Alara Kum Incekum

Day 53

Not much to say today. I was pretty lazy for some reason and did not leave the hotel until 11am. Someone else had borrowed the hotel bicycle so I had to get the local bus out to Anemurium ('place of the winds') to see the ancient ruins built by the Byzantines. The city was founded in the 1st century AD but hit hard by an earthquake around 580.

Since it was 110 km / 3 hour ...

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Nous avons faıt du raftıng dans la gorge de Kropulu. L'eau etaıt bleue, bleue et bleue... et pleın de poıssons. Journee agreable passee en compagnıe de nouveaux amıs de Montreal, Mıchel et Suzanne avec quı on s'en va faıre ...

... Mittelstreifen orienti**te Fahrstil d** Einheimischen, laden zur Anpassung ein. Wir fließen mit und kommen üb**all flott und sich** voran. Aspendos ist nach 40 km uns** **st** Halt auf d** Fahrt nach Alanya. Das best**haltene Amphitheat** d** Antike steht wie ein riesig** Legostein am Fuß des üb**wachsenen Burghügels. D** römische Bühnenbau ist weitestgehend **halten, auch wenn die Schmuckfassade zum Zuschau**raum nur noch zu **ahnen ist. Im Somm** kann man ...

Two nights in Silifke We stayed in the Lades Motel in Silifke which is the best place to stay for birdwatchers who want to sample the 320 species in the Goksu Delta, www.ladesmotel.com is the website. The guy who runs it, Nurullah Cinar (the "C" should be with one of those appendices hanging underneath), already for more than 30 years, is a pleasant chap, he knows his birds. Many organisations use his motel as a starting point or as a stop on birding trips. He ...

November 9, 2007 Fethiye, Turkey We are staying at the Yacht Plaza Hotel here in the Mediterranean resort town of Fethiye. It's a beautiful place with a picturesque harbor. The hotel is listed as a three star and we are given one of the best rooms on a corner of the building so we have two balconies overlooking the harbor. At the docks below the sailing yachts are tied off and covered for the winter; nearly gunnel to gunnel all down the shore line. If it were only August or even ...

... blue eyed people everywhere with as many pubs/restaurants/clubs you would ever need. You can also go on nightclub cruises here which leave the waterfront at 10pm for a 4 hour drinking session. As drinks were expensive we skipped this idea and were off the next day to a smaller and a little cheaper place called Kas (I thought it was pronounced Kaz but it is actually Cash).

Was up early this morning. Had breakfast, got on a bus, and rode for an hour from Antalya to Manavgat, to see the Manavgat Waterfalls, on the Manavgat River. (Manavgat Manavgat Manavgat...) They're not really anything huge; they're photogenic but not terribly interesting. They have, however, been developed as a tourist attraction, with a restaurant and ice cream stands and tons of little shops selling ...

... we kicked back in a local carpetshop where lunch was provided and we were treated to an insightfull carpet demonstration (never knew there was so much to it) it was a nice atmosphere full bellies free wine and what do you know we are now the proud owners of a huge turkish handmade silk carpet!(So much for our budget) Later that arvo we went to the temple of st. john and to one of the 7 ...

Hi everyone - thıs blog wıll turn out funny as we're on a Turkısh keyboard. We arrived in Istanbul 28th Aprıl to spend a few days checking out the sites before heading off on our middle east tour. We stayed in the backpacker district in Sultanahmet which is pretty geared up for kiwis and aussies. The locals probably know more maori than the kiwis. Dıd a boat tour down the ...

... on the boat but it turns out that one of them was the captain, the other was a mate of his (İ think a skipper of another boat) and the deckhand was the 3rd guy. 20min later we're still bobbing along in the harbour waiting for any other tourists to join to make it worth his while to venture out, so I make some excuse about a bus leaving at 2pm and get my cash back and bugger off. The moral of this story - Turkish Travel Law No. 2 (to go after no.1 about not ...