Riva Atli Bay Konakli

Day 53

Not much to say today. I was pretty lazy for some reason and did not leave the hotel until 11am. Someone else had borrowed the hotel bicycle so I had to get the local bus out to Anemurium ('place of the winds') to see the ancient ruins built by the Byzantines. The city was founded in the 1st century AD but hit hard by an earthquake around 580.

Since it was 110 km / 3 hour ...

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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 ...

In 2500 Jahren Kultur- und H**rschaftsgeschichte kann einiges geschehen. Und so kann man als Kulturfreund an d** Türkischen Rivi**a jeden Tag üb** die üb**wachsenen Trümm** ein** and**en antiken Kleinstadt klett**n, staunt üb** frisch ausgegrabene Statuen römisch** Kais** und griechisch** Gött**, wund**t sich üb** riesige Amphitheat** und Th**men, v**gleichsweise winzige byzantinische Kirchen, stattliche Kreuzritt**burgen, seldschukische Festungen und mod**ne T ...

... took their pictures and then the road was declared free again, so everybody ran backk to their cars and trucks and the race continued. All in all, our average dropped to 40 kph, we had not been that slow since the Sudan deserts. 400 in one day?, forget it! The benefit of all this was that we reached a high point and saw a third country we would not enter: Kibris for the Turkish, Cyprus for all the others. It lay on the horizon, barely visible. At one o ...

... gay the place is during the summer, but there is a melancholy about them, and the town, now that the beautiful people are gone. But they will be well positioned when the new people start arriving in April or May. November 12, 2007 Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey We travel inland into central of Anatolia to get to Cappadocia. We travel by bus from Fethiye to Goreme where we are picked by a van from our hotel in Urgup, arriving in the dark of the morning. Our trip to Cappadocia is a ...

... 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 ...

... Roman ruins and an equally large amount of touristy shops and restaurants. I didn't care much for the commercialism (although the bellydance outfits were a little bit better quality) but the ruins were awesome, and the only part I saw that charged admission (the Roman Theater) was 5 Turkish Lira. That's less than 4 dollars/3 Euros/2 Pounds. Compare that with 11 Euros a head to get into the ruins in Rome!

Hi folks hope everyone is well we having a great time seeing some amazing stuff and mixing hardout sight seeing with some flatout relaxing GOOD TIMES!! So Sulcuk was a nice laidback town and we went to the ruins of Ephesus which were in pretty good condition compared to troy some restoration had been done but pretty tastfully so as not to ruin the historic look. After a hot morning exploring ...

... a kıwı pensıon (aka a budget hotel) tonıght - yay for runnıng water! And a loo where you can sıt down ınstead of squat! Then off to vısıt the Temples - St John and Atermıs - tomorrow. Also goıng to the ruıns of Ephesus so wıll need a beer or 5 after all that sıght seeıng.. That's ıt folks Cy and Ants

... frenzy) that operate between the Med towns of Fetihye and Olimpos. Inshallah. The harbour is of course the place where the Antalya tour boats operate from and going on a one hour harbour cruise at about noon was the one touristy thing that İ nearly did today. I say nearly and if u read on ull know why. It cost €5 and the tout outside the boat said that there were 3 other people on board and we'd leave in 5min. Sure enough there were ındeed 3 other ...