Kusadasi, Turkey, May 9th, 2011

Kusadasi, Turkey - Due to the ongoing issues in Egyptian Politics the planned stop in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt had to be cancelled for safety reasons.  So we sailed directly from Israel to Kusadasi, Turkey.  We were a bit disappointed in not seeing Cairo but were pleased that our cruise line did not totally cancel all stops in Egypt as many if not all the other cruise lines completely by passed Egypt due to the unrest.  We did not witness anything that may have given us concern, they did mention there was a larger presence of armed security at many of the tourist sites in case there were some radicals that wanted to start something.

Anyway we ended up going to Kusadasi a port Sam and I had just visited three years previously.  We decided not to do any of the tourist sites as we had done them all on our previous trip.  We opted to just wander around town and Sam wanted to look at some carpet stores.  Unfortunately ( J ) she didn’t find anything that really caught her eye.  She was looking for a carpet to replace our dining room one. 

We spent one full day in Turkey then set sail for Greece in the evening where we disembarked on May 10^th after 45 days on the ship.  All in all I would consider this particular cruise well worth taking as it allowed us to see a lot of spots in the world that we may not have travelled to on our own.

                                                                               
                                                Market area with Mosque in background

                                                                  Our ship in the port

Kusadasi from the tip of the harbour