Ananas Alanya

... to Alanya, I opted to take the coach this time instead of hitch hiking. I got into the station at 6:30 and then took a city bus to get closer to the beach. I think I was pretty much in the wrong neighbourhood for cheap hotels but was able to negotiate a room down from 50 to 30 TL. The apartment had a living room, kitchen, dining area and bedroom!

Now for a walk-about town for the evening...

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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 ...

... nicht als Teil ein** Busladung **leben, hingekarrt und eingebunden. Die Üb**gabe des Autos am Flughafen klappt problemlos und schon befinden wir uns auf d** breiten, zur Ost**zeit wenig befahrenen vi**- bis sechsspurigen Küstenstrasse. Auf den 120 km in d** Küstenebene zwischen Antalya und Alanya hält sich kaum ein** an die offizielle Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung von 90 kmh. Die durchweg sehr guten Straßenv**hältnisse und d** dynamische, nicht an den ...

... good English and his motel offers free Wifi, a nice reading table full of trip reports and (mostly American) birding monthlies. We went into the delta, using one of the motel leaflets as a guide and visited a number of hides and lookouts. The weather was fine, little wind and a bit of sun. We saw the Grey headed Purple Gallinule (a subspecies of the one we saw in Kenya, Egypt and Spain), Greater Sandplover, Marbled Teal, Spanish Sparrow, Lesser Spotted ...

... it would be the perfect place to spend the next three days. As it is it is chilly and overcast most of the time. The way our tour is set up we don't stay with the same group the whole time. We have bus tickets from point to point. Someone picks us up at the bus station and takes us to our hotel then a van picks us up and takes us on a tour. Then they take us back to our hotel and in the morning a van takes us to the bus station and we start over. But here, in Fethiye, we ...

After all the rock formations we had seen it was time to head back to the coast for some sea and sand. So it was off to a place on the water called Kizkalesi. Firstly we headed along the beach and found an absolute bargain place right on the beach with a perfect view of Maiden's Castle out in the middle of the water. We spent 2 nights here sunbaking, drinking, eating and ...

... where we stayed in the a very cool camping ground called the suger beach club. Next morning was a ruins free day and we took a cruise round the coast in a small cruise boat stopping along the way to swim eat drink very relaxing and hot. Next day we had a short drive to saklikent which had an amazing gorge. We stayed at the mouth of the gorge in tree houses or just lay on raised platforms in ...

... Obvıously not much left but pretty cool seeıng ıt was 2500BC. From Troy we headed further down the coast and pulled ınto some forestry where we bush camped for the nıght. Today was a road trıp to Salcuk - we2re havıng dınner wıth a carpet shop owner and hıs wıfe whıch should be pretty cool. We're stayıng ı ...

... In the summertime the place is just crawling with gap year backpackers and therefore the town must take on the air of a Roman Orgy. Alas, it was a more quiet Olympus that we rolled into. The town basicly shuts down in November, so we caught the tail end of the season. I don't know that I'd want it any other way though. We ended up staying at the Saban Pension in a bungalow with a bathroom and shower. The room and two outstanding meals ran us 50 Turkish Lira a day. This is roughly 33 ...

Who would have ever thought that a re-make of the tree house that the Swýss Famýly Robinson lived in would exsist...well it does and we stayed in one of them last night. A whole heap of small tree houses linked into one another with stair cases here and there and a river running along the side. We have ended up in Olympos and explored the ruins of the ancient city and climbed the mountain to see the Chirmara-the place where the Olympic flame first ...