Blue Hole Villa: June 2014

Sunday, June 29, 2014

At restaurant we saw thus ceiling made of crunched up paper, looked like mountains.

Lycian Tombs at Dalyan

Had to view these from a distance, really impressive, There are so many tourists I can understand why you can't get any closer.

Lycian Tombs

After lunch we headed down the river to the tombs. It's such a busy place they have a highway of channels, follow one to go down, another to go up.

Mud at Dalyan

After the mud we rinsed off in the shower, then went in a thermal pool.

Mud Baths at Dalyan

Supposed to make you feel 10 years younger......we went into a pool of mud, scooped it out and plastered ourselves with it.

Dalyan - Boats - Mud - Tombs

Made a day trip to Dalyan, about an hour from Fethiye.

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Tomb of Amyntas - Ionic Temple

After the boat cruise we walked up to these ruins, sweating big time. Simply unbelievable how they carved them into rock. There are three large ones, a bunch of smaller sized ones.

Right smack in the middle of the road was a nice tomb. They had an area of the ruins fenced off, unfortunately people were trashing it.
We walked the back streets, kids playing, ladies chatting, napping on rugs all in the shaded streets.

12 Island Cruise From Fethiye

We were picked up at our hotel, driven to the dock. Left port around 10:30. There are tons of these cruises, and really cheap. One of the boats was enormous, looked like Noah's Ark. We returned around 6 PM.

Tombs - Sun Going Down

Tombs 350 BC Telmessos

They did good work back then. There are three of the large tombs carved into the sheer rock face. Fethiye has built up around the cliff, so the tombs are obscured from view if you are walking the city streets. There was an earthquake in 1958, leveled the city but spared the ruins.