Olympos, Turkey

The rocky beach at the ancient city of Olympos.
Ruins everywhere, and a pretty girl too.
What a happy couple! (marriage material?)
Just your average, gigantic, ancient gateway in the woods...
Our view from our bungalow...

We planned on staying for a few hours to see the ruins of the ancient city and stayed for four days. It was a beautiful valley filled with the ruins of an ancient city at every turn. Tombs, castles, walls, theaters, archways, more castles - everywhere you turned, down every wooded path. It felt like you were the first person to discover it all. We met great people from all over the world and ate amazing home-cooked food in a setting that we would have stayed in for a week more if we didn't want to move on and see Greece. Each day we were there we said was our last. On our third day we even packed our bags and carried then out, only to return them to our room after deciding over breakfast to stay one more day. What a surprise this place was. We got to swim in the clear blue, very cold waters of the Agean Sea and it felt great - not quite in the same way as the warm oceans of South East Asia, rather in a more, ah, refreshing way. Finally, with many good-byes we hopped on a bus and headed to Bodrum for our final stop in Turkey.