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Bursa Day 2

6th February.

We start our day with a chicken soup breakfast at Hacibey.

Then, we started to try and take a walk to the ski resort at Uludag.

But it seems impossible.

Instead, we took a Van.

The journey took about an hour to reach the peak mountain.

One of the main point of the journey, Ski.

Yeah at first everyone didn't know how to do it.

Everyone scared to ski.

Everyone fell down.

"Whoops."

Everyone knock on each other.

But after a few collision and so

everyone started to adapt and ski 'well'.

Wawan was the most impressive one.

After about 2 hour of ski, everyone started to get tired.

The actual plan was to play all day long.haha

Oh yeah.

Our plan was to get to Istanbul by bus that will depart from the terminal bus station at 5p.m

We raced (as usual) to get to the bus terminal and arrived 5 minute late

and (luckily/unluckily) the bus already left us.

So, change of plan.

From the Bus terminal at Bursa straight to Cappadocia at 10pm.

Hope we will not be late for this one.

The Happening Night of Bursa

This morning was a havoc.

Everyone rush to go to Ottogar Bus Station because not to miss our ride to Bursa.

It was unspeakably havoc

The eight of us got seperated from one another to two group

The first four travelers get a tram from Camberlitas to Aksaray

and noticed how much time we'll be spending to take a Metro from Aksaray to Otogar,

We decided to take A cab.

It was more of less like an amazing race.

At 10.02 a.m, we arrived there.

Wawan Rushed himself to the Izmer Tourism Bus Station to tell about our late in arrival.

Luckily the Turks are kind people,

They just say "No Problem, No problem" with a smile on their face,

(Not knowing if they felt otherwise inside)

So we tell them there are still four of us stranded by taking the Metro.

Almost 5 minutes later,

The final four safely arrived.

As soon as they get into the bus,

The journey was awesome,

We took a ferry to cross the Marmara Sea.

It takes roughly about 4hour to reach Bursa.

We arrived around 2p.m.
From there, we take a lunch of rice with cacikwhen Kamil make a new friend with some Bursaspor Fc fans because he wears Olympiakos muffler which he bought at Athens.
We took a bus again to go to the city of Bursa
We stopped at Ulu Camii
and once again we were lost.Faiz ask some locals the direction to our hostel at Inebeye Bl.
The Turks are very helpful in finding us our way,
Not like at Athens.
Okay we met teacher Ahmed at Gunes Otel.
He was very kind and has a history of meeting Malaysian student once from UK.
So we know the service will be good(although there are no WiFi.I can live with that)
At the evening we went outside and pray at Ulu Cami Mosque.

The mosque was build at 1399.amazing huh?

If you visit Bursa,

Then this mosque MUST be in your visiting list.

The Islamic Caligraphy here is exquisitely wonderful.

Bursa is not only place for ski you know.

Then, we went to see folksmusic at a tea shop as recommended by teacher Ahmed.
It was a great experince.
Teacher Ahmed said that after they are back from work, they always go there to play some music (release tension maybe).

Then we went for dinner at a Kebab shop to taste the famous Iskander Kebab.

At 9.00p.m,
Teacher Ahmed invited us along with an Australian couple and a Japaneese woman to see the famous Sufi Dance at their own school.

It was an amazing experience.
we were treated like a VIP there
We get a little enlightment about the Sufi Dance.
All I can say is
Our night at Bursa was wonderful.