Antalya!

March 28, 2006, 11:44 pm

After waking up from 5 hours sleep, we were quite exhausted now, my legs hurt from all the driving, we already drove 3200km and almost continously. We left the gas station. It was already quite warm and today we only had to drive 250km. Around Antalya the landscape was getting beautiful.
The eclipse is getting closer now! We entered Antalya at 2 o’clock pm, this town was very busy one, we went on in the direction of the old part of the city. We found a nice small pension, so that’s settled then, no problems at all. We did account for the fact that everything was full during this time, in that case we had to sleep in the Benz, but this was not necessary. The Saharagelber was parked at a guarded parking lot. We found a nice public square and we decided to watch the eclipse over there. We met two dutch guys and with one of them we had a nice chat. We agreed to meet up here after the eclipse (he was watching the eclipse somewhere else) and then go to the ruins of Aspendos. It was nice, this guy was a boomerang man and was demonstrating his boomerangs on this public square. It was all quite relaxed, we were planning to skip the tourist place Antalya as much as possible, but we actually find it a very nice place to be, the turks are so friendly, the old citadel is very, very nice and the first real impresssion of Turkey is a very positive one! In the evening Melis and I had dinner in a very cosy place on a terrace.

This restaurant was cosey, but the food was very bad, I won’t waste anymore bytes on this We had fun about it though and we finished the night wit a nice walk through the old tiny streets of the citadel. It was so nice to relax after a 3,5 day drive of 3450km.