Marmaris - the pearl of the Aegean
Marmaris is called the “Pearl of the Aegean Sea” for a reason. A picturesque bay framed by centuries-old pine trees decorated with caring nature.
It all started, as always. . . I want to fly. Today, a tour package in my pocket - tomorrow, I "went into the sunset. " I throw socks, a T-shirt, a cap, swimming trunks, shorts, a bottle of vodka into the Chumadan, all in one copy, just like for a museum. Departure from Kyiv... To an inexperienced reader, this does not mean anything. Minsk-Kyiv/550 km. At border 22 bus, we are eleventh/5 o'clock/warm/very warm/summery/32 degrees Celsius/asphalt is boiling. I survived 50 and above, and I will survive these 32. I looked with horror at the Moscow-Chernivtsi bus. People who move like this - are you suicidal? Not only is the path quite short, and some kind of delusional. Many Muscovites need to go to Chernivtsi? Or is this flight exclusively for guest workers? So also Ukraine, in other matters, like Russia, pickle the migrants to the last. Citizens of the Russian Federation, if you dare to buy a ticket to Turkey, Egypt or another resort in Belarus, with a flight from Kyiv, it is better to fly to Borispol from Minsk by plane. Otherwise, even the most tolerant Belarusians begin to show their national intolerance.
Turkey is a country that is in first place in terms of receiving tourists. That is why all my conscious years, I pushed it away. I just didn't want to be like everyone else. Finances are tight... It means that the time has come (the package cost 680 dollars for all inclusive for three) we are flying to "hated" Turkey.
From the first kilometers, I was surprised at how much, that is, Turkey is green, beautiful, I did not expect this. An hour and a half of the transfer flew by like a couple of minutes, and the loss of the first 5 dollars. Beer at the bus stop cost exactly this amount !! ! Marmaris is an expensive resort, the alcohol is terrible, we stock everything in advance and as much as possible. Today, probably, only the richest, or those who first came to a resort vacation, buy excursions from hotel guides. Prices at least doubled. I'm already, what a prosharenny, and then lohanulsya. At the pier, tickets for the same sea excursion were sold even cheaper. And one of the neighbors at the hotel managed to buy two excursions on the beach, get a hammam as a gift, an excursion to the foam party, a couple of cocktails. People are lucky, but I only find panties under the bed, and then they are large (just kidding)). To be honest, I have heard a lot about how our women spend time in Turkey, but I saw this for the first time. Haven't seen this anywhere. Most of the women from the hotel did not spend the night in it. The Turks lined up cars at the hotel at dawn, bringing them back. From this and the attitude towards us there. You go and hear - Buy bags! Whether such a reprimand from a comrade, but it sounds completely different - Buy bitches !! ! As always, before arriving in a new country, I learn standard phrases. Turkish was difficult for me / Teshekkur edyerim (thank you) I forgot every five minutes. Moreover, in any other country in the world, if I tried to speak the local dialect, and this always made the natives smile, then for some reason in Turkey there was a feeling that they did not understand me at all.
Hamam. After a long road. Flight. It is very good to relax here.
Let's get back to the tours. Everything was fine, and the trip to Dalyan, and the confluence of two seas (later I will create an album). We didn’t go to Pamukkale, as I imagine that in the heat there are three hours of free time to crawl on the stones... In general, I bought a ticket to Rhodes, and again a crazy thought after in my head - “it would be okay not the season, but in the heat seven hours... without food and a guide... "In general, they replaced it with a Jeep Safari. Never take this tour!!! ! Never!! ! I just got into the jeep, and already in the back seat I realized that I had hit... 50 jeeps of at least some Arabs. We were at the main ISIS militant training center!! ! I learned and remembered all the Arabic songs that I had heard in Arab countries, learned to dance in Arabic, and remembered the course of the school English curriculum. The worst thing was that no one warned us that for two hours “ISIS militants” riding jeeps with dancers were shooting each other with water pistols. Imagine a picture - everyone squeals at each other with a squeal, and only three sad representatives sit in civilian clothes for two hours, have already been executed and shot ten times, and are waiting for the final massacre of them. All day in the heat, it would be better if it was Pamukkale. But there are also advantages to this tour. You will see the two-meter waterfall Turgut, from the height of which the same Igilovites are trying unsuccessfully to break their heads, the “girl's braid” - a strip in the middle of the bay, like Mironov walked in the “Diamond Hand”, and gorgeous mountains. The serpentine along which you rush to the terrible sounds of thousands of cicadas will not just disappear from your memory.
Every time you arrive at a seaside resort, you think - Well, there's a lot of seafood. But every time they become the price of gold. Yes, when will I finally hire them!!!
Marmaris is a small town, all lined with tiles, sidewalks in tiles, roads in tiles. Very similar to the center of Pattaya, as if licked. The air is so clean and pleasant for the lungs, to which Mustafa Attatü rk, who suffered from asthma and never used an inhaler here, commissioned the creation of a resort.
The village of Icmeler. The mountains were on fire that day. I was still waiting, for a more complete feeling, when it would shake points under 7. But it didn’t shake, alas))
Such waves are certainly not in Marmaris. This is the Mediterranean Sea, 8 km from Dalaman Airport.
The old man and the sea
It's nice to walk around Marmaris in the evening. Musical fountain. Grand Bazaar. Show of dondurma sellers - a local type of ice cream made from goat's milk and with the addition of orchid roots. It doesn't melt. Very delicious. Some are walking, some are shopping. I'm not a very good shopaholic, so I won't give much advice. But there are all sorts of stock outlets, Waikiki. The Grand Bazaar seemed better to me.
Pleasantly surprised by the rarities
But this is the first time I see this miracle of technology, a self-service checkout. Heard but not seen.
Dondurma
Oh, it's a pity the video is uploaded, only through youtube.
These boats are used to travel with a foam party. You can buy a ticket right there until late in the evening.
If you want the Moon, if you want Mars with Snickers, I'll show you.
Singing fountain. The fountain didn't sing by that time, so I had to sing and wind up the hurdy-gurdy myself.
Thank you Turkey for the warm welcome. Thanks to those people who helped organize our vacation.
Thanks to my readers. Good roads to you, and good people to you people in your travels.
