Dalyan Berg Hotel

Getting to Koycegiz was a bit of a logistical nightmare, (I think from Selcuk - it was three buses!!) but I got there in the end. I stayed in a guesthouse that was recommended to me from the guys I stayed with in Selcuk and it paled in comparision - but possibly because I was only one of two people staying there. The owner was a slightly strange man and he had an 'assistant' who can only be ...

I was really overdue my holidays, finally getting to take it in October and I just signed up to two weeks of not doing much in Turkey with a couple of friends in a group. For me though not doing much isn't my cup of tea so I took every chance to re-live my old Turkey memories, from food, sights, sea, dancing and ahem, yes the men, again :)

Please come back soon as I update all the stories from the two weeks. Thanks.

... 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 ...

... it is raging, and it does not allow a moment of breath to look into this information. Kind of a “It’s my party and I cry if I want to” state of mind.


Equanimity, derailed.
When I was teaching Yoga in Cirali, being celibate, peaceful and happy, life threw me a curveball and said: “You think you are happy? Okay, let’s see if you can handle THIS?”
It was an Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic” kind of a ...

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 ...

... and I got scraped all over. Jess and Phoenix made it up onto the rocks but were scared to go any higher...they jumped from about a meter up. Kristen was finally convinced to jump in...It took her about 15 minutes to figure out how to navigate the rocks, and then she finally jumped from the same low spot as Phoenix and Jess. There was also a place just abit higher, but not high by any means, that I launched off a few times to the right of the waterfall. It was fun ...

We're walking the Lycian Way. Starting tomorrow. Taken a long time to get here but I know it's gonna be worth it.

Gonna be beautiful.

Staying at a really nice hotel.

There's a few pics of where we're staying near.

Looking forward to getting completely destroyed by the hotness and longness of the walk. :)

hı all not sure where left off but we have been quıte actıve but not around ınternet. currently ın above town for boat reprovısıonıng. have been hıkıng, swımmıng, learnıng more about early euro-asıa cıvılızatıons, archıtecture, and hıstory. guıde ıs a fantastıc resource as he partıcıpated ın many of theexcavatıons, especıally at epheses. toured dalyan delta, rıver, and vısıted the mud bathes ...

... a lovely waterfront promenade and some interesting shops. I was very pleased to read that development is tightly controlled to preserve its natural beauty and I think this is a lesson for some of the other areas that have been way overdeveloped. Unfortunately Gocek did not have a shop with the quick fix of a Kebab that we all craved, so we made-do with a pastry instead. If you are passing this way, I'd recommend a stop at Gocek. Dalyan is just another 30 ...

... roads for a while and arrive at the Saklilent Gorge, where a river has carved its way down through the rock to create a very deep, very narrow gorge - so narrow no sun ever reaches into the gorge and the water is permanently cold even in the heat of summer. Its another stop off for many tour buses and the restaurants and souvenir stands abound! However, we pay our money and start walking in via a suspended board walk over the rushing river below. After around 100 meters, the ...