Sorry everyone, but I got too wrapped up with some things in my personal life and didn’t have time to give the fourth and final leg of my incredible journey through the south of turkey: The Butterfly Valley. The only route down into the valley was extremely difficult, hence most of the valley’s visitors go [...]
Turkey’s Azure Coast Part IV: Butterfly Valey
June 25th, 2008
Turkey Beats Czech Republic: Makes it to the quarter final
June 16th, 2008
For those of you that do not know, the European soccer (football) championships is being played right now. After losing to Portugal and barely beating Switzerland (who is terrible), Turkey’s chances of moving on going into their third group stage game. The game was against the Czech republic, and the outcome would be the deciding [...]
Turkey’s Azure Coast Part III: The Lycian Way
June 15th, 2008
Our route along the Lycian way started in Alinca. The plan was to hike 7-8 km to Kabak, stay there one night, then hike 7-8 km Faralya, then hike a long 10-15 km to Ovacik. Faralya is where the beautiful butterfly valley is, which we never made it past. Despite rather short distances, the path [...]
Turkey’s Azure Coast Part II: Finding the trail
June 13th, 2008
Since I was unable to hook up with any climbers, I decided to tag along with David to hike the Lycian Trail. As I said in my previous post, he had just finished his military service in Germany and was touring Turkey. We started by heading from Olympos to Antalya where we intended to do [...]
Turkey’s Azure Coast Part I: Olympos
June 11th, 2008
Well I returned from a fantastic trip in the south of Turkey about ten days ago. I have been a bit slow about writing the entry because I wanted to cover the trip thoroughly. I have tried to include prices where I can so that if someone else is considering a similar trips they can [...]
Music shop street in Galatta
June 5th, 2008
Sorry, I am still outside of Istanbul, so all you get is another picture. In my random wanderings around the city, I found this street near the Galatta Tower. The street seemed to have nothing but music shops with the occasional juice stand. These are the only music shops I have seen, although I haven’t [...]
Pasaj’s (passages) of Istiklal Street
June 2nd, 2008
I am still gone, so here’s another picture from Istanbul. As I said earlier I spend a lot of time on Istiklal Street in Taksim. The street is lined start to finish with buildings built up against each other. Ever so often, there are small streets crossing Istiklal. Equally often there are ‘pasaj’ or passages. [...]
