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Kayakoy Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kayakoy, Turkey
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Fethiye 4: To St. Nicholas Island
... , and residing a the North Pole), was actually St. Nicholas, born, lived and died in very hot an humid climate of southern Turkey. There is a strong likelihood (in the article) that he served at the island, and was initially buried atop that hill on the ...
Just sit back and relax
Today was the first day in a long time that I felt completely relaxed. The blue water so cool when I jumped in and so relaxing to just sit and lie with my guitar on the big couches. I spent a good hour just sitting there strumming my guitar feeling so ...
Kayakoy
Day 12 of Trip: 1. Depart Butterfly Valley 2. Brief Doctor Visit 3. Kaya Art Village 4. Karakoy Ghost ...
Walk along the Lycian Way to Butterfly Valley
... ;- what a hard life! En route to the gulet (wooden yacht) we were given a guided tour of a ghost town called Kayakoy. It was formerly a Greek community, but as part of a population exchange agreement between Turkey and Greece in 1923, ...
Fethiye 3: An Exploratory Hike
... the hillside dealing in crafts and trades. A Greek presence in this region goes back for centuries. Since then, the village of Kayakoy, as it is called in Turkish, or Karmylassos, as it was called in Greek, which had been continually inhabited since ...
Still at KayaKoy
... left Turkey and only 500,000 Muslims came to replace them - which meant that there were many places in Turkey that were effectively left abandoned - Kayakoy (or Levissi as it was known then) being one of them. Over the following 70 odd years the ...
More Ruins and More Travelling
... was very beautiful. And the early start meant that we were back in the car travelling north-west by lunch time. Today we are headed to Kayakoy, with a few stop offs on the way. We stop for a short look at Kas and then on a long high coastal drive to ...
Mediterranean Paradise
... has potential, including a nice park and some neat little modern structures standing empty. (We saw innumerable buildings in Turkey abandoned mid-construction, including dozens of high-rises). Otherwise, our opinion is to give it a ...
Lycian way treck
... is part of the Lycian Way - a mountain track which links the Lycian cities together. This part of the track goes from Kayakoy, through the ghost village of Levissi and on to Olundeniz. My foot has been ok and although it still hurts a bit I ...
Ghost village
Today, after yet another bus ride, we arrived in Kayakoy which is a little villlage outside of Fethiye in southern Turkey. On the way we passed some interesting countryside, some of it with snow caped mountains - real snow this time. Kayakoy is ...
Fish In The Water
... in the late afternoon, so we packed up our things and once back in Fethiye made for the bus station to journey on further into Turkey. Daniel and I had an overnight bus to the region of Cappadocia. It was going to be a grueling 15-hour bus ride, but ...
Fly as a bird!
... had been already 30 minutes late –which seemed to be a common conduct among all tours, buses or dolmus (mini-bus) in Turkey, the thing that you get used to after a while and start incorporating within your time planning. My pick-up ride had finally ...
Floating in the Blue Lagoon
... the extremely narrow gorge. It was a fun experience anyway. ----- Next day, we went to check out the ghost village above Kayakoy. We walked about 8km to Oludeniz, which is also known as the Blue Lagoon. A stunning beach surrounded by mountains! And ...
Ghost Town
... from one country to another. In the process, many people simply left their homes for new homes in the opposite country (Greece or Turkey, depending on what your religion was) or overseas. Kaya is a town of over 500 buildings, all deserted and most ruins ...
Healthy, and Helping, Hands
Many times there are expressions in other languages that are summed up in one or two words, where in English we flounder with sentences and metaphors and get lost trying to express the same idea. I found a very beautiful example of this a few weeks ago ...
All is quiet and then....
We left Pumukkale after a one night stay for Kayakoy, via for Fethiye. Our group stayed in Macri Pensyione, set on a farm property with chooks, sheep and cats roaming around. We took an orientation walk through the town which is small and reminded me of ...
Day 2b - Found hotel & motorbike - visit kayakoy
Transfer dropped me off right outside the door, it looked shut but there was sign outside saying to call the night porter, i did and he came rushing out and took me to me room. anna aparthotel http://www.anna-aparthotel.com/hotel.htm 3hrs sleep and i was ...
Sunset to die for :)
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