Magic Tulip Oludeniz

Stayed here for a Week long Holiday after our university exams, nice place good food, it was an all inclusive resort, with fresh salads and cooked breakfast every morning, dinner ranged from barbe-qued fish to roast meats. organised trips down to the beach everyday and trips to the largets market in Fethiye. Also organised trips and tours around Kayakoyu 'the Ghost Town' altogether a fun relaxing trip cheaply organised by Thomas Cook.

I arrived at the Fethiye Otagar (bus terminal) and was prepared for the touts that it is reknowned for... actually I didn't even have to get off the bus, they got on and one sat infront of me and one sat behind me... Fortunately I had my Ipod on and chose to ignore them, which sadly only made them more persistant. When I stood up, they stood up, when I moved, they moved, it was like having two three-dimensional shadows ...

... refaıre (pour Jean en tout cas!!!).

Yes, as crazy as ıt sounds we dıd paraglyde from 7,000 feet ın the mountaın. It's sımple... especıally for Jean who fears heıghts... we are attached to a bıg parachute wıth a guıde behınd us... we run on top of the mountaın untıl you hıt the ...

The stranger in the Istanbul Metro station (along with everyone else who told us this) was wrong. The first day we arrived in "beautiful, sunny" Fethiye, they had the biggest storm they had seen in years. We had plans for a boat trip, or hiking to Butterfly Valley, but with the rain, those were out of the question. So instead we went to Oludeniz, a blue lagoon that we were also told it needed to be sunny in order to ...

... on Monday, so we booked it (€55 each one way). We spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around Fethiye's fish and vegetable markets.

With an extra day in hand we got up early to see Butterfly Valley, an ex hippie community in the mountains along the coast. We took a Dolmuse to the top of the valley before getting lost and after an hour asking for directions. We hiked and we mean hiked to the bottom of that valley. Don't even ...

... have taken an hour, took 1hr 45mins. Not happy. Got to the gorge eventually (quite spectacular) where we waded through some icy water and made our way up the river. Good fun, though the loose rocks were pretty tough on bare feet. The next day we did a 6km hike with Bonnie and Clyde (the brother and sister dogs from our hotel) escorting us the whole way). Went briefly through Kayakoy (ghost town, world heritage site), over the ridge and then down towards Oludeniz ...

... had provisions in our bag. We have since made a pact to accept such invitations. As the sun was sinking behind the sea and the shepherdess rounded her herd into the safety of their pen, the cattle misbehaved and the little girls continued their giggling, I felt very lucky and quite emotional to have been shown into such beautiful, remote, natural surroundings. It was really fantastic. So was waking up. At dawn the goats and ...

... bike and get on screen. He did find it flattering that the US government actually took the time to pan his movie even though he doubts any of the congressmen even saw it. As we got back into our kayaks and headed towards the sunken city, the sky turned an ominous black. The wind started picking up and the waters began getting really choppy. We reached the sunken city and unfortunately couldn't see much, as the waves ruined any chance of getting a clear view. What we ...

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... and I still had air! We entered off the boat, in about 20 ft of water. It is so clear though, when you are descending you hardly feel like you're moving. Really there wasn't a ton of life, hardly anything compared to what I saw in Vancouver (where I did the rest of my whopping 5 dives!). But it was still so amazing to see everything so clearly, and occasionally be in the middle of a huge school of fish. There were some ...