И снова Турция!!! Хотя другая... And again Turkey! Although the other...

Although we have been to Turkey many times, we decided not to refuse the opportunity to visit the Blue Lagoon, and the hotel offer was good, so on September 26 we flew from Boryspil to Dalaman with a clear plan of where to go and what to see. Departure in the morning, from the airport to the hotel about an hour's drive, so around 9 am we were already at the hotel. The hotel itself is in Greek style, located on a mountain, in a coniferous forest, quite green, 3.5 km from the beach. The check-in happened earlier and at about 12 o'clock we received the keys to the room. The room is tired, clearly in need of cosmetic repairs, the food is good, quite tasty dishes, especially those cooked on the grill, juices and coffee, of course, leave much to be desired, in principle, there is no service, the staff is friendly. The contingent is mostly 70% of the British, everything is oriented for them, even the prices are in pounds, in the evenings there are standard animation programs. Well, there’s nothing more to write about the hotel, I’d better share my impressions of where they were and what they saw. So, for comfortable movement in the local rental car "Optimus" a wonderful Citroen C4 was booked in advance, which the representative of the company drove right to the entrance to the hotel. The first stop was a visit to the village of Kayakoy, which is more like a museum, consisting of hundreds of ruins with two Greek churches, and really looks like a ghost. Next - Fethiye, a cozy town, with a beautiful promenade, but a terribly dirty city beach (by the way, on this coast all the beaches are municipal, a set of umbrella + 2 sun loungers - 21 lira). Further, located 50 km east of Fethiye, the incomparable "Turkish" St. Tropez - Kalkan with its narrow streets and overhanging balconies twined with bougainvilleas (oh, that's something! ), Cute cafes and the cleanest city beach. Also, 6 km from Kalkan is one of the most picturesque beaches of the Lycian coast, and maybe the whole of Turkey, Kaputas, with soft golden sand (it somehow reminded me of Devil's Harbor in Crete). Continuing along the national highway D400, along the rocks, we get to Kas, also very colorful and not at all "Turkish", I would say more "Italian", a town with wonderful beaches-platforms. By the way, you can see the Greek island of Kastellorizo ​ ​ from Kas! A 20-minute drive east of Kalkan is Patara, where St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was born, also in Patara there is a beautiful temple of Apollo, where archaeological excavations are still being carried out (reminiscent of Ephesus) and, of course, the beach is sandy, stretching for many kilometers, in general landscape, as in the Egyptian desert. We also drove to the Saklikent gorge, looked at the waterfall and drove on. Well, in order to diversify the program a little, we took an excursion to 6 islands with a visit to the “valley of butterflies, the “aquarium” bay, where the water is of an unusual azure color and several more islands of the Aegean Sea. On the penultimate day we went to the Blue Lagoon and I agree with the opinion of those tourists who considers that Oludeniz looks more convincing from a paragliding height. Summarizing, I would like to note once again that Turkey is a wonderful, comfortable country where it is pleasant to relax in all respects!