A long day with Refreshing Cool Water

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Sitting having breakfast with the bus driver was a different experience , although we couldn't speak the same langue we still managed to fully coverse with each other .

We stopped at a tiny village for a coffee/ tea break on the jeep safari , it was a very basic cafe but the plain biscuits helped erase the bag taste left from the dirty toilets .Not daring to touch the lock due to the amount of dirt caked on the lock i was ill at ease the whole time , scared a local man would come in as they appeared to be unisex toilets .

We stopped at the Saklinkent Gorge  to go canyoning for beginners . The Saklinkent Gorge is around 18km long cut into the Akdaglar Mountains .Entering the gorge you pass through the street of souvenir shops  before walking along a wooded board walk that opens to a wooded platform above the river where refreshments are available to purchase .

The initial crossing of the river is icy cold and fast flowing , the coldness of the water sent painall throughout my body.With my feet sufficiently numb the uneven path posses no problems on my bare feet .I now have no regrets for choosing to go bare feet , the plastic shoes that were available to hire just looked more pain then use .

I'm glad the guides were there to give a helping push/pull over some of the boulders , sometimes being  small has major disadvantages .Although i missed out on taking pictures on this stunning gorge , i would have spent the whole walk paranoid about getting my camera wet .

We only walked a short way along the gorge  due to the limiting time , i would have loved to have gone further as it was so much fun.

Lunch was at the most beautiful setting and the food was plentiful and tasty .We sat on cushioned platforms situated above blue pools formed by the river .The ambience of the place was very relaxing , Its hard to descried the place to do it justice . 

Driving on we next stopped at Xanthos , a ruined city which was once the capital and grandest city of Lycia .It was easy to walk around the roman theater with no secruity guards watching your every move. A few wild goats walked around the site .One was posing brilliantly by the pillar tombs with still clearly visible Lycian inscriptions.Xanthos had a chequered history and it  ended up being destroyed by its own people.

By the time we stopped at Patara beach  the wind had really picked up .The beach is famous for its size  , being 20km long and 50m wide .Its clear to see why the huge expanse of white sand is so popular .We got to see the beach obviously on a bad day , the sea was rough with strong currents dragging you down the beach .Laying on the beach reminded me of being in a sand storms , the sand being blown in to every imaginable orifice possible .With no one manning the sun bed i decided to see if laying on one would make it more bearable .By nearly being taken out by the lounger as it got wiped up by the wind ,it turned out not to be worth the effort.We had 40minutes the kill, i just lay there with my t-shirt covering my head praying that it would be time to leave .

Prior  to returning to Kas  we made on last stop at the patara ruins , another Roman theater.At this stage i was theatred out and didn't make much of an effort to explore .One of the guides eagerly invited us to meet him that evening at the bar where he works .I wonder how many girls he pulls for one night stands following participating on this trip .Although i had no interest in him what so ever i was devastated to notice that my shorts were inside out .

I was now keen to get back to the hotel as i feeling slightly sunbaked .The water fights were dying down between the two jeeps and i could finally dry off .Sitting behind the guide i was always in the firing line with the water .I didn't mind as it was fun and refreshing during the heat of the day .

While Karina was doing some last minute shopping i joined Yuvaz for a well needed coffee .Two differen girls spending so more time together is bound to cause some irritation  , when Yavuz asked what was wrong he understood when i replied women .

For dinner we went to the same restaurant that we went to the first night we stayed at Kas .The food again was amazing  ,and the vodka and coke went down well.The cake that we had bought Yavuz to say thank you for being such a great guide went down the treat and we crooned along to James Blunts ' good bye my lover' which seemed to be stuck on repeat .