Antik Apart Datca

... as Manuel from faulty towers - only he got everything right, he did all the cooking (he was a bloody good cook!!)...<br>Koycegiz is a small village/town set on a lake - on the west coast of Turkey, inland from the Aegean Sea, famed for it's bird-watching and thermal baths.<br>I took a day-long boat tour the next morning (I unusually woke early, but that was more of a direct result of the ...

... present things to make the "standard tourist's" life easier. Menus are filled with the staple "tourist" foods (pizza, pasta, hamburgers and English Breakfasts), usually with bad pictures. All the bars gain a feel that could be lifted from a bad parody of Las Vegas, whilst drink prices drop to a level that ensures the drunken patrons destroy anything that would have added to the ambience of the town. Touts start to line every corner to hawk an ...

Awoke near Pamukkale and paid a scandalous amount to get in. 10 pounds each to see some tepid pools of water. Even the initially striking karstic rock was pretty much covered in faint brown footprints. The extorsion didn't end there as it turned out that Cleopatra's Baths, the hot spring at the top was an additional cost. We thought we could get away with just paying for one of us to get in and then swapping the ...

... sounded like an amazing trip... They were also all in their late 60s... The "under 26 and student specialists" strike again! It's not that I mind older travelers. It really isn't that at all. But to be perfectly honest, I'd rather be meeting people closer to my own age, they are generally easier to get along and become friends with, and if I'm traveling with people significantly older than me, they might as well be my parents, who after 3 months I really miss quite ...

... this in the same small coach. EVERYTHING we saw belonged to Greeks going back to the times of Alexander the Great. A very nice archeological theatre we saw was built in the year of 500 BC.<br><br>By the time the tour is over we have become friends with our tour guide whose name is Zinet. She comes from Kos but she is half Turk and half Greek, with a Greek nationality. <br><br>We ask her to recommend a nice place to eat something originally Turkish ...

... There's plenty of it, actually. Well, it's not just the tumbled down stones. It is the human labor. As I go on to site after site, it is the accumulation of wonder at the monumental labors of so many. So many of these stones are so large and heavy. And it took organization and unimagined labor quarry them; transport them; to carve them and put them in place! The logistics and time of it all.<br><br>It's the thought and speculation of the ...

... line above Kas.<br><br>The initial scenery was quite fine, looking back down to the sea and goat herds in the valley. But the landscape was brutal. I was climbing and walking in weathered limestone and thorn bushes. Cross country, no trail.<br><br>This exposed weathered limestone is a wicked substance. You dare not fall or trip. To do so would be to puncture or tear your flesh to shreds. In fact, I had the notion that the myth of Marsayas had arisen from the fact of someone falling ...

... do not want to repeat but at least I can say I did it), cruised the Dalyan river and we managed to see 2 loggerhead turtles and a possible third (I saw a head come up to breath but I couldn't defýnýtively ID it). This was apparently quite rare as Furkan said only 2 turtles were seen throughout all of the tours he ran last year (Cynthia says it was because she prayed really hard!). I managed to capture a picture of the turtle but ...

... providing light nursing duties.<br><br>However, by and by my time in Ankara became crowded by my need to exit the country as my visa was about to expire. So, with the weekend of May 16-17 approaching, when family would be free to take more of the responsibilities for G.'s care, I had to head for Kas, on the southwestern--Lycian--coast. Not only was Kas the nearest and most convenient location to get to a Greek island, but it is also located in the ...

One thing you have to give the Turks is an´A´ for effort on helpfulness. Throughout our trip here we were time and time again impressed by their helpful and hospitable nature. A good case in point was exemplified by two endearing strangers. Stranger Number One, the bus assistant (busses have one or two bus attendants who help with luggage, seat assignment, tea/water/pepsi serving etc.), and Stranger Number Two, a fellow passenger. Both were ...