We travelled to Olympos, which is a small wooded valley by the sea, it has a conservation order that nothing can be brick built, and there is no camping, so we are staying in wooden huts, they call them tree houses, but they are not up in trees, the complex we are staying in has lots of orange and Lemon trees, the blossom fragrance is everywhere. There are small ruins near the beach, which, of course you have to pay for, but it is cheap if you get the multi ent...

Well we have travelled from Istanbul to Oludeniz via a bush camp in the mountains. This country is far different than expected, much greener and the smells of the herbs as we travel through the mountains attacks your sense of smell constantly. The truck attracts attention wherever it goes, many people taking pictures and waving at us. We are staying at the old hippy backpackers site of sugar beach. Jackie has taken a flight on a paraglider today, I bottled out,...

We have arrived at Dereli campsite near Ephesus ancient city of the Greeks and Romans, we are camping right on the beach, and cooking on open fires, however, paradise always has another side and that is mosquitoes! they are everywhere and a few people have suffered, not us, really as we took precautions. Also some of the group went straight in the sea and promptly got themselves sun burnt and are now gingerly walking around, still they are not to bad and it will...

We have spent the last three days as tourists in this amazing city.The weather also turned up trumps as it has been hot each day.We visited a number of sites including the grand bazaar where Jackie bought her outfit for Iran as did all the other girls in the trip. We also went to the blue mosque, the Topkia Palace and the Haghia Sofia, these had an Interesting history and fantastic architecture. As this period is a holiday time, it was very busy, but even so, it...

We left our campsite in Bulgaria, after a goodbye from a troupe of singing ladies set up by the campsite owners, they were in traditional dress and we all took part in dancing with them. we cross the border into Turkey, which was relatively painless for us and therefore only took about an hour. As we travel towards Istanbul, the country is very similar to the UK, however there are no Churches, but plenty of Mosques and national flags of Turkey. We stop overnight ...