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<\/a> Claire on the deck looking north at the cloud shrouded mountains.<\/p>\nFethiye was far more to our liking than Marmaris.\u00a0 Marmaris was a rich town, with very little in the way of authentic feel left.\u00a0 It was glitz and glamour and most of the tourists looked like they arrived by yacht.\u00a0 Fethiye on the other hand had a much more down to earth feel.\u00a0 While it is still very touristy, but it didn’t have the 25 m all wooden yachts lined one after the other, and most restaurants didn’t have food at 30 lira a plate (as a comparison, the normal kebab price is 3 lira).<\/p>\n
Fethiye hosts a market every Tuesday and Friday.\u00a0 The Tuesday market is veggies and “stuff” (like knockoff purses, t-shirts, etc) and the Friday one is just veggies.\u00a0 We walked through the Tuesday market and found the the majority of the ‘stuff’ to be very, well, kind of crappy.\u00a0 Many of the prices were marked in British Pounds, and as a result were way too high.\u00a0 On top of that, it looked like it was all made in China.\u00a0 Needless to say we bought nothing.\u00a0 The veggie part of the market is another thing entirely.<\/p>\n Turkey has some of the most wonderful and delicious fruits and vegetables that I have had in a very long time.\u00a0 Claire and I splurged and spent 25 Lyra and ended up with more as much food as we could carry.\u00a0 Eggplant, peppers, onions, potatoes, peaches, strawberries, fresh figs, tomatoes, cucumbers, the list goes on, but it was all local and some would have been hard to find in North America at all.<\/p>\n We had only a couple days where we did anything of note (I love holiday), but one of them was a “12 Islands Boat Tour”.\u00a0 We booked with a company called Popeye and took the Olive Oyl to three of the islands and steamed passed the other nine.\u00a0 The boat was 28 Brits, two Turks, and us.\u00a0 We spent the day just messing around in confined quarters, sunbathing, and swimming.\u00a0 Overall it was quite pleasant, with a tasty lunch and friendly staff.<\/p>\n The other thing that we did that is worth mentioning was a hike along the Lycian Way.\u00a0 This is a multi-leg, multi-day trip along the southern coast of Turkey and is the first trail of its kind here.\u00a0 We did a pretty short section from Faralya to Kabak Valley.\u00a0 It was a three hour hike and that seemed like plenty in the nearly 30 deg temperatures.\u00a0 The landscape alternated between pine forest and open, terraced farm land, that was at this time of year dry and unused.\u00a0 The views along the coast and down into the amazing Butterfly Valley were breathtaking.\u00a0 The gem of the hike though was the end.\u00a0 We arrived at Kabak Valley and expected to find another tourist beach, but what we found instead was closer to a secluded hippie commune.\u00a0 There were about 15 people at the beach with 4 rustic sun huts that were free to use setup along the sand (compare to previous post).\u00a0 It was deep in a valley and not a single person offered to sell us anything while we were there.\u00a0 This was the Turkey that Claire and I had hoped to find.<\/p>\n<\/a> Seth wearing an “authentic” shepherds hat.\u00a0 I don’t know how you could watch a flock through this thing!
\n<\/a> An improvised dock at the ship yard.\u00a0 Three sunken boats tied together.
\n<\/a> A really cool natural sculpture from eight small trees.<\/p>\n<\/a> A view of about 1% of the veggie market.\u00a0 Yum, yum!<\/p>\n<\/a> Claire standing at the bow of the Olive Oyl.
\n<\/a> The ice cream man makes his round of the yachts.
\n<\/a> One of the sailors on our boat prepares lunch on the on-board bbq.<\/p>\n<\/a> What are you hiding under here?
\n<\/a> Claire standing over Butterfly Valley.<\/p>\n