3 'free' excursions with our SAGA cruise

there are the coaches waiting to take you on tour this is an overview of three excursions from the six included excursions on one saga cruise [Music] and do it on the sun the first excursion is in malta and having seen the island many times we decided to take the panoramic coach tour dating back to 3 600 3800 before christ now most panoramic excursions on all cruise lines means a coach trip and it normally means it's better for those with limited mobility on this particular trip there was only one photo stopped just outside of the awning you can see some of the magnets 4 100 before priced and coming to a very sudden to a very abrupt hand tower city in 2000 it was a very very easy excursion for those with limited [Music] [Music] to slow down a bit just in case you would like to take the photo of medina the second excursion we'll show you was actually a coach trip plus a museum the third one is different because it was a trip to troy and it was announced as being more difficult in fact everybody who booked it was sent a letter to explain it was a more difficult excursion we're on a panoramic tour this is the first time we've got off the coach actually to take photos behind me is some paul's island it has a statue of saint paul on it and it's meant to mark the exact spot where saint paul was shipwrecked off malta of the six free excursions we could have taken on our saga cruise we only took three the free or included excursions are often of the panoramic type you might find if you want the more adventurous excursions that they are not the included ones and you will have to pay for them this is the archaeological museum right by ephesus inside the museum there are ramps everywhere so it's quite easily negotiable for people with chairs or scooters it was a great honor for the roman sculptors to be chosen to put their statues on the side of the road in ephesus and these are some of the examples the name ephesus is possibly a romanised version of a hittite word it was a huge trading city on the coast with underground water systems piping fresh water from at least three sources these statues were in fountains in ephesus and this is androcles and his dog this one here you can't see his face unfortunately says take not this breeze was saved from a fire this is a statue of artemis from the first century this is the model of the temple of artemis it was one of the seven wonders of the world it was made of marble so let's talk about the fire of the second phase temple it's credited to a nut case called herostratus but there is another theory that the administrators of the temple wanted the new temple to be built on that sacred plot not elsewhere so they deliberately set fire to it we've just seen the model in the museum and this is the remains of the temple of artemis [Music] this is a great map of the excavation layers of troy and it looks like there are at least nine layers we've arrived at troy it's about five minutes away from the museum in the coach the important positioning of the land of troy meant that it was occupied for over three thousand years so there's troy one troy two right up to troy nine and they're all standing on top of each other no one knows what they were actually called but archaeologists have labeled them that you can imagine this was the harbour wall and the ships were there that made troy such a wealthy nation but also destroyed troy because the mud bought mosquitoes and the mosquitoes killed them with the malaria in the early excavations they basically cut a trench through the hill and they were looking for gold and stones and what they did was destroyed what was here [Music] these are the legendary walls from troy six and if helen did exist she would have existed within these walls at that time the trojans were clever they built two gates the first one was down there and the second one was around the corner so when the romans came with a battering ram they burst through the first gate but then they couldn't get to the second gate because it was around the corner so while they were flatting about they killed them the temple of athena was built on top of the palace but unfortunately that was destroyed in the earthquake it was built of marble but there is a sealing stone that they found that we can show you [Music] this odeon in troy nine was built on top of the fortification walls of troy iii and the statue that we saw of hadrian in the museum they found just here [Music] and this side of the footbridge are the remains of the roman baths so after they've been in the bars they could go across to the odeon which was for vips only [Music] just arrived at the troy museum let's take a look there's a cafe and a shop on the ground floor and very importantly nice clean restrooms the museum is divided into four levels let's go up the ramp the museum has a lift and the ramp is easy [Music] this sarcophagus is 400 bc it's important because it's the first time they've used colors in the hunting scene and it was reckoned that a 25 year old man's body was found inside although legend has it that the trojan war was about helen and love it was actually about wealth power and trade routes in 1882 trump was investigated and restored by the nature of the artifacts they find they can actually tell what people ate [Music] this level is from the roman period of troy and this is hadrian a very important roman emperor if you come all this way don't miss the great view from the roof remember the old gag how many people can you fit in the mini well how many people do you think you can fit in there this was in the film starring brad pitt and eric banner called troy just guessing but we reckon that front section dropped down and they all ran out so if you don't actually make it to troy the next best thing is to come and visit the trojan horse and this model i'm on the beautiful saga ship the spirit of adventure it's the newest and youngest ship i've been on it's only a couple of years old i'm standing on the observation deck deck 14. let's take a look around saga is an adult ship so you must be 50 or over to book a holiday it would be a really cool idea if they set matches up between the ships the discovery and the adventure perhaps that may be something for the future [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] you