Relaxing in Ölüdeniz

So today you find Sarah and I in the town of Ölüdeniz, just outside of Fethiye and 3 hours east of Marmaris. Can had to leave us a few days early to head to Mersin, so Sarah and I are on our own here. Since its so much more touristy (all signs in English and an attempt at Turkish is worthless - they just speak back in clear and perfect English) we have had no problems with harassment from creepy guys at all.

We spent one more day in Marmaris - this time on the yacht we had sailed from Bodrum. We sent Can off to the otogar (bus station), checked out of the hotel and dropped our bags off on the boat with plans to go to the beach and leave later that evening. Some friends of the crew who had a boat across the marina were there. One guy was a casino dealer in London who was getting ready to move to Vegas. He was Turkish but had perfect Engish so we told him all about our trip and our school life and our life in İstanbul over coffee. When he and his friends left Sonay, the ship's captain and Yilmas, his friend/crewmate took us for a driven tour of the penninsula of Marmaris. We saw all the small surrounding towns and stopped at Kız Kumu, a beach where a weird sandbar thing stretches out about a kilometer into the bay. So we walked out into the middle of this bay in the Mediterranean... you know... the usual.

Back at the boat they made us a big dinner and then we sat out on the pier eating octopus, a first for me. I did manage to get curry sauce from one of the octopus dishes all over my white tshirt and my one pair of shorts. I think it adds to the sexiness of my outfits a week and a half into the trip (aka they all are gross). Since no one was on the boat we got to sleep in the master bedroom and wake up early to catch a morning bus to Fethiye. Yay for free accomodation!

We're both really exhausted from the weekend so we spent the day on the big lagoon beach/national park that is always depicted on Turkish travel posters. We laid right at the tip of the penninsula (not in those very comfortable looking chairs but on the ground right next to them because they were 5 lira each -- its very annoying to be lying on rocks when there is a perfectly good chair next to you but whatever, money is lowwww). The water was kind of cold at first but I was able to swim for about an hour and lay out on the floating docks they have... ahh beach life.

Tomorrow we set up a 6 hour boat trip that goes around to 6 different places near the city... I'm not sure of them all but I know one place is Butterfly Valley (oooo) and another is some islands Sonay recommeded we check out. And at night we hop a bus to the Antalya area to meet up with friends who are on Spring Break in a really nice hotel. We're going to crash there and then head to Mersin for the final leg of the trip. Wooo travel!

But I'm exhausted and I have a nice clean bed in a little bungalow shack thing that I am very excited for... another big day again tomorrow!