Wassup homies this is your boy 👦🏿 Jay Ass checking in 🔉*airhorn noises*🔉. Today we gettin higher 🙌🏿 than a kpod vaper 🚬 in one of them big ass balloons 🎈. Say whaaaaat? 🫢 Das right we never give up on our dreams 💭 till we get out da hood 💪💪💯💯. So let’s rock on ma boys 👦 and gurls 🧒!
We couldn’t leave Turkiye without experiencing a hot air balloon ride since that was the main purpose of our trip. That would be equivalent to visiting Osaka's Kuromon market to eat oden and Family Mart chicken.
Fortunately there were balloon rides available in Pamukkale and we were lucky enough to snag our seats. 多谢阿啦保佑.
Climbing into the balloon was an easy feat because i had much practice hopping in and out of the street soccer court to pick up Yong Ming’s stray balls.
Obligatory final group photo in case we float all the way to the moon, featuring a new Pinoy friend.
HAHA see you tomorrow that’s a good one but seriously you better be around later to bring our balloon down you bald bastard.
Having a freaking flamethrower right above our heads, while being trapped in a very flammable looking basket in the sky. This was not the relaxing activity i assumed it would be.
Hot air balloons work on the principle of buoyancy, using a burner to heat the air inside the balloon’s envelope. This makes the air less dense than the cooler air outside, causing the balloon to rise. Pilots control ascent by using the burner and descent by opening a vent to release hot air.
Since balloons have no engine or steering, the pilot directs the balloon by ascending or descending to find different wind currents at various altitudes. So if the wind decides that we are floating all the way to Syria, then we are floating all the way to Syria.
An aerial view of the travertines we visited the previous day looking like some snow mountain from Switzerland.
Cb really float sibei high 看下去 lan pa 痒痒.
Wew congrats on getting into the top 10 sights my eyes have ever seen.
Witnessed the sun rising above the horizon and lit up the surroundings.
You know the views are good when it resembles an AI generated wallpaper.
We flew over some abandoned ruins as we descended. Sibei 嚣张 got too many ruins until they just leave them here as obstacles for the hot air balloon guys.
Before we touched ground, we were asked to duck for cover to prevent spilling out in case the balloon senget.
A safe but thrilling descent, especially when the pilot is trying to stop such a large, moving object without any brakes.
Fun fact: Did you know that the no.1 killer of daisies are hot air balloons?
The crew opened some non-alcoholic cheapo sparkling water to celebrate killing so many flowers.
Wow tastes exactly like the same crap we bought back then when we randomly surprised our friends at their doorstep when it was NOT their birthday.
For some reason, there was a graduation ceremony for all of the passengers involved. Hmm perhaps i can add this achievement to my Linkedin profile.
Congratulations on your achievement Reagon, whoever that is.
Within an hour, we went from the highest of highs in the sky, to the lowest of lows at our hotel's breakfast buffet.
Sick of that dogshit hotel breakfast, we ventured out into town to find our own.
But first, some Turkish coffee served on a weighing scale.
Being magnanimous, we opted to give Turkish cuisine one more chance. This is manti, an interesting dish evolved from the Chinese 饺子. Mini dumplings of spiced ground meat are drenched in yoghurt and served with some leaf wrapped meat. Tastes like ravioli and was actually not bad.
Top 3 dish in Turkiye. The juiciest grilled chicken wings i’ve ever tasted. Is this the redemption arc for Turkish food?
We ended off with a classic Arab dessert, the künefe. Many layers of bee hoon-like pastry are combined with melted cheese and soaked in syrup, then finished with chopped pistachios. It was amazing albeit a little overly sweet, like following and looking after someone else’s wife in a shopping mall.
Speaking of malls, we had some time to kill before our domestic flight back to Istanbul so we chose to spend it on shopping.
Pretty impressive for a lok kok town, housing all the big brands you can think of.
Including Jh’s love affair from Switzerland.
First time seeing Arby’s, a fast food chain from the US so i was obliged to try it.
真是他妈的难吃. The meat has the texture of circumcised foreskin and the melted (dick) cheese did not help in this regard.
And with that final unimpressive meal in Pamukkale, we travelled back to our hotel to retrieve our luggage.
Nice room and comfy stay, 只是对面的房间一直有怪声音.
Reagon tried hiding his boner while dreaming about Kat on route to the airport.
Our 5th flight in 7 days. 很累.
Got a free upgrade to the emergency exit seats, probably because we are Chinese and are generally dependable when given instructions.
I shall not even give this in-flight sandwich meal a caption as it is unworthy of me using my brain cells to describe how disappointing it was.
Fast forward to Istanbul, we quickly checked into our hotel and headed out in search of dinner.
Winding alleyways of the Beyoğlu district, a happening area home to many bars and restaurants.
We decided on Italian food as we believed that it was a relatively safe option.
But the initial red flag came when hummus is served at an Italian restoran.
It's an even bigger red flag when it serves quesadillas. Is it you also got serve 月光河粉?
Plot twist: the pastas were surprisingly nice, as long as you don't eat 2 servings of it at 4am in the morning..
My exact confused expression when someone instructed me to “order and pay over there”.
Ended the day marveling at the night view of the Bosphorus Strait before we returned to our hotel.
Got to admit it looks charming especially with all of the lit up mosques. A fulfilling day jam packed with amazing sights, but our busy travel schedule and the mediocre food has made us fatigued. Just 1 more day to go and we are finally going home to superior food and my 900 thread count tencel bedsheet. Alhamdulillah.
- End of Day 7 -
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