The Mediterranean

Today we left Konya and have travelled down to Anatayla by the deep blue Mediterranean Sea. We passed through productive looking wheat fields and then some barren land as we passed over the mountain range. Im assuming it snows here in the winter as the hill tops were barren. The trees were a variety of fir trees all shapes and sizes and the rocks looked as though someone was making grey pancakes and didn't know how to stop so just threw them all over the place.

Akseki was an industrial town with a huge steel mill and other unnamed buildings. We stopped to get petrol and as we are on the highway we are allowed to use the broom and water to wash our car down. While this was all happening I sat in the car and next thing one of the men from the petrol station tapped on the window with a glass of apple tea. Wow imagine that happening at home!

We visited a couple of waterfalls before setting out to find a place to stay for the night. Apparently there is a stretch of 12km with hotels. We have a 2star room for 50L which included dinner and breakfast. Dinner consisted of a oily mushroom soup and dry fish which had lots of bones. It has been our worst meal so far. After choosing this hotel we went to the tourist end of this subburb called Lara and walked through the really narrow streets lined with sellers and their wares. This led down to a small fishing harbour and we ended going on a 45min cruise for 5L each. It was beautiful out on the ocean looking back at the Roman fortress and a waterfall. Hotels and houses were built right out on the rocks. There was no beach here, just cliffs to the ocean. We had stopped on the way at Side for pizza lunch with a breathtaking view of the tourist section of the coast. To look along at the string of high rise buildings, unbrella beaches, tourists charter boats and tourists themselves you wouldnt believe there was another Turkey where we had come from.