Club Paradiso Resort Side

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 ...

... 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 ...

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... gay the place is during the summer, but there is a melancholy about them, and the town, now that the beautiful people are gone. But they will be well positioned when the new people start arriving in April or May. November 12, 2007 Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey We travel inland into central of Anatolia to get to Cappadocia. We travel by bus from Fethiye to Goreme where we are picked by a van from our hotel in Urgup, arriving in the dark of the morning. Our trip to Cappadocia is a ...

... re not here on our two week summer vacation. Having gone so long without interacting with many western travellers, it feels strange to be suddenly surrounded by them. The Olympos Beach is a twenty minute walk from the main road, through the now indiscernible Roman ruins alongside a cool-water river. And it is worth all the hype. The beach curls around the coast, beautifully warm and calm water gently jiggles the few tourist boats that drop anchor 100 metres out ...

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... for an overnight ride to Istanbul and I didn't have to leave anytime soon for Köycegiz so we decided on a beach day. We had to wait around most the morning for Atilla's to shuttle us into town so we wasted time playing pool and just hanging out. Got the bus from town to Pamucak beach. It wasn't very crowded but that may have had to due with the wind. Renato felt he was coming down with a cold and didn't like the wind so went back after just being there a short ...