Olympos has kind of a backpacker camp, we stayed in a little cabin room. There was a rocky beach, with ruins all behind it.
At night we hiked up to the Chimaera, where gas comes out of the earth and lights on fire. Kind of like lighting farts...but constant. There are a bunch of them.
Kaş is a beautiful town on the Mediterranean, where we went kayaking over the 'sunken city' of Kekova, ancient ruins that have sunk into the sea as a result of earthquakes. You can see rubble under the beautiful clear water, and ruins on the shore of the island.
In the rocky cliffs above town there are Lycian tombs carved into the rock.
I love swimming in the Mediterranean! It's the perfect temperature. We went to one great sandy beach, at Patara, where it's shallow so easy to swim out past the breaking waves and body surf on them, or bob around behind them. Here I am off a rocky beach, a hotel/restaurant had beds & umbrellas to lie on and a ladder down to the water. This is my fourth time in the water that day, wonderful!
All of the great sculptures from Ephesus were at the museum. Some of it is incredibly well preserved.
Fake sculptor (not a hard job). They had a hilariously cheesy little 5-minute show for the tourists, hosted by some cruises that were there at the time.
Gladiators!
Guys playing fake trumpets to recorded music. They were giggling at the performance.
You can do some shopping before sightseeing, including for genuine fake watches!
It was packed with tourists, lots of tour groups.
So packed that it's hard to get a picture without some random girl in it :-)
