Keskin Dalyan

... otherwise can see it being a long winter in the middle of Siberia!!!

Olivia left Cappadocia with a vomiting and diarrhea bug, but slept in the van and perked up a bit during the trip to Ankara. Ryan was also feeling seedy and nearly asphyxiated us with some pungent emissions. The children were tired of Kebabs so negotiated their way to a McDonald’s restaurant. Olivia started to feel very unwell again at Macs so Robyn took her outside for some fresh ...

... in the morning they would let us out and kept driving around and drinking beer and trying to make us drink beer but we felt horrible because we hadn't slept in days and couldn't even keep our eyes open and the last thing we wanted was canned warm turkish beer but it was deadly cold out at the same time and raining we have no coats it was an impossible situation finally they were getting really annoying and we were getting too tired to deal they pulled ...

... joins us as the other guests file away to start their adventures for the day. Judith has been dying to ask, Faruk (who is Muslim) about the customs of the Muslims that live in the villages. In response to her questions he tells us that some, not all, of the marriages are arranged. In his case it was arranged (we don't think that he is happily married). He then goes into a long discourse about the Muslim philosophy. Mohamed was the ...

... hiking up a small hill behind the hotel my eyes are greeted with the sight of 25 huge hot air balloons, some inflated, some still filling up, some rising into the air and others still tied down. Every color of the rainbow is represented here and some that the rainbow never imagined. Some are of a solid color and others with imaginative patterns. As I watch, they head out, like a herd of bloated parrots, towards the Love ...

... like a "thing" from a scary movie... after we covered ourselfs we let the mud dry. Then when it was dry we took a shower. It was a COLD shower! Then the nice part came... I got to swim in a HOT spring. It was all very...Interesting. At dinner we had a peaceful meal and the waiter thought I was RUSSIAN! Now I am lying on my bed typing this blog. Yes, it has been a good day!

... mountain. The man starts bounding up the side and within a moment- I realize it is at the pace 4x of what I am capable of at this moment. We did make it of course, trailing behind him a ways; but nonetheless. We then stood in front of the info sign together to read. He did not speak much english, and of course we lack Turkish language skills....but he wanted so badly to be helpful and information so he read the Turkish sign- and would try to ...

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... road with everyone else and it just seemed so out of place to me to see traditional Muslim women (headscarf and all) driving tractors down the road. Egirdir is a town of 17,000 on Lake Egirdir which is the fourth largest lake in Turkey. Mt. Davraz towers over the town at 2635 meters. It is a beautiful setting which is quickly becoming known as a base for adventure travellers. Egirdir is fascinating since it is a very thin peninsula ...

... there is a massive courtyard, framed by colonnaded walkways and within this are the museum rooms that display Ataturk memorabilia, personal effects, and official automobiles. Then you get to an enormous marble cenotaph, cut from a single piece of stone and weighing 40 tons. I guess the actual tomb is in a chamber beneath it. Then there is the requisite gift shop which has Ataturk ...

... mud bath before. He resisted at first, but relented and dove in with gusto, thoroughly rolling around and not missing an inch in thick black mud. After drying and braving the showers (refreshing!) we sank into the hot springs with relief. It was a little tingly, I must say. Now, the hot springs are particularly noted for their gynaecological healing properties, and are meant to be done in the nude. Our group ...