Turkey: from Kurdistan to Lycia
[21/12/17]
After a few days of chilling in Diyarbakir I tried to leave the city by hitchhiking (unlike iranians, turks know what hitchhiking is). However, I was unsuccessful at that and the only vehicle that stopped for me in 1.5 hours was a bus.
So I was using buses from then on, not being in the mood to wait for hours again. As soon as I left Kurdistan it became much less interesting but the police relaxed as well, which is definitely a good thing.
Since then nothing worth mentioning was happening to me (well, except that one time when I got approached by an undercover cop in the bus terminal in Antalya, with whom I was very rude, thinking he was a scammer) so I will summarize the last days. I passed Tigris and Euphrates and made it to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.
Currently I am in Antalya which is exactly what you'd expect a resort town to be. A pleasant place, but boring, not even one battle helicopter flying at night, so lame...
Anyway, near Antalya there are some very comfy and beautiful places called Olympos (ruins of an ancient city) and Çıralı village, which is also extensively used by tourists, but now it's the low season so nobody is there.
I hitched a few cars to get there and it was quite easy, I guess I was just unlucky the last time.
And close by Olympos there is a place called Yanartaş, where perpetual fires burn, nearby a ruined temple of Hephaistos. These are the natural gas vents that's been burning for hundreds of years already.
More photos:
Previous post: Turkey: Kurdistan, riding along the borders of Iraq and Syria with wasted kurds at 170 kmph
Check out my travel blog:
Turkey: 21
Iran: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Tajikistan: 7, 8, 9, 10
Kyrgyzstan: 4, 5, 6
Kazakhstan: 1, 2, 3
thank you for this share, beautiful glances from your trip... you love cats, don't you ;-) ?
They are much more honest than people
I love the frog photo!
Doing my best, these critters don't like being photographed much
Amazing photos. I can't think of anything less appealing though, than biting into a beautiful orange only to find out it is sour! (as hell).
Yeah, that was a bummer for sure. I thought I got free food growing around.
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Wonderful place, it seems not very cold there
It wasn't cold, it was not warm enough to go swimming, which is why no tourists were around.
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