Ponedeljak, Decembar 23, 2013
Road Trip to Ephesus
The first time travel were now on the program: The plan was as follows : first with all students on Fridays to Ephesus and Kusadasi, then by the Portuguese ( I alone among four Portuguese! ) Continue to Pamukkale and Marmaris.
Instead of going to Ephesus we drove to a village, which formerly belonged to Greece and therefore looked on the architecture as well. It was really cute. We ate on a roof terrace, which was covered with cushions, found peppers, dried in bowls in the sun and found signs on the bazaar that promised us“Genuine Fake Watches". Then it went to Kusadasi. Very popular among tourists and probably really only among them. The beaches were small, the restaurants expensive and above all: The whole thing did not look nice.
So get away from there! We wanted to ask a taxi driver to tell us the way to the bus terminal. In Turkey overland trips are experienced mainly in the bus. A very special kind of travel that yes but is rather uncommon in Germany. However, the taxi driver offered us to drive us completely to Pamukkale. No idea how far he has thought about it, but eventually he drove us for 160 TL to the hostel. It was a three hour drive! In addition, he invited us to another on a Çay. I also looked at times Ferry Dublin Holyhead.
So we arrived in the evening at the hostel. There we ate... but in comparison to all other vertices, where you can eat, it was nevertheless expensive. Then the son of the family, who also works there suddenly brings out a guitar when Daniel said that he would like to have a here. Now we only sat at the table and sang and played songs and then we went to a lake at the foot of the Pamukkale terraces ( which does not quite fit into the picture of the landscape ) and sang on there, later we saw some times Ferry Cairnryan Larne offers.
The next day sightseeing. The join network drive to the South Gate of Pamukkale us. We land at the ancient Byzantine city of Hierapolis. This was destroyed by an earthquake, the ruins can still be seen today. We had insane luck with the weather. The city was beautiful in its own way. And the white terraces with their hot water glistened in the sun. It was indescribable. We were all speechless. Some places you can not describe. Some places you have to have just seen, similar to the last times Ferry Cairnryan Belfast trip.
But then : A storm moved. We were indeed in the mountains, on a high plateau. We finally gave up and fled in a museum. And left Pamukkale then by the barefoot Kalkterassen ran down.
We then into a gift shop to buy postcards. And for some reason have in this area a very ugly mascot. A small brown male with a giant penis. So now we bought postcards and after I had paid, I threw my towel sweeping over my shoulder. And... meet the magnet behind me.
