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Fantastic online booking for greek island hopping
My husband and I recently booked our 2013 summer holiday in the Aegean. We wanted something a little different from the usual package holiday resort vacation, and instead opted for a sailing trip around the Greek islands. We found a highly recommended agency online, Yachtsngulets, and visited their website to check out their deals. The opportunity to combine Greek Dodecanese and Cyclades Island ...
Relaxing on the beach
... going to have to try and stick to southern lands for the rest of my trip.
Marmaris is a beautiful place, there are mountains on either side, the beautiful sandy beach and the most gorgeous blue ocean I’ve ever seen. Apparently lots of boaters spend the winters here and there are tons of people sailing and diving year round. It’s so fabulous I’m not sure I ever want to
leave.
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Oops... Major Mugla Mistake!
... s address, he looked back at us in shock, and mimed that it would take 3 hours (and over a hundred dollars) to get there. Sh*t!
We were able to find a bus company that had a bus leaving in the next hour (7:30) to Fethiye, so we bought tickets. We laughed at our foolishness and ate Burger King, one of the few options available to us in the bus station. (Shaan really loved Mugla by the way. It reminded him as a smaller version of Islamabad -- Pakistan's ...
A day at the Beach
... to the boat where they supplied "lunch", not very nice. Then we traveled towards the sea to Kaunos at Ekincik where ancient city was founded sometime in the Archaing period about 150BC. The cliff face has craved Tombs cut into the solid rocks. A more romantic and beautiful location for this jewel of a city can hardly be imagined jutting out from the nearby wooded hills into the marsh lands. Then we went into the fish farms through a gate in the channel and along the ...
Visit to Marmaris Castle
... went back at 1.30 (we were all worried Stuart might get locked up) Stuart talked to the ticket man who in turn went and got the lady archeologist to have a look at it. She took Stuart into a room and put her probe over it and discovered it was about 1000 years old and they were very pleased to keep it, she was particularly pleased that we could give her the exact latitude and longitude of the position where we found it. Our reward was ...