Pergamon

While we were in Izmir we also went to another ancient city. This one was called Pergamon, it was not as big or fancy as Ephesus but it was still awesome. We got on a bus early in the morning. It was a small bus and all that me and Seamus could do was look at our book. Then we got off at a small, poor part of town. I was not feeling so great about it at first, but when we got in a taxi and started heading up the mountain, it was better. 

One of my favorite parts of this day trip was that the city was built on the mountain. The moment we got to the top, we saw the gondola and instantly regretted taking the taxi to the top. The inside of the city was awesome, it was full of old pillars and towers and crumbled buildings. We walked around a bit and saw old broken down houses built of quartz. 

On the way in we saw a huge stadium. It was bigger than any big stadiums I had seen yet. It was also very steep, it was almost vertical. We had to go to it. We started making our way to the path, not even realizing the short cut tunnel. The moment we got in, I started climbing to the top. By the time I got to the top, I was sweating. Seamus was not far behind me. Then I wanted to go down. I started heading down the incredibly steep stadium, I had to be really careful. 

I took a very boring panorama of the stadium, it turned out to be completely flat. Then I looked down at the rest of the city. I realized that the little poor part of town that we got off the bus at must have been very different from the rest of the city down below. Eventually we started heading out of the stadium and back to the entrance/exit. This time, we wouldn't make the taxi mistake, we were taking the gondola. Our family managed to get our own little cable car. It was kind of scary but also really fun. It was pretty fast, and it got us where we needed to go. We didn't see anything very interesting while we were going down. From there we walked to the bus stop and got our bus home, we didn't realize our bus had wifi till the very end of the ride. I think we had a great time in Pergamon and I hope to see more ancient cities this trip.