Roman Times

Hi All,

Sorry about the delay in getting this post out.  We have been exceptionally busy swimming, eating beautiful seafood dinners and generally just having a great time.

Yesterday:  We unfortunately left Kas. It was by far one of the most beautiful places we have been and the village life was amazing.  We did some shopping, ate amazing food (broke a tooth as u know), then hit the road again for another day of adventure.  Our adventures took us to “Xanthos” (pronounced Santos) another old Roman ruin. We visited a beautiful gorge with gushing water coming from melted snow from the top of the mountain.  The water was icy cold and an amazing shade of lush green and very refreshing, especially in 40 degree weather. After this it was off to another carpet making place, where they showed us the local rugs being made and how they died the fibres. Don’t worry, no magic carpets again, we didn’t get caught haggling again like the first time. We will visit haggle co on our return for a cheap knock off. Our daily group mission is to find the cheapest magnum ice-cream of the day and report back to the group. Last night we found one for 2.50 Turkish lira, the equivalent to $1.30 Australian.  Before our magnum hunt, we had dinner in the local fish market.  We chose our seafood from the fish monger and they give it  to the restaurant to cook. All up for drinks, dips, bread, salad, prawns and calamari, dinner cost us $28.00 all up for two people. The food was to die for. After dinner it was back to the hotel in Fethiye to sleep.

Today: We left our tiny hotel room after breakfast and hit the ground running.  We once again packed up our stuff and headed for our chariot (the bus). We visited an abandoned Greek village, named Kayakoy. There are around 2000 houses and a church etc from a Greek village abandoned in the 1920’s (due to the war of independence) but built many many years ago (I forget how many years, I am on holiday and forget many details). Once deserted by the Greeks it was also later damaged by earthquakes. It represents a ghost town when the sun shines through the empty brick windows. After this visitation it was back to another day on the road. We didn’t do much before reaching our hotel except eat lunch, which was nothing impressive today.  Once we reached the hotel, in Pamukkale it was time for a little rest and downloading photos onto computer, while Toot had a nanna nap.  She is old you know!!!!  We then met up with the group again to go and visit Hierapolis (an old Roman city ruins, which included the cemetery, roman bath, theatre, temple, holy area, basilica, the latrine and a monumental fountain). It was quite impressive to see what was achieved that long ago without machinery and modern day engineering.  From there it was onto the thermal baths.  This is nick named the “Cotton Castle” which is a natural phenomenon which was created by deposits from thermal waters that cascaded down the mountain side over hundreds of years, forming a combination of pools and terraces.  We then watched the sun set over ruins from the Roman city and headed back to the hotel for a disappointing buffet, as there are no restaurants near the hotel and no nearby village.

Tomorrow is another day! 

Love always

Toot and Gordo Xx.

PS Scarfe count so far for Toot is 8 and climbing rapidly!

Magic carpet count 0