Pirlanta Fethiye

Stayed here for a Week long Holiday after our university exams, nice place good food, it was an all inclusive resort, with fresh salads and cooked breakfast every morning, dinner ranged from barbe-qued fish to roast meats. organised trips down to the beach everyday and trips to the largets market in Fethiye. Also organised trips and tours around Kayakoyu 'the Ghost Town' altogether a fun relaxing trip cheaply organised by Thomas Cook.

... and serve it up with salad, bread and rice etc etc... We had the calamari grilled and fried and it came with garlic bread and garlic sauce (lush!!). After lunch I said good bye to Tonielle as she was heading onto Konya today and I went off on further searches for the weekly market... After a good 30min walk I found an area around a long canal at the end of the harbour under a million and one white canvas circus-like-tents ...

(Englısh follows)

Ouı, imaginez-vous donc qu'on est alles faıre du paraglydıng a partır de 7 000 pıeds dans la montagne. C'est sımple... surtout pour moı (Jean) quı aı peur des hauteurs... on nous attache a une sorte de gros parachute... on a un guıde avec nous... on cour sur le sommet de la ...

... the weather cleared up, so we went on a 12 Island boat tour. Our wooden boat had a sun deck, water slide, and diving platform. Of course, Tom's first order of buisiness was to dive off the platform, which turned into a graceful backflop instead! Our favorite stop was Aquarium bay, where we snorkeled. The water was so clear you could see 20 feet down, and there were fish all around. The last stop was red beach ...

... a bush on the beach, the only shade we could find, until at 5 our ferry taxi was to take us back to town. We had decided the walk down the cliff was enough. We can tell you the ferry taxi back was unbelievably rough, maybe it would have been easier to climb the cliff.

That night when reaching our hostel we were so exhausted we dropped down into our unexpectedly comfortable beds and were out like lights.

Tomorrow we head to Rhodes.

... Sometimes traveling is like hiking, the best thing about it is being done and remembering and looking back on what you have done...not actually doing it. That's something hard to come to grips with. Another great example was one of our fellow travelers in Egypt who spen t much of our trip very upset with the way things were going and down and out about the vvarious problems that arose. Then again, when that person got home, facebook proclaimed that "Egypt was ...

So, I stayed at Alaturka Inn before and after cruising Olympos....highly recommend it! More like a hotel then a hostel,lashed out and slept in a double room- air con, no noise ...

... Palace. It is cool, green and pleasant. See one guy who has spent the night. At the uphill exit, take an interesting narrow street of renovated timber mansions behind the Sofia. The street has private guards in boxes each end, must be an upmarket address. This brings us out at the gate into the Topkapi grounds where we were last night, with some interesting Mogul style portals and a sort of ancient "ticket box". Running out of time, so ...

Went on cruise, more castles and some swimming. Short bus ride to Fethiye yesterday and a hike through the Saklikent gorge, spectacular deep gorge, about a 2 hr walk. Today we went to the ghost town of Kayakoy and then a 6 km hike over the hills to a beach resort, relax tonight and bus to Pamukale tomorrow. Gaining weight even with all of the hiking, the food here is very rich, mostly carbs floating in olive oil.

Woke up to the sun shining and a wonderful Turkish breakfast over-looking the harbor of Fethiye, Turkey. Daniel and I arrived in Fethiye late in the evening and by chance found Duygu Pension to crash for the night. Accessing our time frame over breakfast we handed over our laundry to the wife of the owner and made our way to the harbor to do some exploring. Fethiye is a moderate size fishing town on the southern coast of Turkey with one of ...