Bonus Post | Antalya Archaeology Museum

Some of the treasures of Lycia from excavations in Perge, Xanthos, Letoon etc. are held in Antalya's Museum of Archaeology, while many more are held in other museums around the world after being looted or unofficially excavated in the years before the Turkish state cared about such things. Some have been returned from museums in the US and Germany but many more remain overseas. Map of the ancient...

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Day-16 | All Good Things Come To An End

Çayağzı to Demre via ruins of Andriake & Myra | 12.3km The last day. Campsite breakfast, packed and a brief walk past the Çayağzı boatyard and onto a gravel road toward the Andriake ruins that acted as a port city to nearby Myra. Çayağzı boatyard Church at Andriake Bath house Pulpit of another Andriakian church Mureks (purple dye) workshop at Andriake Cistern...

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Day-15 | Bittersweet Efes Malt Day

Needing to think of my next move, and my walking buddy Morten deciding to cut his journey at Demre a short distance away, I took a day off and chilled at the campsite, eating and drinking beer while I updated the blog and caught up on some reading. Efes keyif... Andriake campsite Lavaş flat bread, tuna and local veggies for a DIY lunch and later a grilled breem fish dinner at a local harbour...

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