Till next time :)

Ok, best beach ever! Past tremendous ruins, a ban on development keeps the surrounding area absolutely undeveloped.

A hot, quick visit to what once was the capital of the Lycian coast.

There's a huge crack between two mountains and we hiked a long way in through freezing cold water. Beautiful rock formations carved out of marble and other materials gives Utah a run for its money. Hard to capture the scale here...

Then tea on the river, literally, with the hippies.

The prison where he suffered is now a Four Seasons hotel!

Half museum, half arboretum. And a comfy coach for the boys.

The fruit is plentiful and straight from the trees. Ok, vines, but fresh!

It's hard to capture in photos, but these caves are cut out of the rock, underground, and can hold ~20,000 people. They lived here for a couple hundred years, hiding in the barren desert. Well, underneath the barren desert. It's pretty insane,and no one knows how big the city is, but it goes down 120 meters and the tunnels go on and on. Houses, churches, grave sites, wells, wineries, you get the picture. Look up underground cities, Turkey in Wikipedia and don't faint. It's amazing.

They were persecuted and run out of town. They found these amazing stone formations were easily hollowed out, creating rooms, stairs, churches. You know...second home kind of things. Extraordinary structures and some sadly graffitied frescos.