Happy Labour day to everyone at home. Hope you enjoy your day off. We are back on the bus and visited the town of Perge where we saw the best preserved Roman Baths in Turkey and also with a lot of imagination the nicest shopping street in Ancient times. Next stop is Aspendos Archaeological site. This has the best preserved Greco Roman theatre we will see in this trip and it is still very much in original condition with very little reconstruction .  Still hot t...

What a great day. Glenn went for a swim in the ocean that was like glass first thing this morning. As it was a day where nothing was planned by Insight a few if us chose to go into the town and do a 2 hour oat ride around the coast. There are 17 of us and we travel into town via 4 taxis. At the marina we negotiate a price for a 2 hour cruise. Works out about 16 lira each. We all get settled at the front if the boat. It's a good opportunity to get to know some of...

This morning we visit the Ancient city of Heropolis. The ruins of the Greco Roman city are not the reason we have come here. Over millions of years the calcium rich thermal water that's been pouring out of the ground and then dried up has created calcium terraces. The Turks refer to them as the cotton terraces as anything white to them is likened to cotton where we would most likely compare it to snow. The fairytale Snow White and the Seven dwarfs is told to the...

Our hotel in Antalya is right on the beach. There is a tunnel that goes under the road. The beach is pebbly and the water is beautiful. Clear, clean and refreshing. There are a few waves but they don't actually break so its easy to just go up and down with them. We are in the water for quite sometime and like be Aegean Sea the Mediterranean is very salty. From the beach we go straight to one if the hotel pools. After dinner we go for a walk along the foreshor...

Our hotel last night was in the Thermal water area of Pamukkale. It was not the fanciest of hotels and they did not supply drinking water and although we had a kettle and cups in our room it cost 8 Turkish Lira for a T bag! The pool and bar area however was beautiful. The thermal pools within the hotel complex had a outdoor pools all fed from Thermal Springs . The hottest was 44C down to 34C . Way too hot for us so we opted for the beautiful outdoor pool. A swi...