Blogs from Olympos, Mediterranean, Turkey, Middle East - page 2

This morning I woke up feeling sick, so I stayed back at the place we were staying and had a quiet day. The others went for a walk to the beach, but we were going rockclimbing that afternoon so I wanted to be feeling better for that. So at 4 we headed out to the outdoor rockclimbing wall, which is beside the river which runs through the mountains. It is dry during summer though. The couple from our tour chose to go fishing but the rest of us did the rockclimbing. The guides set up two areas for us to trying climbing, I did the harder one first because I knew I'd be tired doing whichever one I did second. I managed to get up both, have quite a few scrapes and bruises to show for ... read more

It was our last day at the Tree houses in Olympos and I made the most of it by doing nothing all day! I just hung out in the lounges, read, and played backgammon (I can’t get enough!) It was a nice change of pace, I mean don’t get me wrong it’s amazing to see lots of old things and to have new experiences, but having a day just to relax and peace out was well worth it. Marcus went with Hasan to a nearby beach, and Taylee and Brett went Scuba diving that morning, so Bex, Fatih and I just enjoyed ourselves. I got to talk to one of Faith’s friends, Emre, on the phone who is also a tour guide for Fez Travel, and he was a few days behind us in Kusadasi with ... read more

This morning we got up and started our drive to Olympos, a backwoods town in the valley of the mountains. On the way there we stopped outside of Kas to go swimming. I thought it was odd that we were stopping randomly in the middle of our drive to go swimming, until I saw exactly where it was. Before it was announced that this particular area was where we were swimming I was already drooling over the water. As we drove along the coast we could look down and see the water as it clashed against the rocks below, but at one point there was a nice beach and the water was a beautiful deep blue, but right where it hit the beach it was an amazing light blue. It is very difficult to describe; we ... read more

So….. we sort of got stuck in Olympus. After getting over the first night in the bird explosion dorm at grungy Kadirs, we knew we were happy at Bayrams Tree houses thanks to a wonderful gay bartender from California named Tyler, a chef who made sure I had lots of gluten free food, amazing Turkish staff, and for $17 a night a clean and warm dorm, breakfast and dinner. We had planned to stay 3 nights there, but then we had a couple days of crap weather and felt we had to give it a few more days when the sun came out. Every day we kept meeting new cool people, and suddenly 3 days had turned into 7… and it was Saturday night again. We had met some cool London girls and a couple from ... read more

Después de desayunar Sandra y yo salimos a dar una última vuelta por Kaş y Julián y César fueron a comprar otra Narguila. Salimos del pueblo como a las 10 AM y nos fuimos manejando hacía nuestro siguiente punto: El sitio arqueológico de Myra, en la actual ciudad de Demre. El sitio arqueológico contiene muchas tumbas Licias excavadas contra la montaña. En ellas se enterraban a los aristócratas Licios, y están muy padres, son un poco como Petra (Jordania) en chiquito. Junto a las tumbas hay un teatro griego, construido mucho después que la necrópolis. Estuvimos como una hora en el sitio arqueológico, explorando el teatro y viendo las tumbas. Adentro de las tumbas se supone que hay algunos frescos, pero desafortunadamente ya no se puede entrar. En la misma ciudad hay otro sitio importante: La ... read more