Hotel Nazar Garden Fethiye

... Kings tombs carved into the cliff face walls before reaching turtle beach... Unfortunately we were too late in the season to see the females come up and lay their eggs or the hatchlings - but the beach was beautiful, clean white sand and ************e on it.. On the way back to the boat, I joined the tour group as we scouted around the pier looking for turtles that had been spotted earlier ...

I hate coming to places that have been ruined by tourism. Marmaris in Turkey is one such place. I have absolutely loved Turkey - fantastic people, interesting cities and some of the most beautiful places I have ever been. The sole exception was Marmaris, which whilst not a bad experience can be used to explain the negative things that happen when an area goes too far into the tourist market place.<br><br>So is a touristy area a bad thing? Not ...

... apart from alcohol, package hotels, tourists and slight depression we got out of there quick smart, and headed for Fethiye.<br><br>We arrived in Fethiye just in time for the post office to take their hour lunch. Conveniently enough there was a passport photo shop just across the road, weren't they just lovely people, photo shopping any blemishes away. Loving Turkey more and more each day. We had also found an ATM that not only promised money, but ...

... around. I got to go in first while Chris and Damien watched, but the guard was too alert for any subterfuge. It wasn't really a problem, as the baths were also a giant waste of money. I barely noticed the warm water, so busy was I dodging swirls of green goo and flaccid pink Germans. We wandered around the ancient ruins and in the early afternoon made our way to the Marmaris peninsula on the south coast.

... go to Selcuk at 8:00, getting there at 8:30, at which point Ali would get the bus fixed. We could walk around the cute little town for an hour and then pick up our other hop/on hop offers, there would be 5 of them, and we wouldn't be the only ones on the 25 person bus. I was at the time quite dissappointed with the few number of hop on/hop offers, as we had chosen to do the Fez tour in large part to meet people.<br><br>I was not in a great modd again rolling out ...

... of all those who went to create these relics. It is the thought about their dedication to beliefs. So much done in dedication to gods that we no longer acknowledge. Yet their acts were inspired by the same type of illogical beliefs that motivates religious believers of today. I find it absurd that people can believe they have a personal communication with the organizing principle of the universe. (But even for me, in certain acts of creation I ...

... onto the veranda or pool area if they are located on the ground floor. If the master bedroom is on the first floor it will usually have the best view from its windows. In some there will be a balcony leading off the master bedroom. In warmer climates the bedrooms in the holiday villas to rent will have air conditioning or fans to keep them cool. In larger properties there will sometimes be another larger bedroom suite with its own ...

... an amazing place. The beach was in between these 2 rocky mountains. When the boat stopped, I jumped into the water and swam to the shore to check it out. It was funny as there were probably 3 other boats like ours in the water and no one else was getting into the water. I noticed some people from the other boats looking at me as if they were thinking "Why didnt I think of that?". And slowly others jumped into the water as well. From a distance, all you could see where ...

... with chocolate in the middle. The place was called Olu Deniz. After our lunch we walked down the colorful beach. What made it colorful was the great light-blue water. It was also memory lane for my Dad, who had been in the exact spot 18 years ago. After washing our sand-covered feet, we drove on about 30 minutes into Fethiye. It took another half and hour to find a hotel. It was set along ...

... formerly called Levissi...a collection of brilliantly sited stone houses that comprised a formerly bustling multi-cultural village. The village was abandoned after WWÝ and the Turkish War of Ýdependence when the Greeks were forced to leave and subsequently founded Nea Levissi just outside of Athens. The remaining Turks were not able to sustain the village and and had to abandon it. Some also say that they left because they thought that it was haunted ...