Azak Beach Hotel Alanya

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 ...

... Badeorte mit viel Beton, Lage um Lage hastig hochgezogen** Hotel- und Apartmentblocks, die zu Ost**n noch wint**lich v**lassen od** im Vorsaisondämm** auf die Touristenströme warten, trotz ordentlichen Frühsomm**wett**s mit 23 Grad und funkelndem Me**. Gut 200 Euro kostet ein im Int**net gebucht** Mietwagen für eine Woche, hinzu kommen ca. 150 Euro für das Benzin bei uns**** Tour, ab** die Investition ist un**lässlich, will man die vielen Sehensw ...

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 ...

... no tours planned, just three days to relax. This gives us a chance to go through our photos and catch up on this blog. We also walk around the city and check it out. There are very few tourists in town and we are practically the only guests in the hotel. At an outdoor café, which atypically in a Muslim country had English bacon on the menu, we met a man and woman who are retired ex-pats: a man from England and a woman from Ireland. They have fallen in love with the place, but not ...

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 ...

Hi folks hope everyone is well we having a great time seeing some amazing stuff and mixing hardout sight seeing with some flatout relaxing GOOD TIMES!! So Sulcuk was a nice laidback town and we went to the ruins of Ephesus which were in pretty good condition compared to troy some restoration had been done but pretty tastfully so as not to ruin the historic look. After a hot morning exploring ...

... 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 ...

... were outstanding. We listened for hours. There have been more than a few times on this trip where I just need to pinch myself at my own good fortune. Here I was completely happy in a place that I couldn't have imagined in even my best of dreams, with Kelly beside me. I'm not sure that I have words in my vocabulary to describe that moment, so I won't try. The next day it was time to move on to Gorme, in Cappadocýa which is like Turkey's answer to the Grand Canyon. But that's another story.

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 ...