So we made it to Dalyan and we're actually doing Daylan tekne cooperative,
it is a smaller boat company here in Dalyan and you get to see all the great hot spots
that you would normally see from Fethiye or Marmaris for actually much cheaper there
it's about 250 Turkish Liras for a boat tour and just 50 lira for a 7 hour boat tour,
up and down the river including lunch, but it's about to take off so we're gonna go jump on
This is actually different than the boat tours that I've been to, this one is stopping by
all the places that we would like to visit for touristic purposes rather than just stopping for swimming purposes
right now we're on the way to our mud bath, and we're so excited about it!
Right behind us you see the mud baths and the thermal pools. It's actually impossible or
almost impossible to drive here. So the best way to pretty much come to this mud bath is by doing it
on a boat tour for the day so it's 15 Turkish lira to get into the mud baths here
Are you ready to get mud?
Who's ever ready to get mud? I suppose so!
All right, let's go here! It feels so weird to walk in this! It's super slippery!
Oh my God!
I'm so afraid to fall!
As we go further in it's like harder and harder we're like getting to like the
thicker mud because people don't come over this way!
They said don't put too much on it.
Okay!
Otherwise it's not going to wash off...
Gokce never listens!
I do listen! I'm going to make you an Iron Man!
Now, time for the face!
You look amazing!
I'm like stuck to the ground!
Look at that handsome!
He's like a sculpture...
He is the Mudman!
Mud on it's getting hard to talk actually, it's starting to crack, but mud is of course,
very good for your skin, so letting it set in and hopefully purifying our skin because
of coronavirus the numbers are kept very low, it's very easy to social distance here
and keeping clean. Getting good for our skin and I'm gonna go shower it off
so I could talk a little bit better...
Steve didn't get everything off, so he's gonna go underwater again!
In thermal pool now and Gokce can't even touch the floor because it's 1.7 meters deep
deeper than she is tall!
But the thermal pool also has good healing properties for your skin
so we're enjoying this really quickly before we have to dry up and head back to our boat
We're in the thick of it now, definitely can reach out and touch them on this boat
We made it to lunch, the first two stops were of course the mud bath
and then we stopped at a lake really quickly to swim if you wanted to,
the lunch that comes included actually this is the appetizer right here is it's salad and everything
like that and then they bring out a fish main course and you could of course order drinks extra.
Really cool so far, this is lunch on like a restaurant on an island in the middle of Dalyan
Like I said appetizer, main course, it's hard to believe how much food you get, it's really a great deal
I think it's 75 lira during the on season, but we're here in September
dropped it down to 50 lira is getting an amazing deal down here in Dalyan from the food so far
very damn good!
Lunch is over, back to the boat! and we have tea!
Chai!
Apparently, the whole thing (river) is 68 kilometers and that very boat you could actually drive this whole place with it
and it takes you from island to island by ferry board it's like 20 something lira
it's maybe by island I'm not sure but either way it's a really good price to go from island nightly by driving a car
So, right behind us is the ancient city of Kuanos, and if it looks similar to Petra and
and the treasury in Jordan, there's a reason for that!
the Carian and Lycian civilizations are very similar and the cool thing is actually
that the kings of Kuanos were buried with their gold in their mouth they were also buried with their slaves
they believed that the richer they were, the better chance that they had of getting into heaven
they didn't get in right away they would actually pay their way with their gold that they had in their mouth
which is kind of creepy and kind of cool at the same time
So the end of our boat tour is a bit of a choose your own adventure
We could either stay here at Iztuzu beach, which is the Turtle Beach here in Turkey
the famous Turtle Beach or we could go back and see the ancient city of Kuanos with our boat tour
they give you a free pass to take the public boat ferry back to the start area that lasts up until 6 pm is the last boat that
you can take back, so you can wind up getting here at 3:30pm like we did and then stay for two and a half hours
You know, we saw Ephesus, and we're a little bit spoiled for ancient cities now after that
so we might just explore the beach and help you find a SEA TURTLE!
If you want to come here by yourself, you can take a boat from Dalyan
it's like a shuttle to come here for 20 liras and there are beach palapals when you get here you pay 25 Liras per person
if you don't want to sit there and sit at a cafe like this there's a food area
one thing I find very interesting though, they do not sell alcohol and if you really want to have beer
you have to go back to a boat and buy it from the captain and then come back to the beach to drink it
or probably you have to bring it in yourself!
We haven't seen any turtles yet but they said they're around here nestling, so it's really
exciting to see some of their footprints right on the sand and of course it's not easy to see them
during the day because they come out at night, so the beach is for humans during the day and
for them at nights. They actually have a lot of signs over here to make sure that you're not digging
your feet in it or you're not doing anything to hurt their nestles so we're just very carefully
walking around walking is allowed!
We made it to the one end of turtle beach, it's a four kilometer sand split here on the Southern Aegean coast of Turkey
Everything is so just natural, no development at all, it's more like an ocean than an actual like sea
where it's calm the waves but we really loved it here and it's such a great way to cap off our boat tour here in Dalyan.
It turns out the public boat just to Turtle Beach is actually 25 Turkish Liras now
so for 25 Liras more we got a whole boat tour taking us everywhere, and then we got the free boat pass
to take the public boat back from turtle beach just for being on the boat tour.
It's a fantastic day, and right now we found this restaurant called Kordon, actually our tour guide suggested here
If you've ever wanted to have dinner overlooking the treasury in Petra and Jordan this is about as
close as you get the Kuanos kingdoms are basically little versions of that, so we're very lucky
the sunset's amazing, the boat tour was amazing and I'm thankful that Gokce has decided to be a tourist
in her own country and show Turkey!
We didn't have so much choice, but I'm very happy that this happened actually!
everything happens for a reason is definitely justified with this beautiful view!
just like this day cannot get any better!
I hope our day gets a little bit better! But in the meantime
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Iyi aksamlar!
Gokce, what are you about to do?
I dont know!!