Our first hike in Turkey led us from the famous Ölüdeniz beach along the coast with fantastic views. The Ölüdeniz beach is very well known, as pictures of it are on every tourism advertisement. The beach forms a tip at its end and another very secluded bay lies behind it. The famous shots are taken …
Kaunos was another ancient town, but again special due to the famous temple tombs cut into the rock cliff and the delta of the river Kaunos below them. We had waited a day to have good weather, which certainly had paid off. Temple tombs cut into the cliff Kaunos was probably founded as early as …
The original Mercedes rear shocks are too weak to handle the heavy load of the caravan in critical situations. The car tends to waver and totter which makes it difficult to handle. All the tools needed for the replacement of the rear shocks @ Fethiye, Turkey. So we decided to change the shocks to a heavy duty …
Priene and Didyma were two ancient sites from which we didn’t expect too much, but both surprised us. The size of the unfinished temple of Didyma was incredible, and Priene fascinated with its position and easy to recognise street layout. The vegetation gave it an enchanted flair. Temple @ Didyma Dydima was the most important …
Today, the exceptional remains of Ephesus and the town of Selçuk and Kusadasi were to be discovered. We had a splendid day as the weather was much better than the days before, and we could enjoy walking around. Library of Celsus But before we could start our visit at Ephesus, we had to visit a …
The beach near Ephesos was well visited by locals driving up and down on the sand, but not all of them were careful enough and got stuck. Some managed to get out on their own, another one needed some rescue. We had chosen a bay in the dunes to park for the night, so that …
From Troy we were on the way south again and reached Bergama with the ancient Greek city of Pergamon on top of a hill. Temple of Trajan We passed through Bergama which is a modern city. From there, a very steep road leads up the hill to the Akropolis of Pergamon. There is also a …
On the first day of the new year we had crossed the border to Turkey, continued south to Çanakkale and finally reached Troy, the first archaeological site on our route. With the ferry, we had crossed the Dardanelles to Çanakkale, where we managed to get a Turkish SIM Card from Vodafone and Turkish Lira from …
We left Crete by ferry back to Athens and flew home for Christmas. After the holidays, we came back and took the route from Athens to Turkey, where we want to spend the next 2 months. Off to new adventures! Xmas car wash First, our camper got its Xmas wash! It’s always nice when all …
On December 28th 2019 we had arrived back to Athens and were heading to Turkey, turning around at Alanya (our most eastern point so far) about 500 km west of the Syrian Border. We turned inland to go back to Greece, which we crossed to Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo and back to Albania to go …
