Palace Of The Lost City Sun City

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 ...

(Engl&#305;sh follows)<br><br>Ou&#305;, imaginez-vous donc qu'on est alles fa&#305;re du paraglyd&#305;ng a part&#305;r de 7 000 p&#305;eds dans la montagne. C'est s&#305;mple... surtout pour mo&#305; (Jean) qu&#305; a&#305; peur des hauteurs... on nous attache a une sorte de gros parachute... on a un gu&#305;de avec nous... on cour sur le sommet de la ...

... one of the many nearby restaurants, where they cook it for you! We were lucky enough to have a local gal help us pick out our fish, and then we ate at her family's restaurant. They cooked the fish, gave us garlic bread, a huge salad, and fish sauce for 4.5 Lira! We also got to have some Raki with the family, and talked with their son about his upcoming trip to the US. It was a very rewarding evening.<br>The next ...

... ght! The fam&#305;ly greeted us &#305;n the dark and prepared a wonderful meal wh&#305;ch was del&#305;c&#305;ous (and we were starv&#305;ng!). What a welcome from people who could only say one word &#305;n Engl&#305;sh (Welcome!). We were alone w&#305;th them, commun&#305;cat&#305;ng by s&#305;gn language and we wondered &#305;f people &#305;n our area would do th&#305;s &#305;f someone showed up one even&#305;ng!!

Strange how everything seems so familiar, we even seem to know our way around. Oh now we understand we were here 61 days ago. It is good to see that we have been travelling for the last couple of months and haven't even made any ground. We have just been doing a big circle. <br><br>We made our way to the city center, dropped off our bags and went straight away to find out the ferries to Rhodes. Unfortunately there are no ferries on Sunday, the next ...

... doing so next to him. After a bit of convincing he decided to give it a try but it ended up being quite a funny scene of a boy gripped to the side of the slide! If any of you have methods to drive fears away, please do feel free to share them with me! My son is afraid of heights (when I say heights it's something like 1 meter high!), of the water (he'd never put his head into the water), of dogs...well actually of any animal bigger than a ladybug! So his mum decided to take ...

... to make you use your wallet. We have to walk through the arcade games to reach the Valley of Waves; the eyes of my son were shining with envy as we slowly made our way through. Him and his newly made friend are already discussing their favourite games and super hero. Escalators take you to the third level and you get out back into daylight. It's a beautiful site, an elephant, a monkey and a tiger are engraved into the rock. You ...

... explanation all we could remember from the chat were the animal impressions of the wildlife in the area which were pretty hilarious. The weather was amazing, so first day we headed to Sun City's Valley of the Waves. What an experience!!! It's a massive wave pool which works like a toilet flushing, it builds up water in a "wall" which is like a massive cistern and then when the alarm goes it flushes itself producing a very powerful wave. Unfortunately when we thought it was ...

We left Pilansberg on a bit of a high and headed into Sun City for a cool down. The valley of Waves sounded like a hoot and after not much convincing we were making our way over there. For something that is called "The valley of the waves" there weren't too many waves BUT it was fun none the less. We went down the slides separately and then together. Justin seemed to think that I was going to go on this slide ...