This place is called Bergama, Turkey. The road to Bergama Twenty Kilometers southeast of the Turkish port city of Ayvalik. The best way to get to Bergama is by bus from Ayvalik. The bus ride takes about an hour and a half, and you ride through miles of villages and olive fields. Our particular bus ride was highlighted by a police stop that tests bus drivers for intoxication.
Accidents caused by drunken bus drivers are all too common in Turkey.
Police are taking the necessary precautions. Let the bidding begin Upon arrival into the Bergama bus station, you are greeted by a cast of pension owners and workers hawking the benefits of their particular dwellings. As we scarfed down a particularly tasty lamb stew served over rice, a persistent pension owner, armed with a three-ring notebook full of reviews from sources like the Lonely Planet made his case. We decided to take a chance and spend the night in Bergama. The pension owner drove us to the 300 year old restored Ottoman style Pension Athena.