{"id":2143,"date":"2014-08-13T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2014-08-13T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T15:25:10","slug":"dalyan-delta-and-lycian-tombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Dalyan Delta and Lycian Tombs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ilyas Kaplan from Sanem Tourizm took us on our very own boat, from Ekcinik Koyu, to the Dalyan Delta. \u00a0Ilyas dropped us off for a tractor ride up to Caunos, after our walk through the ruins, he collected us and we went on to the town of Dalyan for lunch and a visit to the market.<\/p>\n

\"Boating<\/a>
Boating through the reeds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am sure Dalyan is a lovely town nine months of the year but in the heat of August, we strolled rather languidly around the ‘market’, which was tourist trap central. We thought it better to spend our time eating mezes in a waterfront cafe. Actas. While watching all the river boats, we considered going to the thermal baths with the other thousands of tourists that were now pouring in from the Lake and even on tours by road or boat from Marmaris, Gocek and Fetiyhe, but the sheer numbers kept us in the restaurant with baklava.<\/p>\n

\"Big<\/a>
Big Flag, Frosty, wouldn’t you say?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From Actas Restaurant, the Lycian Tombs were directly above us. \u00a0The Lycian Tombs were tombs created high on the cliff with an edifice that looked like a temple, a house or a pigeon hole. Ilyas said the large temple tombs were known to be the tomb of a Prince but it seems all the Lycians were practitioners of ancestor worship. The tombs are amazing, such a romantic setting which set our imaginations racing.<\/p>\n

\"Lycian<\/a>
Lycian Tombs, Dalyan – Temple tombs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pigeon<\/a>
Pigeon Hole Tombs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We boarded the river boat once more and headed back down to the Turtle area, where we collected our freshly cooked crab for a return trip snack and then off to the sand bar for a swim.<\/p>\n

\"Turtle<\/a>
Turtle feeding station in the morning, selling crab in the afternoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the morning’s almost deserted journey, now there were hundreds of people at the sand bar beach.<\/p>\n

\"Sand<\/a>
Sand Bar Beach Party near Turtle Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Returning<\/a>
Returning to Ekincik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now this story has been in two parts, most people would have gone back to their boat and had a quiet little drink. \u00a0We all know Blue though, we went to dinner and Blue asked how something was cooked and before you know, he is there offering advice to the chef. \u00a0They just told him to cook it.<\/p>\n

\"Ekincik<\/a>
Ekincik Celebrity Chef<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Ilyas Kaplan from Sanem Tourizm took us on our very own boat, from Ekcinik Koyu, to the Dalyan Delta. \u00a0Ilyas dropped us off for a tractor ride up to Caunos, after our walk through the ruins, he collected us and we went on to the town of Dalyan for lunch and a visit to the … Continue reading Dalyan Delta and Lycian Tombs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,48,38,22,24,6,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-antiquities","category-feasts","category-friendship","category-tradition","category-travel","category-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-yz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}