Royal Garden Marmaris

... Coast, Turkey

Bodrum Peninsula Turkish Aegean Coast, TurkeyBodrum Peninsula Turkish Aegean Coast, Turkey
Bodrum Peninsula Turkish Aegean Coast, TurkeyBodrum Peninsula Turkish Aegean Coast, TurkeyBodrum Peninsula Turkish Aegean Coast, Turkey
Bodrum Peninsula Turkish Aegean Coast, TurkeyBodrum Peninsula Turkish Aegean Coast, TurkeyBodrum Peninsula Turkish Aegean Coast, Turkey

Bodrum Peninsula, Turkish Aegean Coast, Turkey ronamaltz

... the day...


Sadly no turtles, but a lot of birdwatching, including tiny little blue kingfishers, that looked like little kookaburras that had been dyed blue...
I came back to my hostel late in the evening to find that all the prices on the dinner menu had been increased from the night before!! cheeky *******s... Needless to say - I had no reason to stay here another night...

I was really overdue my holidays, finally getting to take it in October and I just signed up to two weeks of not doing much in Turkey with a couple of friends in a group. For me though not doing much isn't my cup of tea so I took every chance to re-live my old Turkey memories, from food, sights, sea, dancing and ahem, yes the men, again :)

Please come back soon as I update all the stories from the two weeks. Thanks.

... tour to an island that will most likely also have undergone a similar transition.

Does this actually benefit the area? I have to assume that it does, that the number of tourists who travel through from cruise liners and package holidays enjoy the ability to simply relax away from home, thus bringing in vital income to the area. But I hope that areas that cater to the travellers market (for people like myself) is not ignored as ...

Awoke near Pamukkale and paid a scandalous amount to get in. 10 pounds each to see some tepid pools of water. Even the initially striking karstic rock was pretty much covered in faint brown footprints. The extorsion didn't end there as it turned out that Cleopatra's Baths, the hot spring at the top was an additional cost. We thought we could get away with just paying for one of us to get in and then swapping the ...

... fruit wine tasting sounded like a good plan...so we all went for it.

The fruit wine was delicious. At 8% it's a lot less alcoholic than regular wine. It tastes like fruit juice and you could practically drink it for breakfast. At 10 lira a bottle ($6.66, or the price of two beers at ever bar or restaurant we've been to), it was also a great deal. Kristen and I bought 3 bottles which we planned to have over the next few nights or on our Gulet cruise. Pomegranite ...

... destination again today and this makes us feel great.

Bodrum is the Turkish name of Alikarnasos, once belonged to Greece. Greeks had to leave behind their belongings - businesses, houses, - and flee to other countries to be saved after the Turkish persecution in 1922. (My grandfather was one of them who left behind everything and went to the Island of Cyprus in a boat to be saved. His brother got in another boat for Greece, and they had never ...

... check out the local details.

Still, the climb up, other than the pesky thorn bushes, was not so tough. There were pretty butterflies and a cave to see on the way. The butterflies had a beautiful, lilting flight rhythm to them. And from the mouth of the cave the sight was most appealing. I didn't notice until viewing my pictures that there was the image of a man's profile to be discerned in the rocks at the upper right. See, forehead, brows, eyelid, eyeball, nose, lips and ...

Bridget writes We had our second dip in the sea on New Year's Day which was a bit cooler than Christmas Day as it was rather cloudy. I was somewhat disappointed with the turn out, but was proud to be the only girl in full fancy dress for the occasion (the old work clothes came in handy!) and thanks to Mum and Dad, Peter had an outfit to wear too!! The tug of war was meant to be an inter-pontoon competition but we only had ...

... who broke up with him 4 years ago. Bayram, the professional photographer on the boat was particularly funny. Ahmet told him I speak a bit of Turkish and poor Bayram actually tried talking to me in Turkish! Thank God his english was better than my Turkish! The Turks really don't like the Russian tourists, and whenever we got a boat full of Russians Bayram would shuffle them about constantly on the ...