Olympos

We returned to Istanbul for one night before jumping on an overnight bus South to Olympos. We arrived the next day at about lunchtime to this lazy beachside town. This place has an atmosphere and general feel about it similar to somewhere like Hamelin Bay or Gracetown. There is just one main road down to the beach lined with all the accommodation parks and outdoor restaurants. Most of the accommodation consists of wooden style chalet setup (called treehouses) and the restaurants and lounge areas are peppered with shoeless low riding couch bungalow jobbies. Very relaxing place as you can imagine and see in the pics. The road down and surrounds of the beach are full of ancient ruins and the oceanside itself is pebble based with very clear, calm, blue conditions.

rolling out a Goz

 

After a lazy afternoon and night watching live AFL and playing cards in the bungalows we got active the next mooring and went kayaking along the coast. A very beautiful smooth coast lined with high cliffs made for a lovely couple of hours. We were starving afterwards and enjoyed one of several gozleme's (pancake/pastry folded and filled with cheese, meats and spinach) that the town restaurants produced. These were the culinary highlight of the area along with the twister ice creams that I fell in deep, addictive love with. On our last day here we waited around for the friendly faces of Sarah and Pete (work friends from home) to arrive. They eventually did and we introduced them to both the beach and gozleme's.