Turkey Day 11

Didn't sleep well and up early, the only plus to that is I was able to to see the hot air balloons again, they are a beautiful sight as the sun comes up though it was hard to get any good pictures because you had to look into the sun rise to see them.
Had breakfast and got ready to leave, I talked to the hotel staff and they told us to just wait out by our rooms and someone would be by to pick us up.  I asked if they could come by 9:40, we had a 10:00 bus to catch and that would give us plenty of time.  Well by 9:50 no one had showed up so I ran down to the other part of the hotel and the staff was outside, and when they saw me they were like, "No one has come?".  They scrambled around and about 9:55 someone came to get us.  Well it didn't make that much difference because we got there and they said that the bus would be about 20 minutes late.  After it arrived we were told this was not our bus to Ankara but a shuttle bus to Nevisher.  We arrived in Nevisher and had to wait again the bus was not there yet.  When it finally arrived we got our stuff on and the bus left the station headed up the road and turned around heading us in the right direction but stopped when it got in front of the bus station again where we waited for another 10 minutes.  After 10 minutes we left again only to drive just a little ways and stop again.  We were assuming that we would be in Ankara by 2, but it was well after 3 when we finally did arrive.

When we got there we hopped on the metro to Maltepe station and from there walked about 10 minutes to the train station.  We got our train tickets, put our stuff in a locker, which was an ordeal in itself, and caught a taxi to the Museum.

The Museum was very interesting, but I'm not to into museums, I'm sure if we would have had a guide it would have been more interesting.  There were a lot of beautiful displays and the interesting thing most of it you could touch if you wanted to.  I thought I should have stood on the pedestal next to this statue and put my arm around this statue, but I thought maybe better not.
From the museum we walked to the Citadel of the city, the oldest part of the city.  It was still walled and the shops and house looked like they had been there forever.  This is not the best shot but maybe  you can get some idea of the feel of the area.

The narrow main street was lined with shops, some touristy some just everyday shops.  We headed down the hill and the area was again lined with quaint shops, it looked very touristy but at the same time some of the stores were like hardware stores, fabric stores, spice stores, and bulk wool stores, very interesting.  We searched for a restaurant, and ended up going into a place that the entranced was almost blocked by the staff sitting outside,  we went in and upstairs, it was a very nice restaurant, but we were the only customers.

Walked to the train station where we sat and waited for our 10:30 pm sleeper train to Istanbul.