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to Milas by puwer98 a member of our forum
part 2
This
is Bozburun |
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get back and complete the circular tour you
need to go back around five miles to the
Bayir turn off, this is a single track road
with passing places, but not many, you think
you are going to enter a quarry but just
keep going and eventually you come to a T
junction, turn left there is a rusty sign
post opposite, if you turn right you end up
a a village called Taşlica, and have to
do a u turn. So we turned left, continue
along this road till you come to a side road
to the right this leads to the sea coast
village of çilik,
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can only go back from here, then continue
down the very steep road to Bayir
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back to Içmeler
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This
completes ours second days holiday, we just
had a few pints and some food.
Thursday 28/5/09
We left Icmeller heading for Fethiye, There
is snow on the mountains |
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took a wrong turn and decided to continue to
Salikent gorge,
http://www.saklikentgorge.net/
I took loads of pictures here, but decided
to put this link on instead, which is the
largest and deepest and runs for 18K. We
stayed the night in Kalkan at the Oz pension
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price was 60tl which included breakfast,
which took some eating. There are a lot of
steps in the pension, so not good for people
with walking difficulties.
Friday 29/5/09
I took these this morning of Kalkan
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We
had breakfast then set off for Kas. On the
way we stopped at Kaputas, there is a gorge
running into the sea and a small white sandy
beach, a gullet was just arriving
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then went onto Kaş, it was market day
and quite busy, pictures are of the harbour, |
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did not stop as no where to park, picture of
steep hill on the exit road |
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next one shows the island of Meis |
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This
is the last island you can go to renew your
visa and the crossing is only 20 minuets. We
went thought Demre (better known as (Kale)
where St Nicolas (father Christmas) is
buried presumably, It was the Russians who
ran off with his body in the 1800’s, but
his grave is still there. The next place was
Finike which has a very long beach
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We
then went through the small town of Kumluca,
where there is lot’s of building going on
and modernizing existing apartments. We then
went on to Olympos, there are many tree
house pensions here, we counted over 60
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it was very commercialised. I walked up to
the entrance to the ruins, but it was much
too hot as it was after 2pm, entrance would
have been 10TL. We then went onto çirali
which was like Oludenez before it got
commercialised. We found a small pension and
camp site called Sahil pension, it is 50TL
including breakfast. The beach here is small
pebbles, but has sand further back, it is
very hot, much hotter than Didim, we are
just sat outside having a few cans of Efes.
We are going out for a meal later tonight,
Susan fancies the Kalamari 14Tl but only if
it’s fresh, it was and very nice too. We
put on the air con then went to bed.
Saturday 30/5/09
After breakfast we left around 9.30am
heading for Antalya, on the way the road
goes through a few tunnels, most don’t
have the lights on, it makes it so difficult
to see, a good job there are only short. We
stopped at Kemer a massive marina with some
very expensive boats in. (pic), then on to
Antalya, this place is a bloody nightmare,
after passing the university hospital twice
trying to find the town centre, we headed
for the only place that we new, which was
Isparta, there were three lanes of heavey
traffic for over 5 miles, Isparta is 100K
away so off we went. It is a good road the
650 with little traffic, we were hoping we
could get onto the 350 which goes to Denizli,
but no luck there, Signposts are very far
and few between. We left Isparta on the 685
heading for Dinar, then on to Denizli, and
Pumukkale, this place has changed a lot
since our first visit in 2003, where we
parked the car then, now there is a massive
wild life park and pond, we were just
stopped by the side of the road when a guy
on a scooter pulls up asking if we are
looking for a pension, I thought here we go
another rip off merchant, but no he took us
to his mother and fathers pension, very nice
with a pool which is filled every 10 days by
the water from the thermal springs. The room
had air con and plenty of hot water, we
stayed there for an evening meal, soup to
start then grilled chicken meat balls and
salad, the room was 50TL we had four bottles
beer and the meal which was ( 75
TL). After breakfast we set off for
Aydin.
Sunday 31/5/09
We paid our bill and headed for Aydin which
is 130K. We stopped at Forum Aydin this is a
new out of town shopping complex the goods
on sale are genuine, Susan got some perfume
and me a CD from a shop a bit like
waterstones in the UK, which sells English
books and DVD's. We were hoping to stop in
Selcuk, but we rang ahead and it was full.
(you lot were all there), so we stayed in
Kusadasu at the Yorkshire apart otel (50tl)
which is on the new market street. The
market as now been put mack it it's former
glory by the new mayor (CHP party) and is on
a Wednesday.
Monday 1/6/09
We left after a free breakfast, which was
unexpected Tel Mehmet 0256 612 9441. We
stopped at the Soke outlet at Tenzek to get
an electric mossies machine, and some
speakers for the PC (46 and 18tl) we also
got a brolly and stand for 30tl.
All in all it has been a real good week,
looking forward to our next holiday in
October.
Costings
Car booked in Febuary 10 days £160
Accommodation 7 nights 350tl
petrol 350tl
food and beer around 500tl
other goods bought around 300tl
We did around 1700K or 1000 miles
We have hundreds of picture's we took, email
me if you want them.
We had a great holiday at home, at no time
did we get any hassle, all the pensions were
very good, it is about 5 degrees hotter than
here,
Would we do it again, you bet. |
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