4. day – Antalya, Termessos, Cirali

In the morning – after we left the Ninova Pension – we took the new tramline to Antalya’s otogar (bus station). We left our baggage at the otogar at the left-luggage (12 TL), and we caught immediately a minibus to Termessos. The ride was short, just 30-40 minutes, and the driver let us get off the bus on the main road, near the turn-off to Termessos. A taxidriver was waiting already there (for us). I’m thinking, the busdriver called him to wait for the unfortunate tourists, who haven’t got their own car.

We asked the price to the ruins, but the man said an insolently high tarif, so L. became angry, he left us at the junction and started uphill to the entrance of the National Park. The ruins of Termessos are in the Güllük Dagi Termessos NP. After a few minutes we reached the entrance gate to the NP, and bought the tickets (5TL/person). The park-staff called my attention that the ruins are in a distance of 9 km uphill walk from the entrance. L. was already far away… The taxi driver followed me on the road with the car, and gave me better and better offers for the ride. When he offered 20 TL/way to the ruins, I called for L. to take the car. L. was still angry, but we made the deal. It was a good decision, because the ruins were really very far, the road was very steep on the mountain-side, and we walked till this point just a few hundred meters. After 10 minutes we reached the car-park. From here we could follow a steep path uphill and passed the Hadrian’s Gate, the Artemis-Hadrian Temple and the ruins of the lower city. There are some nice sarcophagis on the way to the upper city. The main attraction, the theatre sits dramatically atop a peak. Nobody was there, so our impressions are really remarkable about the ruins and the view. Just like a little bit Indiana Jones-feeling… The view is magnificent, you can feel yourself like an eagle if you are standing on the edge of the amphitheatre.

After some tranquil minutes we were on the way to the southern necropolis. A steep path leads up the hill, it is at least very rocky, but it’s worth to climbe. We met an Iranian boy on the way, and we talked about our plans and impressions about Turkey and Iran. The boy – just like most Iranians – was very friendly and clever. He told us if we meet in the car-park, he would take us back to Antalya with his car.

The view from the top of the mountain is amazing, on one side of the valley towards Antalya, on the other side just beautiful mountains. There is a watch-tower on the top, if you’ve a need, and you’re brave enough to use, you can try one of the full-panoramic toilets on the top.

We have drunked a self-made coffee, and walked down the path to the car-park, where we met a friendly couple from Georgia. They were traveling by taxi, and we asked them to share the car to Antalya. The were really friendly and helpful, and we shared the taxi with them for the ride back. They hired the car with driver for the whole day and they said we have to give some money just to the taxidriver. The driver drove the car and bought us as far as the otogar, we gave him 20 TL baksheesh, and he seemed really satisfied. We took up our baggage and hopped on the dolmus to Cirali (Kas).

Ciraly is a little seaside village between Antalya and Kas. Before the journey I had the impressions, it is – away from the tourism - an untouched village, but I was wrong and Cirali is very-very popular among tourists. There are uncountable pansions and hostels in the village. It’s maybe crowded in summer but unpeopled in winter. The dolmus let us get off near the junction to Cirali, which is about 7 kms from the main road, the driver said it’s another dolmus to the village. We were waiting a couple of minutes, but nothing was coming, so we started to walk down the road. We tried to hitchhike, and the second car took us up. The driver was a pension owner in Cirali, but he didn’t know where our pension was exactly. He left us on the seaside road in the village, from where we started to walk to the direction inhabitants said us. It was already late afternoon, after 4 pm, fast 5, and it was growing dark.

We were really tired, hungry, we wanted just take a shower, and then simply lie in the bed. After an hour walking we found our pension (Chimera Yanartas Pension) on the end of the village, close to the Chimera/Yanartas. Just an old lady was there and she couldn’t speak english. She was nice and friendly, she showed our simple bungalow. We had an AC, but we couldn’t use it in the first night, because we weren’t able to heat with it, something was wrong with the settings. We spent the night in the chilly bungalow, we could see our breathe in the cold air. Fortunately we had many blankets and we used all of them in this night.

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