good morning everyone from rhodes greece we're going to go on a driving tour of roads today hey
thank you a lot of buses out here waiting to get folks and uh take them to the various excursions
our city has been around for the past 2 400 years it was founded in 411 bc and if you keep looking
on your left you will see ruins of that cities of the temple of our fraternity of venus atlantic
right here on your left each of these buildings carries details of a different aquatonical rhythm
so this one on your left hand side which is the new market has more arabesque details
since they also had some colonies in africa the second one which is the bank still is a bank
has this special elaborate windows which shows you that it was a quite important uh building followed
by a dome on your right hand side and a bar on your left hand side for the elite troops of italy
so before we tour roads we've actually driven 35 miles from the old city to the ancient camaros
and we're going to explore some of the archaeological dig here
from the city which dates back all the way back to 1400 bc
it's actually very warm here today and uh in roads and in camaros where we just arrived
you can see behind me here the ocean and as we're coming along the coast driving down here
we are south of the town of rhodes where we docked we're actually in the center portion of the rhodes
island uh but back here the ocean you can see just across it you can't see it on the video but if you
were to be down by the water you could actually see i think it's under 10 miles or so the coast of
turkey and some of the mountains of turkey so the island of rhodes is uh the farthest creek island
to the east right up next to turkey so pretty cool there's a lot of history here we saw a lot of
cool architecture and buildings as we were riding through the town and we'll see a lot more of that
once we visit here i think we have an hour to visit here and see some of these
ruins in the archaeological site and then we're going to head back to the old town of rhodes the
medieval town of rhodes and we're going to do a walking tour there so a lot to show you today here
the beautiful island of rhodes greece there you can see what i was talking about you can
see they're about the center of the screen let me zoom in just a little bit more you can see those
mountains that's actually the country of turkey which is just off to our west northwest from where
we are right now so pretty cool to be so close to turkey i have been to turkey before dakusadasi
which isn't so far from here but beautiful country and it's cool to see it from rhodes today
gradually we have a city which forms the format the formation of it follows the formation of
the circle so in the highest location which is up there we have the temple dedicated to
the gods in case of uh of the people of communist was always the goddess athena
immediately after the sacred zone of the temple we have what the community needs to survive
and that's water supplies workshops and the reach so the rich families is the second circle with the
warehouses the storage area and finally we have as the outer circle the houses of the people these
are the houses that we have constantly in uh on the community of uh of camiros in the first city
well until the fourth century bc that's when we have the earthquake probably the same earthquake
that destroyed the colossus of roads this area was all the agora or the market so this would have
been uh sort of the center of the town and then the guide was telling us that this here would have
been the fire pit so this would have been where they made their fire which was very important to
the early societies the ancient greeks as was water and they had water systems which originated
on the hill and then water would come down into the various portions of the city
and the town square uh one more thing to show you real quick before the group leaves me um
here is where they would tie up animals that they would auction uh here in the town square so you
see there they would tie the animal up there then it would be marketed off here in the town square
and folks would come here to buy goods to sell goods
uh so a lot of commerce and activity went on in this spot here this structure here would have been
one of the authors here this was the sanctuary of the gods so this is where the ancient greeks
would have came the folks that lived here in cameros to make their sacrifices to the
gods you can see the altar there in the middle they could actually put a lot of small animals
sometimes even 100 small animals on that altar and you see sort of like the drain there in the middle
which is where the blood would flow and then a bigger altar over here would be where they would
put cattle and larger animals and then there's a couple of other smaller authors here as well
this is actually ancient clay pipe this was would have been part of the pipeline system
that they created in order to have water all throughout the city here
made it all the way to the top yeah it's a lot of work to come all the way up that hill
if you've been on a cruise ship for a couple days you know our good food you can see behind me here
this is a lot of the town that we just saw we were at the very bottom of the hill at the market
and then all the way up the hill to this pinnacle and you can see back here is where they would have
came and worshiped the gods so all the way back down there was where we were we came up the hill
you can also see behind me is the ocean back there and across you can see even better from
here turkey and then let me pan around here and you can see back here even more of the island
of roads you can see the mountains over there but a lot of this area even outside of the
archaeological area where we're visiting right now was actually occupied by kamaros and
the folks who lived here so a lot more of this area that we see here they could probably dig and
find even more of this society that we see here that they have been excavating for many many years
here's some of that clay pipe work that we saw from down below
you can actually see it here uh it looks like some of it here still in the rocks and then over here
we have a huge pool uh someone's mountaintop pool here
they said that this was 12 feet deep and there's actually stairs on both sides that
go down into the water the stairs i think are over here on the other side there's the stairs
that they could actually take to get into the water it actually looks like there were two sides
to this particular pool but high up here over the the city to town would have been this pool
both appeared with his idea of the crusades
they have to face at two very proton powers and religious
heading to jerusalem andreas driver is needs another 10 minutes to bring us into the city
we will arrive and we will enter from the highest part of the city from a gate quantum blocks
so we're entering the old city of the knights the walled city here is
four times larger than the vatican city in rome city dates back a couple centuries bc
so
the palace here is where they believe the colossus of roads
might have been located because of some inscriptions that were left in places here
so
now walking down the street of the night back toward the port of roads but it's
all cobblestone streets so very wear good walking shoes if you are coming to roads
going to walk the old town because a lot of the streets are like this
so
we've reached the first of i think a few city squares that they have here in rhodes and you
can see it's a lot of restaurants it's uh just now 1 45 so a lot of folks are having
lunch maybe a late lunch the beautiful day here there's a light breeze blowing the last time
i was in rhodes i think it was 105 110 degrees fahrenheit but not today it's probably in the 70s
so now we've made it back to the port area after a great day in roads we saw a lot of
history a lot of old very old buildings and forts and walled cities and ruins so that was all great
but now we're going to get back on the apex and it's just about two o'clock now in the afternoon
it's gonna get back on and enjoy the afternoon on the ship uh still dealing with a little bit
of jet lag so my body wants to like lay down and take a nap right now that's not gonna happen
i'm gonna enjoy the ship but it's been a great time here in rhodes today
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