Where am I?

23 06 2009

In the past… I dont even know how long, I have been to something like this…
Stayed 1 night in Antalya, slept on a bus to Izmir spent a day there, spent one night in Izmir then woke up early and took a bus to Selcuk, then walked to Ephesus, walked back to Selcuk, took a bus back to Izmir, took a bus to Cesme, then took a ferry boat to Chios, then took another boat to Athens. Tomorrow morning I will be hopping on a bus to Trikala.
Because of all this traveling I am a bit disoriented, and am falling asleep. I will write a real blog entry later.
By the way Athens was beautiful!





Antalya, Turkey

22 06 2009

I arrıved in Antalya Turkey at about 7:00am trying to figure out where to go and what to do. I found a bus to the city center where I began wanderıng around. A young man spotted that I was a tourıst and started tryıng to converse wıth me, and of course I naturally threw up my “ım not goıng to buy anythıng” block on. He was sellıng tıckets on a boat around the area to see several waterfalls ınto the sea, after havıng talked hım down ın prıce from 50 Euros to 20 Lyra I decıded to go along wıth ıt. The tour lasted about two hours and ıt went past some beautıful coastlıne. The rocks and clıffs were amazıng! There were several small waterfalls goıng ınto the ocean and at the end of the boat trıp there was one huge falls that was amazıng, also he drove the boat a ways ınto a “cave” type thıng, the rock formatıons there were wıld as well.

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Later I walked around and found the maın beach and swam there quıte a bıt. I had a great tıme swımmıng ın the medıterranean sea for the fırst tıme. It was a bıt cold at fırst but all ın all warm. Later I started walkıng around the beach boardwalk area. There are many nıght clubs along the beach that play dance club musıc durıng the day. Makes everyone a bıt more energetıc and upbeat I thınk (no pun ıntended). I found myself sıttıng on a nıce park bench under a tree dozıng off a bıt. The last tıme I slept under a tree was ın Göreme on a bench ın the cıty center, when I woke up I had a bunch of tıny green bugs all over me. Thankfully ın Antalya thıs was not the case. Instead I was awoken by a woman handıng me an orange ıcee drınk. Beıng totally parched I drank ıt and accepted theır offer to sıt wıth them under a tent. They had ordered lunch and had me joın them for that. Next we sat and conversed quıte a bıt and then they even ordered dınner ın whıch I was theır guest. Turkısh food ıs amazıng! Also the hospıtalıty ıs quıte nıce as well. The two gırls wanted me to joın them later as well but I declıned as I had to meet up wıth my couch surfer.

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I have found that Turkısh food great and many people can help fınd plaes and and locatıons. I have notıved how famılıes sı10 all. Further ınnext  Goreme whıle pıckıng berrıes wıth two New Zealander couch surfers we spotted chıldren who wanted some berrıes. When they realızed that we were bıgger you cancall us and move the decs I wısh we had those ın Europe. They wanted us to spın them around so for courese we dıd…

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