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Intrepidness
... to bring me to the hotel where my tour was starting! It's just fascinating to have a cab driver meander through the narrow roads with markets and bicycles everywhere, and say," Here is your hotel, ok?". Yes! Question mark! He made three stops and said/asked me that every time. When I told him that I didn't see my hotel name anywhere, and no I wasn't getting out, he asked someone on the street and I was safe and sound. Yay! My tour guides name ...
Turquoise Coast
... change of clothing for the night but chose to return back to Fethiye via the last dolmush. A decent workout for the day.
A short dolmush ride from Fethiye is the ghost town of Kayakoy (once called Karmulassos by its Greek inhabitants). The surprising fact about this town is its relatively recent history dating back to WWI. The League of Nations oversaw a population exchange between Ottoman Greeks and Greek Muslims in 1923 after Turkey's War of ...
Kas-hing in
... taxi driver employed one of our favourite manoeuvres - parking in front of our bus so it can't leave until we are on it!
We met Richard and Nicki in Kas. They were on their way back to NZ from Europe. Turkey was their last stop after travelling overland down from the Baltic. We enjoyed their stories of dumplings and former ...
Fethiye
On our 70 foot Gulut! We are in boat day #2 and it has been fantastic. This Agean coast is called the Turquoise Coast, the water really is that color. We are with 14 others, nice group. This is the largest teak yacht I have been on and it is really ...
The first island of many
I thought Kastellorizo deserved a mention even if I was only there for a total of 3 hours...I was en route to Rhodes, and left Turkey for my first experience of Greek Island life at 10 in the morning. It was only 20 minutes across to Kastellorizo, and with the Greeks and Turks seeming to be not the best of mates, I had to laugh when we hit the half way point and one of the crew hastily swaps all Turkish insignia (including flags) to Greek ones - at least ...
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