A Travellers Guide to Turkey

Turkey is a secular country that stands between the East and the West straddling the Bosphorus between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara and the capital city Istanbul was once known as Constantinople and Byzantium and was the seat of Christianity in the East in the ancient world.  The country has warm weather for most of the year and lots of beautiful sandy beach resorts, outstanding ancient monuments such as the Hagia Sophia museum, which was built in the 6^th Century first as a church then used as a mosque and stone henges which predate Stonehenge in the UK by tens of thousands of years. Turkey was colonised over the millennia by Hittites, Greeks, and Romans, so is a fantastic country to visit if you love archaeology and ancient history. If you are travelling there from India you need a passport that has been valid for 6 months prior to your visit and a visa, which you can get from the Turkish Embassy. You also need a covering letter from your employer stating that you are on vacation and three months of bank statements as well as a return ticket and enough funds to cover your holiday as well as a hotel reservation.