Exploring the Ancient City of SIDE, TURKEY

[@tonywestbrook9876]

Something about the poetic irony of stone ruins and human ambitions. The way even stone wears away in the face of time. All the words made by people inhabiting these structures that have come and gone like the winds of time passing over ruins. The ruins seem a ghostly reminder. The moment moves onward. Time rolls forward. What stands the test of time? Onward, ever onward Gabriel!

[@Papiofficial8]

"Time rolls forward" - "Wears away the face of time" pricelessly said

[@seanmac5093]

"winds of time" is a cliche. otherwise, well said.

[@andysm1964]

what a wonderful ,and accurate statement of humanity

[@NotMadeOfManitobaFlour]

This raised my awareness so much I started levitating in the room

[@sims2128]

Who came here after Harald baldr post

[@richierich8081]

I thought he caught him pooping

[@sims2128]

@@richierich8081 where

[@belial2347]

Yes I did and I won't be back

[@sims2128]

@@belial2347 same here

[@aboorortravels]

Harald baldr never seen anyone as boaring as him I thought I was

[@AnkleSnapper72]

How freaking good is that? I can see on your face how much you are enjoying exploring it all. Turkey continues to deliver on the wonder.

[@markc7099]

Beautiful vid Gabriel, thank you for taking the time to put it out there for us 🙏👍

[@garethsandison6366]

Incredible production. Much kudos Gabriel

[@helenvwalker7919]

The theatre---Wow! What a striking building. Have been to Turkey twice. It did not disappoint, either time, especially Istanbul , Pammukale and Selçuk. Enjoyed watching this video very much.😊

[@aboorortravels]

It's really nice in Croatia also have roman ruins and I'm plovdiv Bulgaria is really beautiful

[@CityWalksLondonVlog]

My favourite part of travelling is seeing the ancient ruins, this was amazing 😉 thanks

[@aboorortravels]

I also love history i agree with you

[@soumyadeeplovestoexplore6631]

Beautiful., it seems Antalya has some major ancient sites to see the Ottoman, Greek and Roman empire past history.

[@marsupiotupak]

Last year I stayed in Side for about ten days. It is a great destination for a vacation. Manavgat waterfalls are worth visiting.

[@elcioribeiro]

Hi Gabriel, Turkey is really amazing! I like to see the old cities you've been showing us with your camera. Fantastic!

[@kora132]

You're lucky to have been in such an amazing town. Thanks for showing it to us!

[@pammyrogers]

I have spent a lot of time in Turkey over the years. I love Turkey and the people who live there💕

[@marafarnham595]

Oh my the food looks delicious Gabriel! Thank you for showing beautiful Turkey! 😊❤ take care! 🙏

[@towpathtreks]

Thanks so much for your ongoing travel videos. Here in South Yorkshire, UK under virus lock down rules I'm not allowed to travel outside my own city area to the rest of England, 20 miles up the road isn't permitted, and abroad is an absolute no-no. You're helping to keep me sane.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Sweet, glad to hear it but bummer to hear about the lockdowns, that's rough.

[@aboorortravels]

Yes it's tough for you up north not long before London follow

[@qinutusarmus_imnotdeejay5342]

The area is very interesting, I was completely amazed!👍

[@Travelwithchris]

So much history in Turkey! Unreal dude!

[@avrilyaxley2084]

So nice with you and the ruins in the sunshine we have a lot of rain lately (uk) 💖💖

[@trevorleat8906]

Not been able to get away this year and it feels like things are closing down again here in Scotland so it's been great to travel with you Gabriel, loving these Turkish videos, I can feel the warmth. Would love to dive into that emerald water again...Safe travels....

[@bmyra]

All your videos are great, but this is next level. Thanks Gabriel.

[@zeuschoi]

Keep it up, Gabe! Inspired by your work, my family and I traveled to Europe for 2months before Covid-19. And now, I'm back home, traveling to Turkey with you! Thanks 😊 🙏

[@digarcia1890]

Wow Gabe...ty for sharing such amazing history and architecture with those of us that may never experience it.

[@Amacott99]

Just incredible. The history, the setting. Magical

[@KNTshows]

This soundtrack really helped. Just imagine how humans lived here many years ago! The world continues

[@racheallange2056]

I am in Side right now...It is beautiful and the people here are friendly. The food is amazing.....Mmmmm olives is served with breakfast...love them. This is my first time in Turkey..

[@hansenzanacic809]

Thank you Gabriel for the wonderful videos I like that you are very neutral in your explanations and report as is please keep safe and continue to be our window

[@glenn8272]

I like how you always eat a local dishes throughout your travels

[@lunaalkaisi]

A very big like to you Gabriel and for this beautiful city

[@neil1672]

Just returned from Side and doing my 2 weeks quarantine. Side is my second home!

[@neil1672]

@@themissdior1235 It’s a fantastic place! Not just the weather, history or the scenery, but the people make Turkey a must visit. I was going to recommend a Turkish Barber for Gabriel. It would have made a good video

[@valeriehaskins7238]

Wow! One of the best videos! Your history lesson was great, loved the filming of the ruins, I actually have visited there but it was wonderful to see it again. Food shots looked yummy. Really enjoyed the entire video!

[@dianejaegge6347]

Enjoyed this vlog very much.

[@andi2234]

Absolutely breathtaking! To think some of history's most famous people walked these paths. Standing where you were standing. Chilling indeed.

[@59jaguar]

Food looks great! The more I see of this place the more I want to go.

[@elizabethpeters111]

Really great videos of Turkey & the coast - we are enjoying them so much. Love the ruins - food looks amazing. Thank you for the awesome tours. :)

[@kseniaaktash9242]

Thanks for the video. I was trying to search for some book to read about Side or the region in general before going there. No book, but luckily there are such great videos like yours. If I'm lucky, I'll be there next week! Yay!

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Excellent, have a great trip.

[@LV-gf3ev]

Very nice video Gabriel...nice scenes and music.

[@bubbabooboo2512]

I liked it 👍 Thanks for showing us around.

[@subotica1974]

great video , makes me go now and visit that place , thank you for exploring

[@gohardorgohome7687]

Hey Gabe these roman ruins are spectacular please do more roman ruins Keep up the good work man 👌👌👍👍

[@CMEAGAIN]

Great that your back to daily vlogging again, back to respectable WIFI speeds 👍

[@Travelwithchris]

😂😂😂 that has to be it! Lol

[@wilfredotorres6628]

Hi Gabriel, This video is amazing you really get a sense of how much history and influence the region has enjoyed over the thousands of years and continues to flourish due to that influence many cultures could take a lesson from this important fact.

[@MB-le4kk]

Still killing it gabe! Stay safe.

[@jrcrimmel]

Your videos are really good. Keep it up.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Thanks Jeff, hope you're good man.

[@Preachings565]

Hey Gabriel, very nice seeing going trough the Turkish rivera, especially Side. Me and my family have travelled over the Turkish rivera for many years and have many good memories of those vacations, especially the town of Side, to this day that is one of our favorite vacations (we went there way back in 2001).

[@whatsgoingon1239]

love the song choice enjoyed this video i will be visiting side turkey soon

[@georgechilidis8446]

Well that’s funny on Turkish coffee on the list, one a day is a must with a Greek baklava it’s a social event.. yes Crete my birth hometown , thank you Gabriel for the history lesson, I left Crete when I was 9 years old enjoy your stay

[@yrisdel8215]

Love your videos! Just wanted to mention the very fast camera turns give some of us vertigo, but great content!

[@BillKing3456]

I can’t decide, from watching your Turkey videos, whether it’s come for the ancient ruins, stay for the food (and the Mediterranean) or come for the Turkish cuisine, stay for all the history (and the interesting topography). Turkey sure checks a lot of the boxes is what I’m taking away.

[@gertjanvandermeij4265]

Nice , the only time i was on a holiday in Turkey , i also went to Side , it was about 15 years ago . Good to see it again , it bring back some memory's !

[@hurguler]

There was only a brief reference in the ruins' sign at 6:00 but let me tell you an interesting fact about the Luwian, which was an ancient Anatolian language that was a member of the Indo-European family of languages. A dialect of Luwian was the last Anatolian language to go extinct, probably around 5th Cent AD. Anatolian languages were wiped out after Alexander the Great's Hellenization period.

[@mn7486]

Which inscriptions are you referring to? The inscriptions on the ancient ruins starting at 15:21 are in Greek.

[@hurguler]

@@mn7486 The sign at 6:00 which made a reference to Luwian. Google "Anatolian languages."

[@bozhidarmadzharov7066]

Great exploring Gabriel. Really enjoyed your tour of the ancient ruins. These days you are quite active in uploading videos. Is the internet connection getting better?

[@spy967]

Nice soundtrack. I really liked the scene with the voice of the crow in the background.

[@timallison8560]

who the hell are the 11 people that could possibly thumbs down? lol great video there man! peace from tampa!

[@huacamaya119]

I had to watch this video again. I just zone out into my own little world as I lay here on bed and relax for the evening. It's like a story telling before I fall asleep. Love it!!🛌😴❤

[@christophertherealone.7938]

That must be incredible just to step foot in that history Gabe thank you for this great video

[@marcusmercado8279]

Right out the gates with that bass in the intro. Keep it up Gabe.

[@donnasmith6312]

Awe cool thanks for sharing

[@stefengreg9233]

Hope i can go there too someday...

[@megortiz7343]

Love your videos alot thank you

[@rikdeere]

Hi Gabe, this tour of Turkey is really turning out to be amazing. BTW, I just read that Malta is open to US citizens, and don't require quarantine if you are coming from Turkey. From Malta, you could then head over to Albania, which also is now open.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Excellent, good to know. I'd like to see a bit more of Malta.

[@henryreinbach]

You’re a champ

[@eleniasimop]

Very interesting video. Thank you.😊😊😘😘 The food looks great 😋

[@MrsOhrid]

Good job Gabriel 👏 👍

[@pedrozatravel]

Looks awesome

[@Papiofficial8]

HEY Gabriel, you have inspired me soooo much. i have learned from you and have taken on my own path with creating Travel videos, 😍💝💖♥️❤️. Keep motivating and inspiring us.

[@alrickcampbell214]

your so right...he is

[@Papiofficial8]

@@alrickcampbell214 my family in Jamaica loves his page

[@alrickcampbell214]

@@Papiofficial8 good looking out..take care

[@Papiofficial8]

Thank you...Gabriel

[@pasqualeabarno]

Hello.. Gabriel.. Very nice place.. Grazie mille 🍀

[@MyOldBook123]

Great job.

[@FreeSATprep]

Are you planning to go on to Sanliurfa and up to Gobekli Tepe? I hope so! I would love to see it!

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

I was there last year: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4CUmmN7r61rZ7s

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

You should really try a Turkish massage! They also do 'soft' versions for westerners who aren't used to the intensity of the real thing.

[@aboorortravels]

Good work my friend I'm on the border with Turkey

[@HeyVernTravels]

Hey Cool, that place was never on my radar thanks for that! Looks like some stones are local coral or volcanic rock? Stealth camera has good audio agreed!

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Howdy man, now I recognize your profile pic and remember exchanging some comments before. Cool to meet up and talk travel stuff. You'll be in the video but I'm way behind, so it will be at least a week before that one gets posted. It will be the one about Ephesus. Travel on!

[@HeyVernTravels]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos Travel on bro!

[@seahoney]

Since you are very close, you should do rafting in köprülü canyon. You’ll travel to source of the river and its drinkable at the starting point. Its just behind Side through mountains. Next town Alanya is also worth a visit.

[@madridvlogging8903]

A place to go..rich in history.

[@donstravelsandrants.]

Amazing

[@JustSayitforGodSake]

Thanks for the video. It’s been years since I last went to Side. I don’t know what your plain is but you’re not so far away from the city of Denizli where Pamukkale (I guess you’ve been before) and the ancient city of Laodekiea (10km before Pamukkale) are located.

[@andreimihaesi]

Loving the Turquoise coast! What temperatures idid you have there during the day? Looks like the last place in Europe/ Mediterranean where the summer still hangs on :)

[@hasantahaergul4996]

it’s about 14/30 nowadays

[@andreimihaesi]

@@hasantahaergul4996 amazing, same as here in Brisbane, Australia!

[@SmoothWheels]

this beat you got for this video is so fire lmao who produced this ?

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Cool, music is listed in the description.

[@jf8461]

Very interesting! But please slow the camera movement a bit.

[@tigrotom7312]

Nice video Gabe. You need to stop by island of Cyprus. You haven't visited Mediterranean until you've been to Cyprus, most beautiful island in the sea.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

kzbin.infosearch?query=Cyprus

[@tigrotom7312]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos I forgot you've been pretty much everywhere, my bad.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

@@tigrotom7312 No worries!

[@peterrisbergs7156]

Amazing that they permit you to climb on the ruins. Turkey must not have lawyers or at least very draconian liability laws. In the USA that would be a lawsuit waiting to happen.

[@SavranS007]

People should already know how to behave around ancient sites without any lawyer telling them what not to do but on the contrary they even write their names on the ruins unfortunately. Everytime I see those names I wish they become incompetent so we don't have to deal with the problematic children those attention seeking morons would probably fail to raise.

[@Oo-IIII-oO]

If you get hurt it's YOUR fault. You don't find someone else to blame.

[@peterrisbergs7156]

@@Oo-IIII-oO I agree. However in the USA there is an over supply of lawyers who charge 40% of whatever they can extort out of those they say are guilty that a careless person, one looking at his phone or drunk should have no responsibility for his own reckless actions. Gabriel seems very fit and agile but it is easy to see someone else falling or tripping over the ruins.

[@bobank-hs8ml]

I hope you managed to get to see the museum in the city just under the gates into the city accross from the amphitheatre, also hope you managed to see under the glass on the street aswel with the ancient city under neath. a truely beautiful city and people one of my favourite places on earth, the history, the culture, the warmth of the people is rare to find these days

[@worldcitizeng6507]

I prefer ancient sites more than Disney, I refused to go to any Disney. Imagine ancient sites like this walked by Alexander The Great, Cleopatra & Mark Anthony, where tourist only have to pay $6 to enter! My next Turkey adventure after the pandemic will begin from Antalya and east before I joint another Gulet/yacht cruise. I love the all the islands & colors of the Mediterranean! It was so lovely to see free roaming peacocks on the mountains of Rhodes last summer.

[@IEROFANDIS]

At 15:20 writes ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥC ΙΠΠΙΚΟΥ ΠΡΟΒΟΥΛΟΥ ΑΓΩΝΟΘΕΤΟΥ ΤΩΝ (DIOGENUS OF CAVALRY PROVULOS AGONOTHETOS OF)

[@AMKPAi吗1902]

Thank you.

[@callieanastasiaart]

Thank you for acknowledging Greek history in Turkey, they may have taken a lot from us Greeks but at least history can’t be rewritten. Some hate us but they don’t realize they are part of us. 💔 keep it up gabe!

[@BombasticGA]

@oguz b. Yeah right... Just look the recent example of Hagia Sophia and all other churches in Turkey that were destroyed. But for ancient Greek sites as it seems is good money used for tourism.

[@anatolienreisen]

Because of its complexity, people in Anatolia were known as Ioniens and other tribes. They were called so by the hellenis, who were actually living in Ancient Greece. But the creator of epics such as homer, odyssey or ilias, these were actually the Ioniens who lived in anatolia. So the potential of creativity is both, hellenistic and Anatolian, but more likely Anatolian. Look at historical documents.

[@ggoddkkiller1342]

@@BombasticGA There are literally hundreds of Churches in Turkey which are in good condition and open for visitors while there are how many Mosques in good condition in Greece???...

[@nikoladodevski3860]

Thay have taken from you??? ... Lol. All the history you have today is Macedonian history and the rest of it is made up...

[@mn7486]

@@anatolienreisen Actually Ionians were Greek. Even today you Turks call Greeks Ionian. Yunan is a paraphrase of Ionian. Also one of the most important ancient Greek architecture style is the Ionian style (the Ionian rhythm).

[@otpmetairie4862]

Good video.

[@tihomirhuin5940]

Hy Gabe hello from Zagreb Croatia i love ur content keep up the good work and one question. Where do u go after Turkey back to usa or?

[@gaiatravels3489]

Love Zagreb and Croatia! Beautiful country ❤

[@tonpap]

The eastern Roman empire (Byzantine) was a Greek speaking area and Christian worshipping area, that is a continuation of the Alexander the Great kingdom, which was a continuation of the Ancient Greek world. Amazing video! Amazing places!

[@drmikebeck]

Wonderful videos of Mediterranean Turkey. I miss my favorite foreign country. I didn't see the Mediterranean on my visits so you are filling in the gaps in my experience. Thanks. A Turkish Texas

[@donnasmith6312]

Over here from Harolds channel 🥰

[@stevo728822]

Cool, Wiki says Side was once the home base of the Cicilian Pirates until defeated by Pompey, hence the connection with tourist pirate ships. 09:03 I think the "grand promenade" is the circus for chariot racing. Despite what modern movies show, chariot racing was far more popular in the Roman Empire than gladiatorial combat. Lot of money changing hands on betting on horses, just like today. 09:18 I often wonder if the decorative stone curls added to columns were actually a man made copy of ammonites they would have found in the limestone. 09:40 And the wall carvings show acorns from Oak trees that today don't grow that far south. Maybe it was wetter then. I think a wreath of oak leaves was given to the winner of the chariot race. Everything once again indicates earthquake damage, probably with reconstruction of the columns using the original stonework. 10:28 You can see how the earthquakes warped the street paving. The arches survived the earthquakes really well.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Great info.

[@stevo728822]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos You're keeping us all sane Gabe as we head back into a Winter lockdown.

[@cardorazoda7934]

Nice one gab.

[@akashhajano]

Wow What A Place and You Good To Describe Love This Brother . Iam Also A Travelvlogger Iam from pakistan . Last night i saw your videos i really so much enjoy great work brother . Love From Pakistan❤️❤️

[@tad27612]

What we call the Byzantine Empire was known by them at that time as the Greek Empire, so you are not wrong to refer to it as such.

[@papo1papo116]

Never was Greek empire was Byzantin e empire.... meaning Roman Latin empire

[@mn7486]

@@papo1papo116 Yes, it was called the Byzantine Empire and the people were Greek and spoke Greek.

[@minafernandez549]

I remember when you were in Jordan. In a desert you rode a camel.

[@openup007]

How's the internet service... improved?

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Yes, it was only crazy slow in Kas, everywhere else it's been manageable.

[@saratemp790]

Amazing ruins.

[@ВладимирШангин-к9ф]

I was there a week ago!!!

[@s.c.9878]

You have probably mentioned this , but what is the situation in Turkey about wearing masks especially outside in the fresh air?

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Depends where you are. When I was in Marmaris the police were enforcing that people wear masks outside, but that's the only place I've seen that so far.

[@duffysullivan2794]

Dang, late October and everyone is walking around dressed like it is mid July!

[@papo1papo116]

Gabriel I’ve watched you videos and you are Pro Greek for some reason!!!!

[@alibaaroun8539]

Like many of us who learned some history....