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One of the place who still run steam train is North Yorkshire Moor Railway. We catch the train from Grosmont all the way to Pickering via Goathland and Levisham. Took family ticket cost us 30 pound for return.

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The trip started in Grosmont – Goathland – Levisham then Pickering. We were there in the winter just after new year. It was snowing quite a bit … Thats the only snowing in Doha during our holiday back in the UK

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Entrance fee for adult 3 YTL. And children free of charge. This is the place that my son enjoying the most ... The museum located 15 mins drive out of Selcuk.

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This enclosure for archaeological remains at Ephesus elegantly reconciles historic conservation with accessibility for visitors. The site of a succession of great ancient civilizations, Ephesus, on the south-west coast of modern Turkey, embodied a peculiarly fertile synthesis of architecture and culture.

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The impressive ruins of the Byzantine Church of St John mark the spot where St John the Evangelist was buried.

main gate of the church

The church is on the slopes of Ayasoluk Hill near the center of Selçuk (the town next to Ephesus), just below the fortress.

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St John is believed to have spent the last years of his life in Ephesus writing his version of the Gospel. Emperor Justinian (527-565 AD) believed that a tomb dating from the 300s was John's, so he built a great church above it in the 500s.

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Built in 1375 by Isa Bey, the founder of the Aydinogullan Emirate. It is an interesting example of asymmetrical architecture. The courtyard of the mosque was formerly surrounded by a gallery surmounted by domes, now no longer in existence. All the windows were in the same style. The marble carving is of the highest quality. The courtyard was later used as a cemetery.

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The mosque built on a plot 57 m long by 51 m wide.

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Running east west along Namik Kemal Caddesi and Inonu Caddesi stand the remains of Byzantine Aqueduct. Nowadays serve as a handy nesting place for storks. It is said that this type of bird coming back to the same nest year after year.

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Eggs laid late April or May and the bird stay right through till September.

Unfortunately when we were there we just missed the season.

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The first builder of the temple were said to be the Amazons. Plinus the writer reports that the temple was ransacked seven times in its history. During the Archaic period the temple burned by a madman named Herostratos in year 356 AD.

Nowadays the temple only left as a pillar ... you can overlook Ayasuluk Fort in the background.

Entrance fee : Free.

More about the temple :

http://en.wikipedia....

artemis temple

Tulamben has become Bali's most famous diving area and therefore where you are most likely to meet internationally recognised underwater photographers and writers. Tulamben Bay, like the rest of Bali, is situated in the richest marine biogeographic zone in the world. Being on the north-east coast, the bay receives very plankton-rich waters from the major ocean current that moves from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean. This, coupled with the fact that the three main dive sites provide totally different physical environments, mean that Tulamben contains a stunningly diverse underwater ecosystem.

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Initially, Flower Market Bratang in a piece of farm form, which is the alternative of choice of five-flower merchant that coming from Kayun/Kayoon Flower Market. They must move because their reason is less the farm broadness. Grow since year 1990-an across every alley with floor paving block as wide as less than 1 meter. The typical aroma of some flower is smell by the friendliness smiling of the flower merchants. It is for 2400 m2 farm precise in west side of Bratang Market, the merchants arrange interest ornamental plant and also leaf elegantly, clean and respected. More than 200 stands that owned by 65 merchants of vary size but generally fairish 3x4 meter.

grahadi from outside

Grahadi building is convention hall and the official resident of East Java Governor. See it’s a self remain as of the Dutch commissioner Dirk Van Hogendorp (1794-1798). Initially the front of Grahadi faced the river. During tea-hours in the afternoon, the occupants could see small vessels with passengers up and down the river. The small vessels used to transportation, they arrived and go by the small vessels. In 1802 the front side of building which originally faced the North, had changed into the South until the present time.

grahadi old canon

http://www.eastjava....