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Turkey-Antalya 2006-03 001
A marble building inside a glass building!
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Turkey-Antalya 2006-03 002
A water feature in the main square
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Turkey-Antalya 2006-03 003
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View over Antalya harbour to the Taurus mountains in the background
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Turkey-Antalya 2006-03 006
A minaret in Antalya
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Turkey-Antalya 2006-03 007
A mosque window
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Turkey-Antalya 2006-03 008
Antalya is a weird mixture of modern and old, clean and dirty (but then all cities are like that if you look!)
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Turkey-Antalya 2006-03 009
Antalya old and new
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Turkey-Antalya 2006-03 010
View across Antalya
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Turkey-Antalya 2006-03 011
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Turkey-Antalya 2006-03 012
The Taurus mountains in the background
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Turkey-Antalya(Ataturk) 2006-03 001
Statue in Antalya square of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) -the founder of the Turkish Republic and its first president
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Turkey-Antalya(Ataturk) 2006-03 003
A famous Ataturk quote (1933) "I look to the world with an open heart full of pure feelings and friendship"
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Turkey-Antalya(Ataturk) 2006-03 005
To read more about this fascinating man and how he led his nation to independance, check out www.ataturk.com
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Turkey-Antalya(Ataturk) 2006-03 006
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Turkey-Antalya(YivliMinaret) 2006-06 001
The Yivli minaret - IIRC the cylinders forming the main tower each is supposed to represent one of the 7 philosophers of Turkey, but I might have got this wrong ;-)
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Turkey-Antalya(YivliMinaret) 2006-06 002
Yivli Minaret with Taurus mountains in the background
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Turkey-Antalya(YivliMinaret) 2006-06 003
Yivli minaret again!
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Turkey-Antalya(YivliMinaret) 2006-06 004
Didi's eye view - not quite what I was after, I am not tall enough!
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Turkey-Antalya(YivliMinaret) 2006-06 005
...so Frank took this and this is more like what I was after - thanks dude!
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Turkey-Aperlae 2006-03 002
These next four photos Frank took after our interesting treck through the wildnerness of Aperlae when we eventually came upon a hill fort with Sarcophagi litered around the hillside (about 700 BC) - an eery place it was too!
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Turkey-Aperlae 2006-03 003
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Turkey-Aperlae 2006-03 004
Taken in Aperlae; I would frequently see the same-style sarcophagi littered about the hillsides of the Taurus mountains as we travelled through the Anatolia countryside
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Turkey-Aperlae 2006-03 005
Nice one Frank!
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Turkey-Aperlae 2006-03 001
An inscription on the side of one of the sarcophagi (they were only for important soldiers of course!)
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Turkey-Aquaducts 2006-03 001
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Turkey-Aquaducts 2006-03 002
One of the things that "got" me about Turkey was the amount of archeologically interesting sites about. Although some were officially open to the public, the country (or at least Anatolia) seems to have remnants of ancient times just littered all over the countryside, not managed in any official sense at all. It is almost as if there are so many of them that the government/whoever just can't administer them (other than the "big" ones) in any organised fashion.
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Turkey-Aquaducts 2006-03 003
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Turkey-Aquaducts 2006-03 007
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Turkey-Aspendos 2006-03 001
About Aspendos - hope there isn't some weird copyright about using these types of photos!
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Turkey-Aspendos 2006-03 002
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Turkey-Aspendos 2006-03 003
Entrance to the amphitheatre
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Turkey-Aspendos 2006-03 008
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Turkey-Aspendos 2006-03 012
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Turkey-Aspendos 2006-03 018
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Turkey-Aspendos 2006-03 019
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Turkey-Aspendos 2006-03 021
The steps/seats of the amphitheatre - note the concave grooves beneath each step - they actually realised that if they did this it would assist the acoustics - and this was in about 180 AD!
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Turkey-Aspendos 2006-03 022
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Turkey-Aspendos 2006-03 023
Outside the protective walls of Aspendos
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Turkey-Aspendos 2006-03 024
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Turkey-Cruise 2006-03 001
Way out amongst the various little islands along the coast of south west Turkey we were amused to see this graffiti! They would have had to have done this from a boat!
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Turkey-Cruise 2006-03 002
Note the bottom bit of graffiti - a URL - and as I aimed the camera it dawned on me that much of this graffiti is advertising aimed at the tourists!
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Turkey-Cruise 2006-03 003
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Turkey-Cruise 2006-03 004
A traditional Turkish Gulet - we lived on one of these for three days. I loved it, but it was extremely cramped. However, the worst bit for me was hitting my head on the boom (the bar that runs between the two sail masts) - I came home and a trip to A&E revealed I had spent the rest of the trip (and would spend the first few days back at home) with concussion!
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Turkey-Cruise 2006-03 005
Sat out in the middle of nowhere on a Gulet and who should appear but the ice-cream man (no silly music though) - I am thrilled that I caught his very mediteranean gesticulation on camera!
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Turkey-Cruise 2006-03 006
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Turkey-DudenWaterfall 2006-03 001
Just about managed to catch the rainbow from the waterfall
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Turkey-DudenWaterfall 2006-03 004
Really weird having a beautiful natural phenomena (the waterfall) amidst all the urban sprawl of the Antalya coastline
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Turkey-DudenWaterfall 2006-03 002
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Turkey-DudenWaterfall 2006-03 003
Through the square window of the fence
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Turkey-DudenWaterfall 2006-03 005
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Turkey-DudenWaterfall 2006-03 006
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Turkey-DudenWaterfall 2006-03 009
The top of the waterfall
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Turkey-DudenWaterfall 2006-03 010
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Turkey-DudenWaterfall 2006-03 012
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Turkey-KursunluWaterfall 2006-03 001
Another beautiful waterfall, this time in a national park. Apparently those "Timotei" adverts with the bird washing her hair in the waterfall were filmed here!
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Turkey-KursunluWaterfall 2006-03 002
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Turkey-KursunluWaterfall 2006-03 003
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 001
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 002
This place was amazing (bear in mind I have been to Pompei) - it was amazingly well-preserved and highly atmospheric
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 003
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 004
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 005
I loved the anachronistic juxtaposition (ooer!) of the ancient tower in the foreground versus the very modern pylons in the background
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 006
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 007
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 008
A good excuse to do a perspective shot!
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 009
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 010
View across the site - oh, and there's Frank!
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 011
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 012
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 013
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 014
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 015
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 016
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 017
I was thrilled with these two - I got down real low to the ground to try and get these to look sufficiently menacing
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 018
This is my fave - the altocumulus clouds just make it!
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 019
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 020
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 021
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 022
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 023
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 024
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 025
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Turkey-Perge 2006-03 028
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Turkey-Termessos 2006-03 001
Termessos was an adventure and a half! It involved pretending one was a mountain goat: clambering over boulders and slippery soil up a part of the Taurus mountains. However, a really rich archological feast awaits at the top...
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Turkey-Termessos 2006-03 002
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Turkey-Termessos 2006-03 010
These geezers, the Termessians (C300 BC) even defeated Alexander the Great (333 BC). One of the reasons they managed to stay so self-sufficient (and survive, e.g. a seige) was because they collected water in a number of deep cylindrical reservoirs such as that shown in the photo, so they could survive and grow crops and keep goats (perhaps) up there
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Turkey-Termessos 2006-03 011
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Turkey-Termessos 2006-03 012
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Turkey-Termessos 2006-03 013
This was the crowning glory of Termessos for me - after all the trecking we come across an amphitheatre - high up in the mountains. The photo just can't do this justice - the other side of the rear of the amphitheatre is a deep ravine, and the other side of that, another mountain (as you can see)...
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Turkey-Termessos 2006-03 014
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Turkey-Termessos 2006-03 015
Frank and I sat and soaked up this atmosphere and we imagined how awesome it would be in moonlight (the stone would look silver), and also with geezers with flares up the mountain opposite - when we walked through all the rubble to get here, it was a definite "wow-awesome" moment... It is just a bummer that camera can't capture it - you really need to go!
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Turkey-Termessos 2006-03 016
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Turkey-Termessos 2006-03 017
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Turkey-Termessos 2006-03 018
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Turkey-Ucagiz 2006-03 001
We stayed in Ucagiz on the second-to-last night of being in Turkey (about 200 (IIRC) clicks from Antalya in a very unspoilt coastal location. I woke up on the day we were due to return to Antalya and saw this awesome ship with the morning light just catching it in the right way!
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Turkey-Ucagiz 2006-03 002
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