May Turkey
Turkey 2017. Beldibi
Somewhere in a parallel universe
It was supposed to be another unforgettable trip to the May Carpathians, dotted with dandelions and thick green grass. During the ascent to the Verkhovinsk mountains, the lungs are filled with fresh mountain air, birds chirp around, cows graze. Everything was supposed to turn out that way. But contrary to all the calendars in our universe, at this time in the Carpathians it is zero degrees and it is snowing.
Our reality
It was a working sunny day in Kyiv, my beloved wife called me and said that a trip to the Carpathians for May seems to be covered. It was necessary to urgently decide something while there was an opportunity to cancel train tickets. It is not the most trivial task to take a last-minute tour on May holidays. Yes, and tours for at least 7 nights, and the May weekend will be only three nights. I could take a vacation, but my probationary period has not yet ended, but nevertheless, two vacations have already been agreed before its end, I could somehow work remotely, but I don’t have a laptop. In general, everything was set against us. And only the Larissa Garden hotel believed in us. And he believed so much that for $ 365 for two he was ready to provide us with an all-inclusive for 7 nights. All logic tilted the scales towards the fact that it would not work to fly. And only the price of the hotel seemed to say “You will succeed”. I sit in the office, look at the computer and understand that it is necessary to solve a cloud of issues very urgently. Our colleague Olya, who manages the processes, entered the room. “Olya, I have such a thing here…”
Dasha didn’t even believe that I was approved for remote work. By the evening, absolutely all issues were resolved, and I was sitting at home, already with a configured laptop in my hands, for which special thanks to Lesip. And to our beloved Tasty Travel for a burning tour. Dasha said that in any case, they had not flown anywhere for a long time and it would be time to fly. When I opened the map on my tablet, a notification popped up “Your flight to Budapest will be in 13 days”. Dasha and I looked at each other and laughed. Well, at least we will have time to fly to Kyiv by this time.
Turkey 2017
Our trip to the new tradition begins with a promotional premium lounge area. This time we were waiting for pasta bolognese, mashed corn soup, a lot of all sorts of sweets and an unforgettable dessert. For me it consisted of eight raspberry cakes and five glasses of fine wine. In my mind, I was already on vacation. Dasha preferred Irish whiskey. We had two hours left, and they were just gorgeous. I remember that the sofa seemed unrealistically cozy to me. Boarding announced. Having printed out a map of Cambodia on a free printer, we went on our flight to Antalya.
It was the 99th flight, the shadow of our plane fell on the clouds, wrapped in a circular rainbow. The flight went almost without incident. Except for the case when the flight attendant grabbed a fire extinguisher and leaned towards the cockpit. Of the passengers, probably only I noticed. We arrived in the evening, I always considered it a unique honor if our suitcase on the tape left first. On this trip, we had the opposite honor, he was the last to leave. It felt like we spent an eternity at the airport. But we spent eternity in a transfer minibus, as one of the passengers got on a plane, but did not fly to Antalya. Our valiant guides tried to solve this problem for 2.5 hours, but could not. There were a lot of dissatisfied tourists near the bus. It turned out that not one of the confirmed hotels does not work and everyone is settled in others. Since our hotel was the cheapest in the galaxy, I immediately said that I was ready to enter any five if there were so many who did not want to enter. Next, we had two news. The good thing is that our hotel is also closed, but so-so that the owner has two identical hotels next to each other and they will simply move us into the next one. It was possible to continue to fight for moving into a better hotel, but with such an outcome, it would have been a minus day from the trip, and we already have only three days off. One woman was so reluctant to move into a nearby hotel that she even almost moved into a closed one. We were specially brought to the closed one, they were dropped off and the bus left for the open one))) The hotel that they gave us turned out to be even very bad. A beautiful green area where ripe oranges grow and even bananas ripen. The hotel was positioned as a four, although it was certainly possible to find fault with a lot of things. But for $365 for the May week for two, everything suited us. We arrived around midnight, I went to the reception to immediately clarify that they would make us a late full dinner. The manager smiled good-naturedly and led us to a closed restaurant, where served plates with two side dishes, meat, gravy and greens were waiting for us. “When you have dinner, go to the bar and say that you have just arrived, the bar will work for you. ” The receptionist, smiling good-naturedly with a sense of a good deed done, went back to the lobby. Looking ahead, I’ll say that this was our eighth trip to Turkey, but the first one was for 7 days and was all-inclusive. My opinion about the Turks has grown significantly during the trip. If compared with Egypt, then in tourist Turkey there is no constant fear that they want to deceive you.
Pamukkale
After eating and taking a cocktail, we went to look for a street agency to buy a tour. There was a ROM travel company near the hotel, we took Pamukkale from them for $30. The guy assured us that we would definitely not find such a service as his. In fact, it turned out that way. The alarm clock did not work (and after 4 days the sensor stopped working), we overslept, the bus left. We woke up at the moment when we were supposed to be outside. Within 7 minutes they gathered and ran out into the street. It was not even six in the morning, at the entrance to the hotel there was a guy who sold us a tour. “I meet each of my guests and personally control that they get on the bus! ” He called someone, a car came for us and we caught up with the bus. The guide on the bus, seeing that we went in as a couple, quickly asked one of the tourists to move so that we had two seats side by side. That was really effective! The road was long, the bus could sleep the rest of the early morning. The guide conditionally apologized and said that as part of the advertisement, we should visit two shops along the way. But since the Tez Tour buses and other expensive hotel operators went to these same stores, it became easier for me. An unrealistic scam was going on in the stores with promotions that could only be understood by knowing higher mathematics.
Unfortunately people were led and bought this stuff for very expensive prices. Even despite the fact that around the hotels in tourist places, everything was sold many times cheaper. For example, the wine cellar gave us bottles of unique fruit wine at $33 for 2 bottles. Although near the hotel in tourist shops they were sold for $ 8 - 10 apiece. But for people, as if the word action turns off the logic. One woman first bought an unreal pile of exclusive textiles, and in a gem store, she bought herself a Sultanite, which, according to a guide for only $ 37, is much more shocking than diamonds, with which you will not surprise anyone now. All these shops are really annoying. But Pamukkale is located 3.5 hours from Antalya and I simply can’t imagine how to get there without a car on my own. Finally we got to the legendary Pamukkale. The entrance to the reserve is located far from the baths and the first thing that strikes the eye is the landscapes of poppy fields.
It was hard to take your eyes off the look of the fields. I wanted to take a picture with all the poppies of these endless fields! And each next photo seemed cooler than the previous ones. But we have not yet reached the main why we came. After the poppies, we drove to see the legendary white mountains. They were really white and beautiful, turquoise water even without the sun was a beautiful color. I really had to get used to walking barefoot on all these growths. But oddly enough, the legs quickly got used to it. It was beautiful, but the reflected light was very hard on the eyes. There was a dual moment: it seems that you want to eat everything with your eyes, but at the same moment you want to close them so that you can rest.
There seemed to be a lot of people, but after passing just a couple of levels down, we could already occupy entire pools on our own. At first, the poppy fields seemed to me more beautiful than the white mountains, but when we got to the place where tourists do not go and saw the paintings of untouched baths, I finally fell in love with this area. I dreamed of getting to Pamukkale long before I started traveling. This place has always seemed so mysterious and magical.
Next, we had to return to the poppy fields and reach the high amphitheater. And again photos with poppies, then with an amphitheater and another hundred photos with poppies. I liked the amphitheater, I was struck by its height.
But the poppies… 3 hours flew by… I had to get back on the bus. You could still swim in the Cleopatra pool, just there were already few tourists, but time was up. It is a pity that we did not get there as a savage and were severely limited in time. The way back was hard, but there was no other way. The tour was very exhausting, but still worth it.
Goynuk Canyon
Because I didn't take a vacation for this trip. It was necessary to see everything in three days off. In the morning we jumped into a local minibus and went to the neighboring town of Goynuk. At the entrance to the city, it was necessary to get off the highway and go deeper along the road towards the mountains. It was convenient for us, because two weeks before us, a whole delegation of mother-in-law, my parents and our Mishka rested here.
And the route to the canyon was already well laid out. We really tried to modify it in several places. In the first case, we ate a giant mulberry, and in the second, we simply lengthened our path. Entrance to the reserve costs 7 lire ($2). The first thing that awaited us was the cascades of blue lakes.
The lakes overflowed into each other and beckoned to them. At one of the lakes, we noticed the entrance to a low cave.
Half-bending, we went 50 meters deep into the rock. It's good that mobile phones have flashlights. I kept waiting for us to run into bats, but there was bad luck. After the cave, we went up into the mountains. Having passed insanely beautiful landscapes, we got to the canyon itself. The mountain river was 14 degrees. Having deposited all our money and valuables with some Briton, we rented wetsuits from him for $ 13 and continued the route by swimming.
The cold was so cruel that my hands ached with pain. But then we make the real canyoning. Even despite the fact that two years ago they vowed not to participate in this anymore. This canyoning lasted 7.5 hours less than the one we got two years ago, but nevertheless, even half an hour spent in the canyon left its charm on this trip. Here it was certainly easier not to dive headlong into the waterfall and climb in the dark. It was more civil here. Although climbing was also where. Having got out into the heat, we dried and basked in the May sun. Then there was a sandwich snack over the cliff of the mountain. Dasha packed sandwiches for us at the hotel for breakfast. My bunny will always take care of us.
Another hour and a half on foot back, and we are back on the track. On the way we came across tired tourists. Tourists were motivated by the fact that we reached the canyon, which means they will reach it.
On the way, at one of the restaurants of a certain Ali, a sign “2 glasses of fresh juice for a dollar” hung. After drinking eight glasses of the most excellent fresh juice, we were ready to continue to perform feats. Go to Antalya!
Antalya
We still had half a day left. We were not sure that the minibus would definitely stop in the middle of the road, so we hitchhiked the car with extraordinary ease. The guy also went to Antalya and spoke only Turkish. This is where our conversation ended. Since the guy liked to smoke in the car, he had to shake the ashes off the seats. We arrived quickly and with a breeze. The guy refused the money, showing with a gesture that he was pleased to help us.
To be honest, I didn't expect Turks to be so cute. And even in the hotel, they disposed to themselves. The guy dropped us off four kilometers from the old town. These were the little things for walking. Although we have been going somewhere for half a day without stopping) We have already been in this city a couple of years ago. Then we had only one hour. Then Antalya seemed just cool. This time it seemed to us on a par with Istanbul in beauty.
It was worth going a little deeper into the cozy streets of the old city, as you begin to soak up the charm of the old city. There was a desire to walk absolutely along all the streets. And look at all the cafes. It's like a mixture of the best moments of Gdansk and Istanbul. And having reached the edge of the city, it seems to open up for tourists in a new look. Now it is a cliff above the azure Mediterranean Sea, the sunset illuminates walking travelers and couples in love sitting on a bench. Hey, is that two girls sitting there?? ? No, it seemed. A wonderful end to a wonderful day!
Phacelis
It was the last non-working day of our trip. In any case, I, Dasha, were waiting for well-deserved sunny beaches. Early in the morning we went towards Kemer, loaded up with delicious ice cream and drove even further. In the canyon, we came across tourists who advised us to take a hiking trail to Phaselis through bays and mountains. Now we will test it. We had to get out on the road near the tunnel. Seeing the tunnel, I asked the driver to stop, he let me out. Then I realized that this is not quite the tunnel that the tourists were talking about. But to our great happiness, the tunnel we needed turned out to be 10 meters away. At first the road was wooded and flat. The weather for the trip was comfortable - every half hour the sky completely covered and cleared up to blue.
Having reached the first bay, we had to wait about 15 minutes until the sky turned blue, so that the water would acquire a beautiful color. Then the road led radically into the mountains through steep cliffs. At first, there were even route marks so as not to get lost. But even the marks did not save from wandering. Sometimes a complete wandering through the impenetrable thickets began, from time to time getting out to look at the beauty of the sea from a height. Soon we even wandered to the tombs. From time to time we came across two travelers who, like us, were looking for a way. It was funny. We got to Phaselis a bit late, the city was already destroyed! We wandered through the ruins and had a real picnic on the bench! At the exit, it turned out that from the official entrance I would have had to unfasten 20 lira ($ 5) each. From the exit from the reserve there is a minibus directly to Kemer. At the central station, we changed to another minibus and went to the outskirts of the city to the Aslanbuchak area.
The Macedonian Bridge
In the minibus, we met guys who decided to climb around, probably, the whole of Turkey on foot. They suggested us a useful modification of the further route. Initially, we planned to walk only to the bridge. The road to the bridge was so picturesque and beautiful that Phaselis completely died out against the background of such beauties. Well, it's very beautiful. We walked with the guys, and they told us stories about their dangerous journeys. About how they had encounters with wolves, wild boars and even docking with the mafia. And I thought we had an extreme trip to central India. Having reached the bridge, we found a cafe with a very cozy mountain lake and a waterfall.
I could not miss such beauty and ran to swim. The water was, as it were, tonic. But how beautiful it was. It was about half a day behind and the legs were already a little tense from the route. But you can't get away from beauty, and we started a long climb high into the mountains. According to these guys, there is a glorious village
Gendelme
There were two problems: It is not known how far to go, since the village is not on the map, and we completely forgot its name. Something told us that we would not get dinner at the hotel. Yes, and at dinner for three days have never been yet. The right decision was to hitchhike the car. A hot Turkish grandfather and his young future wife from Russia were just on their way to a barbecue in a restaurant. The restaurant was, unfortunately, only a kilometer away from us, but his companion insisted that he throw us higher. They dropped us off after five kilometers at the fork. There was an explanation sign in Turkish at the fork.
Offline translator from Google said that it only translates with the Internet. Having stopped another car, we tried to find out where we needed to go, but we ourselves, in principle, do not know exactly where. There were two signs, there must be a cave and a tree. Nobody spoke English in the mountains. The guys from the car just nodded in the affirmative to all our questions and left. In the distance, we spotted a guy watering the garden. I ran to the guy to play crocodile. I showed him an elegant and beautiful tree, gracefully playing with its leaves in the sun. The guy silently looked at me and in response depicted a hefty cave!
This is what we agreed on in gestures. I nodded my head inquiringly, he pointed to which road to go and said: “Gendelme! ”. Exactly! This is the city that we were looking for (you need to go along the left road if you are facing the fork). The town was very close to us. Having bought juice from sour cherries, we were ready to explore the city. But how can you find everything here? A local girl told us that Maara is over there. Luckily Maara turned out to be a cave. Around already everywhere there were signs about a half-kilometer deep cave. Not far from the entrance, some leftist grandfather appeared, demanding money. It didn't look like the grandfather was a cave worker. At least he didn't have any tickets.
Frostbite from the grandfather, we began the descent. There was one nuance, since in the morning we did not even suspect the existence of the cave, then mobile phones with a built-in flashlight were left at the hotel. The darkness was complete. They illuminated the road with a red autofocus from the camera. The depth of 500 meters was exaggerated by 480 meters. So, the descent took no more than two minutes. But it turned out very mysterious. Outside, clean mountain air was waiting for us again and the singing of mosques carried far over the mountains. It didn't take long to find the tree. The tree is very, very old, it is more than one hundred years old already.
I don't know how old it is, because it's a non-googleable town. But the size of the tree is impressive. Not far from the tree are the walls of a ruined castle. Even climbed a little there. But thickets there have already completely occupied the territory. We started our long descent from the mountains. At first, they even offered us two cars to give us a lift. But now we were in no hurry and we could safely go down. We highly recommend this beautiful route. Soon we met the guys that he was advised to us. They decided to master the route on their two. Our way back was through a Byzantine village. But there weren't too many Byzantines there. Judging by the missing piece near the cactus, someone very hungry recently passed through here. It was already quite evening, but the trail did not want to end at all. Forces began to leave. Until the end of dinner at the hotel remained about an hour. And we have not even reached the interchange Kemer. It was the third day on my feet from the distance traveled, I already began to rejoice that tomorrow is a working day, and not a walking day) Fatigue was so raking, it seemed that we would simply fall down among this beauty. At the last kilometer, we were picked up by a private minibus that was carrying local guys who were descending the canyon. We were dropped off at the bus stop in the Aslanbuchak district, and there it became clear that the regular minibus to the center might no longer go. Walk to the center of Kemer about five kilometers. A luxury car was driving down the road. The hand twitched to hitchhike. Two travelers from Moscow were just on their way to a hotel in the center of Kemer. Upon learning that we are from the town of Beldibi. They said they would gladly take us there. We arrived with a breeze. 15 minutes before the end of dinner.
Everyday life in All Inclusive style
The May holidays are over, the working week has begun. Since Wi-Fi caught only in the lobby, I had to slightly remake the lobby into a work office. A small rearrangement of furniture closer to the sockets. A little stretch of cables back and forth, a cable with a cipher, setting up a vpn channel. I'm fully prepared! Although no, a couple more cocktails and the workplace is staffed. Fortunately, the channel was stable enough for comfortable work. At this time, Dasha began the beach-passive part of the holiday. Working in the lobby, I lived like in a parallel world. Watching the work of the reception all day long, listening to people's problems or wishes. What do people generally do in the lobby. I only strained for one moment, constantly listening to how hotel guides swindle gullible tourists for money, intimidating worse than in modern thrillers in order to sell an expensive excursion or jewelry made of pseudo-precious stone. And the most annoying thing is that people go for it in batches and overpay several times in order to receive exactly the same services that they would have received by buying a tour on the street. Life around me was in full swing. It was possible to set up a fast-paced camera and watch me sit still, and the scenes of life in the lobby change very quickly around me. I even became a local hero in the eyes of elderly tourists who came to rest. “Lena, don’t you know yet? This is our Andrey, he is a hero, he set everything up for us! ” The Internet worked perfectly not only for me, but for everyone who contacted me. It was comfortable to work. True, I forgot to take a headset from Kyiv, but the issue was easily resolved by the very first souvenir shop.
My bunny brought it to me right for the video conference. After three days of work, I got very used to my new “office” and was ready to work for another week. And so the eight-hour day is over. Without wasting a second, like in the maintenance of a racing car, I quickly closed my workplace. All cables, cable, quickly into the room, the laptop is locked. Get outside quickly, whoop! And we rush in the minibus to continue our journey.
Mountain near Goynuk
Sometimes in the city there was a sign that a certain Ali took care of and paved the route to the mountain with a wonderful panorama, and he is also waiting for everyone for garlic bread in his restaurant. So we went to test his route. We got off at the entrance to the city, already on the road familiar to us. The inscription on the stone said about a beautiful panorama and warned not to smoke, so as not to burn. We liked the climb. Trees with unusually red trunks grew everywhere.
From time to time, there were signs praising how Ali does everything so well. The mood really lifted when we found another sign. The ascent took less than an hour and was fairly easy. At the top, a truly stunning panorama with a bench awaited us. On the way down we, having read “About the exploits of a certain Ali”, we decided to go to his restaurant and drink two fresh juices for a dollar again. The restaurant was closed! But another grandfather quickly entered our position and lowered his prices. Even downstairs we met tourists with whom we crossed paths yesterday in Gendelma. Just exchanged impressions about yesterday. Since it was getting close to night, we had to return to the hotel.
After dinner, we went to see what and how in other hotels of our chain. We started from the hotel we were originally supposed to go to. The hotel, as for me, was really simpler than the one in which we were eventually settled. On the way to the next hotel, we noticed a black cat crossing our path. Everything would be fine, but a crowd of tourists coming to meet us stopped and, looking in our direction, began to discuss something. Grandma and grandpa, who were going to meet us, turned around and went back. That is, those guys are waiting for us to cross the black line first. We stopped, and I defiantly folded my arms across my chest and turned around halfway. The guys in response took even more free poses, as if they were fine on the other side. In response, Dasha and I defiantly sat down on the side of the road, proudly raising our noses up. The battle could have continued. But from the side of the guys there were four girls who did not know anything about the cat. The boys began to slowly follow them. Dasha and I also began to smoothly go to meet them. When the girls first crossed the imaginary line, the guy loudly told us: “The path is clear! ” After exchanging laughter, we went our separate ways.
Some hotels looked quite luxurious, some had water parks that were not inferior to water park complexes. But as soon as we remembered the cost of our tour at $ 365 for two, it immediately became joyful, as we stopped by successfully. By the way, we also fit clearly between two rainy weeks into an almost sunny one.
The next day, during my working day, there was a small climactic event. On one of the streets of our hotel, the cleaner ran into a snake and a real battle began. It’s a pity the fakir wasn’t around, if only there were torches of fire and it would have been a great show. That evening, in order not to limit ourselves to dinner time, we decided to skip it and went on a long evening trip to Antalya.
Evening Antalya
This time it was quite serious. We got a card for travel in Antalya transport and now we could easily move around the city. There is just one caveat. Minibuses from Kemer stop far from the old city and it is necessary to make the correct transfer to the 6th or 8th number. Fortunately, you can buy the card directly from the bus driver. There was a large shopping center with a food court at the transplant. The food court sold most of the same dishes that we had at the hotel for dinner. Except for one, my favorite Iskander Kebab! How I love this yummy.
This time we drove into the old city from the other side and discovered completely new beauties of the city.
These were pedestrian multi-level roads crossing small cascading parks with waterfalls. It's very beautiful.
Among the city, it's like paradise! On one of the levels of the waterfall, in the most picturesque place, someone's socks were hanging. A group of Turkish guys, seeing how we look at socks, immediately began to make excuses in front of us and demonstrate that they were all in their socks. One guy never showed up. I insisted that for some reason one of their friends was hiding the robes of his legs.
But here's a failure, he's also wearing socks. And then one of the guys notices something - I'm without socks! Everyone started laughing and looking at me suspiciously. Here is such a sock-entertaining story that happened to us. “Enjoy Antalya! ” - the guys said goodbye to us. Oh how cozy it is here. Antalya, like Istanbul, is a city of cats. Cats are everywhere.
And some pretty marvelous forms. We even saw a cat hovering over a tree trunk.
Apparently it was a disabled cat. Having bought 0.5 orange fresh, we went to the port. Beautiful lighting was turned on everywhere.
There was a lighthouse on the breakwater in the port. Along the entire breakwater, local guys and tourists were relaxing. Everyone, as if in some kind of abstraction, sat lazily and cooed with each other.
This was our third visit to Antalya and I want to say that all three times it was completely different. Dasha and I highly recommend this city, almost the same as the legendary Istanbul. We got to the hotel without incident by regular buses.
I was pleased with the stop, equipped with two luxurious easy chairs.
Beldibi beaches
Secret Beach
On the third working day, I came to the conclusion that it is still worth checking out not only in mountain rivers and lakes, but also in the sea. There was a secret beach a kilometer away from us. We were told about it by one of the tourists on the way to the canyon. We followed the instructions. At first, we walked along the pebbles for about a kilometer towards the mountain, to the end of the line of hotel beaches. Then we crawled through a gap between two rocks. Then we had to climb a little on the rocks. Having descended to the ground, we found ourselves on a deserted, inconspicuous beach with the same pebbles. Something is wrong, we must be missing something. It seems that the girl said that it was necessary to overcome something else on the water. To our left was a high rock, against which the surf beat strongly. Theoretically, you can try to swim along the cliff and see what's behind it. To my great surprise, there was a really beautiful small beach behind it. To even greater surprise, there were already 15 people there, moreover, with things. How did they do it? ! It turned out that there is still quite an interesting path on top of this beach. Through an abandoned transport tunnel. In general, it's cool to discover such unusual places.
Night hike
After dinner, we had a night hike towards the entrance to the city. In impenetrable darkness, we climbed onto some abandoned roads. To the left of the road is a mountain and a dark forest. Headlights. A car is driving towards us on an abandoned road. I wonder what they forgot on the blocked concrete road. Probably, now something illegal will happen and, at best, does not concern us. The car stopped not far from us. Four dark figures stepped out of the machine room. What will happen next, did they see us or not? The figures unhurriedly became in a strict line, peed, got into the car and left. Pretty unexpected twist. We went even further along the abandoned road. Soon we came across another car with its headlights off. In the darkness, we made out a man who was looking at us and a girl who was smoking on her haunches. Then there were concrete fences, we did not climb them. After all, we still have a whole unexplored night track behind us. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed how something ran up to the tree from the side of the mountain and hid. The darkness was very thick. The time was nearing midnight. Without taking our eyes off that tree, we went to the track. The track did not spoil us with beauty for a long time, and the walking part soon broke off. In the direction of our hotel, we had to make our way through a dense forest. Well, of course there were paths, but there were thickets on the sides. One thing bothered me. I couldn't remember if there were "Shanghai Leopards" or "Bengal Tigers" in these parts. Having got out of the forest, we met with a group of local guys who were disapprovingly silent. Step by step, and we got to the hotel. The night trip, as they say, “With a twinkle” was.
Old roads of the Kemeri region
It was our last day. Our flight is in the evening, so you can still make a full-fledged outing. There are legends about a certain Beldibi cave. But no one knows the exact information about her whereabouts. On the Internet, all the facts contradict each other. As a result, we found a blog of some guys who spent a lot of time to find out that the cave does not exist in Beldibi.
Thanks to their blog, we have laid out a scenic route for ourselves. To get from Antalya to our city of Beldibi, you need to pass through three relatively new tunnels. But there are also abandoned serpentine roads, one of which we climbed in the middle of the night. It was on these roads that we set off. Having reached the first tunnel from Beldibi, we turned onto the old road. The route turned out to be long and very picturesque, even with access to the beaches. Vodichka was the most beautiful when you look from a height. We also passed by some beautiful territory surrounded by barbed wire. From time to time, loopholes came across the prickly fence. And the further you go there are more of these loopholes. At the very end of the fence there was a hole in human height, for those who decided at the last moment. We still did not begin to find out what is so guarded there. During the day, it’s somehow not extreme to do this. The route took several scenic hours. It was our first Turkey in this format, and we really, really liked it. I would gladly extend the trip. I didn't want to fly away. On this trip, we were waiting for the hundredth anniversary flight! We did it!
In the morning I went to work in the Kyiv office itself. In the morning, the traditional planning for the week. Our Scrum Master started a rally “So let's evaluate what we have in terms of resources. Let's see who's on vacation this week. Yeah, Andrey's vacation starts on Wednesday! Everyone looked at me with suspicion, and someone even asked “How again? )))”. What am I, I haven’t been on vacation for a long time, this is actually my first vacation in the last three months)))
Trip Information
Date of travel: 05/06/2017 – 05/13/2017
Hotel: Larissa Beldibe
Duration: 7 nights (Beldibi)
Tour agency in Kyiv: Tasty Travel
Operator: TPG (normal)
Tour type: Full package - insurance, flight, transfers, hotel, all inclusive
Excursions: Pamukkale, the rest yourself
Purchasing a ticket: 2 days in advance
