My Aytap Hotel Alanya

... to Alanya, I opted to take the coach this time instead of hitch hiking. I got into the station at 6:30 and then took a city bus to get closer to the beach. I think I was pretty much in the wrong neighbourhood for cheap hotels but was able to negotiate a room down from 50 to 30 TL. The apartment had a living room, kitchen, dining area and bedroom!

Now for a walk-about town for the evening...

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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 ...

Two nights in Silifke We stayed in the Lades Motel in Silifke which is the best place to stay for birdwatchers who want to sample the 320 species in the Goksu Delta, www.ladesmotel.com is the website. The guy who runs it, Nurullah Cinar (the "C" should be with one of those appendices hanging underneath), already for more than 30 years, is a pleasant chap, he knows his birds. Many organisations use his motel as a starting point or as a stop on birding trips. He ...

November 9, 2007 Fethiye, Turkey We are staying at the Yacht Plaza Hotel here in the Mediterranean resort town of Fethiye. It's a beautiful place with a picturesque harbor. The hotel is listed as a three star and we are given one of the best rooms on a corner of the building so we have two balconies overlooking the harbor. At the docks below the sailing yachts are tied off and covered for the winter; nearly gunnel to gunnel all down the shore line. If it were only August or even ...

... Damo felt energetic and even swam out to the castle while I lay like a lazy whale on the beach! From Kizkalesi we headed along the coast road towards Alanya. Unfortunately the coastal road was slow as it wound it and out so we made a decision to head inland. Not the best decision ever made on our part. It took us 9 hours and part of the road wasn't sealed and ...

... open by the river. Ants and I chose the under the stars option and it was another relaxing evening playing with the puppies(tree house owners 4 fluffy wee things) and a couple of quiets after a scramble up the gorge. Yesterday was a drive day with only a short stop for lunch and a shop in Kos. We in Olympos now some more ruins and a relaxing day at the beach. Gotta fly so more latter Cy and Ants

... Tuesday mornýng headýng towards Anzac Cove to spend the nýght at the Banana Bar ýn tents on the shores of the Dardenalles or however you spell ýt. Next mornıng we had a guıded tour of Gallıpolı whıch was awesome to see wıthout the crowds. From there we caught a ferry across the Dardenalles and then headed South to Troy to check out the ruı ...

... In the summertime the place is just crawling with gap year backpackers and therefore the town must take on the air of a Roman Orgy. Alas, it was a more quiet Olympus that we rolled into. The town basicly shuts down in November, so we caught the tail end of the season. I don't know that I'd want it any other way though. We ended up staying at the Saban Pension in a bungalow with a bathroom and shower. The room and two outstanding meals ran us 50 Turkish Lira a day. This is roughly 33 ...

... the north east of Antalya. It is close the the present day town of Asku. This ancient town was ruled by the Greeks, Persians and like many places in this region, the Romans where it reached it zenith of prosperity. What fascinated me was development of the city stopped end of the Byzantine period and it was subsequently abandoned to ...