had gotten some snacks at a grocery the night before, but I wasn’t as eager to tear into them as I’d expected to be. Instead I did some puzzles and tried reading a bit. I believe the trip from Çanakkale to Bergama was longer than the trip from Istanbul to Bursa, but I’m not...