To get there from Istanbul to Troy at 2:23 AM

 To get there from Istanbul to Troy, needed to cross the Asian part of Turkey, with a path length of over two hundred miles and pass several large and small, densely populated cities in the country. You can select a beautiful (and in some sense historic) route through Europe and cross the Dardanelles Strait on the ferry - as did Alexander the Great (see map). 
I chose the second way, not only because of associations with age, but because the route passed through the peninsula of Gallipoli, where during the First World War, the Entente forces suffered huge losses, in a vain attempt to storm the Turkish capital of Constantinople (modern name -- Istanbul). After the war, Turkish general, reflecting the attack of allied forces, won the title Ataturk ( "Father Turk") and svergnuv power of the Sultans, has led the country in the twentieth century - as Kemal Ataturk, first president and founder of the modern Turkish state. 
After tridtsatiminutnogo sailing on the ferry, a nice and crisp, we were in a small port town on the Asian shore, where, to treat caught fish in coastal waters, plunged into the bus, which is an hour brought us to Troy. 
Tour of the ruins of Troy, begins with a stroll among the defensive walls of the city, the lower and oldest part of which - like many other monuments of antiquity - have been more massive and skillfully treated, than the upper. Then the visitor passes through extensive archaeological excavations. Work is intense, and - look at the layman - chaotically. Indeed, in the literature Troy sometimes called "the most excavated antiquities." Archaeologists have revealed at least seven cultural layers, starting from about 3000 BC, and understanding of these remnants of walls and buildings (see photo 2) only helps set the plate ( "Level II", "Level Va"). And just standing on top of a hill, from where a view of the surrounding valley, you begin to enter the feeling of history.