Sunday 13th April, 2014
The news, so far, from home is mostly good - Cyclone Ita, it seems, provided good opportunities for cleaning up, securing property, appreciating what we have, building solidarity and enjoying enforced down-time. I guess the other stories will emerge, as they always do, of inconvenience, but no disasters or tragedies - phew!
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| Haha! My cowgirl's photo's of the farm. Brings back memories.... |
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| And from my circus girl, her pond has never been bigger. Go boys! |
Today, I heeded the call of the sea and took a boat trip on a Turkish gulet. We left from Ucagiz, and visited the ruins of Aperlae (famous, in my mind now, for first manufacturing the colour purple, from a locally found shell). It amazes me how casual Turkey is about the ancient history that's all around them here - I sat on a Lycian olive press, others perched on ancient walls, and a little boy from our tour group, drew graffiti with a rock on the inside of a Lycian tomb, as we listened to our guide tells us about the Lycian, Greek, Roman, Byzantinian and Hellenistic ruins in the area, and then we wandered at will among them.
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| Pirates, from Egypt, plundered the tombs, knowing from the Egyptian slaves in Lycia that great wealth was buried with its owner |
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| A Lycian tomb inscription warning against tampering with the tomb, lest evil befall the tamperer |
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| Back to our gulet for lunch |
From Aperlae, we visited ruins surrounding a beautiful natural harbour on Kekova Island. Some young people braved the 12degee water and swam ashore to explore - I was happy just to send my Tevas off, on my behalf, with one of them....
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| Note the three parallel contrails in the sky above the Byzantinian wall - made of irregular-shaped blocks |
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| Our guide, supervising entry into the water |
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| Lycian wall - made of asymmetrical blocks |
Then we sailed over the sunken city (destroyed by earthakes, several times over) for the length of Kekova Island.
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| That's how we looked too |
And visited Simena.....
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| Simena |
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| Pirate-plundered tomb |
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| Guide, Kadir, says the oldest olive tree is 3000 years old, and many in the area are 1000. This one? |
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| Simena. Beware, an olive tree fascination is developing.... |
Back here at Santosa Pansiyon, our host cooked a delicious BBQ meal (20TL) and now it's bedtime. My plan for tomorrow is evolving....
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