正常去Efes 都是以selcuk為基地, 我們想對住愛琴海, 所以以Kuşadası為住宿地, 反正揸車去Efes 同Selcuk 是一樣.
一到Izmir 機場我們馬上找到booked 左的車行, 很快拿到車子. 不過好搞笑租車都可以搞出一頭煙. 一出機埸我們找到加油站加油, 一個土耳其人過來話我地俾人騙了, 我們應該是租左佢地公司的車, 跟住要我們去機場同原來agent cancel order, 再同佢地租反車. 如是去反機場, 佢同人地理論, 但人地有晒我地booking, 完全沒錯. 條油不得要領, 憤怒到丟下我和朋友, 自己走開了.
O 完嘴, 我地揸反車去反加油站, 佢朋友再次話我地俾人騙, 要我地租左佢部車. 我同朋友堅持不要, 佢恐嚇我們如果有什麼意外, 我地要負全責blah blah blah, 俾佢浪費了成粒鍾, 真是"踩佢"都傻. 我叫朋友show 都唔show 佢, 走人.
才到土耳其兩天, 已經俾人當水魚, 前一日才俾apartment 個人騙說包車去istanbul 機埸要40euros, 其實才只要20euros-->可愛純真司機只收我們20euros. 我相信土耳其人去到大陸一定如魚得水, 完全沒生存不到的問題. 去土耳其一定要小心, 因為佢地都是同你friend 前friend 後,結果都是要你的$$$, 結果我地成個行程沒咩俾人騙的情況------>因為我地太醒目la
Kuşadası 是一個渡假地, 在這裡聽不到清真寺的祈禱, 只有disco 的吵鬧. 人比Istanbul friendly, 成日請我地drink tea. 不過店舖sales 極端annoying, 成日叫我地.
(整個行程俾我的感覺是土耳其人(男人, 因為女人比較少接觸)EQ 極低, 很容易動怒. 做生意非常死纏難打, 但很現實: 一知你沒買的意念, 馬上變臉. 非常狡猾, 好色, 口水多過茶<----只限同tourist 接觸的, 當地人應該好善良+純真.
水清見底, 周圍都是海胆.
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行完Efes, 我們去左Sirince. 一句講晒: 是一個做遊客生意的小山城. 幾條街佈滿賣酒, olive oil, honey, fruit, icecream, soap 等等的攤位. 不同的是好多阿嬸阿婆在賣野, 我估是家庭主婦出來幫忙家計. 一樣口臉: 熱情招呼你, 唔買馬上黑面, 好鬼恐怖.
不過悠悠閒閒行兩三個鐘都幾好, 我本身好中意這種山城的感覺: 兜兜轉轉始終可以找到出路, 只要向下/向上走就可以. 古老房屋, 鮮花, 攀藤..... 適合拖著情人的手一起漫步.
見到最好笑容的居然是呢間餐廳的少女waitress. 野食都地道. 微風, 美食, 美景= a relaxing afternoon.
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Efes 和Sirince 只需半天可以行完, 下午我想行Priene & Miletus, 結果是沒可能的, 因為成2個鐘才去到Priene, 所以 Miletus 第二天早上才去. 就是呢架Ford Focus 帶住我地行左一星期, 身為乘客的我完全是女王的享受. 土耳其地大物博, 一路美景不斷.
Priene 細得來沒咩特別, 仲要位於高地, 風大地貧, 沙塵陣陣, 我地一不小心已經滿口沙.
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我們由Miletus再揸2小時到左Didim, 另一個
愛琴海渡假地, 和Kuşadası一樣: 在這裡聽不到清真寺的祈禱, 只有disco 的吵鬧. 愛琴海是那麼美麗, 一望見底, 可惜充滿香煙頭和垃圾的沙灘令它一點都不浪漫, 人的質素都偏低:店舖sales餐廳 極端annoying, 成日不停阻擋我們去路要人光顧.
晚上食完dinner 行街都是一路俾人liu + 叫喚. 行到半路見到前面放煙花, 好開心. 點知煙花愈放愈近+低, 差一點要掉落到我們身上. 我們馬上四處逃避, 真是俾佢嚇死(I used my iphone to take those pics, you can imagine how close we're with the firework, guess this kind of things only happen in China and Turkey, they don't really have any concern with safety issue)
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Seems I wasn't writting much nice things about Turkey, well I'd to admit that I'm not impressed with the tourist attractions that much, however there're beauties hidden everywhere. The views're wonderful during our whole trip of driving, we got to enjoy the Aegean sea from distance, it's simply wonderful.
We spent 3 hrs driving directly from Didim to Pamukkale for the white cotton castle, when we're entering the village, some people tried to jump in front of our car to stop us to sell tours or other things, it's real annoying and dangerous. We visited Pamukkale right after lunch (by lunch I mean heaing for like hrs until it's like 4pm because the sun was totally burning, I'm sure it's over 35 degrees that day), sunset was like 9pm so we had plenty of time to explore the ruin and spring.
A lot of people wore swimming suits to get into Pamukkale, we did the same except we covered ourselves a bit LOL. It made me a bit confused if I was in Turkey or not because everyone's so casual and relaxed here.
Before we jumped into the "spring water", we visited Hierapolis the ancient greek ruin. It's relatively small but added colors to the white castle.
If you expect to see a true white cotton castle, you might be disappointed because more than half of Pamukkale's already dried up. Plus the water's not hot spring water, it's all manmade.
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We only stayed 1 night in Pamukkale, which is good enough to see everything, because it's a very small town.
We needed to go to Cappadocia from Pamukkale, which is over 300km, we divided it into a 2 day drive. We stopped in Isparta (the rose city) to shop rose products (cream and rose water only after all, nobody was interested in the strong flavor rose oil). Had the nicest lunch recommended by the local people, shopped a lot of local products like apricots dried figs, & nuts in local stores. It's actually the first time we felt the great warmth of turkish people. Turks are not so greedy and bad to me after Isparta & Konya.
Shopping mall in Isparta
We just stopped over to buy some figs, the shop owner offered us tea and being so nice and helpful
Isparta downtown
This is the most handsome guy I saw in Turkey, I think 90% of turks have beard, very arabic look: half moon eye brows, big nose and relatively shorter than european. All the teens're very thin but I think guys over 30 all have a belly, guess it's the diet problem: too much fat and sugar. Honestly I don't find anyone handsome, I think Italian and Spanish look much nicer.
There's this beautiful lake called Egirdir, we simply loved it. We walked through a local market in the way to the lake, people offered us so many fruit to try and take free of charge. Guess it's not a tourist area and they welcome new face. Just a second I fell in love with Isparta and Egirdir, it's so nice to see the humble and nice turkish on earth.
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If you don't have enough time, you might choose to fly directly from Istanbul or other places to Nevsehir airport, Cappadocia, then go to Goreme (which takes probably half an hour). Most people choose to stay in Goreme to experience the cave life, we did the same. My feeling's it's really humid and cold inside the cave, I had the first time not having a good night of sleep in Turkey, and it belonged to Cappadocia.
Our cave hotel's actually not so bad , we spent a wonderful night overlooking the beautiful cappadocia night views.
The guys wanted to have the balloon flight so bad so they got up at 4am waiting, human beings're simply so brave, there's just an accident in the same area caused 2 deaths. I decided to follow them but of course I expected people to wake me up. It ended up being very windy and had some rain, the flight's cancelled.
We chose to follow the green tour the second day, visited few more areas including the undergroud world and the canyon. It's so windy and we had like 2 days seeing the strange stones and caves nonstop, ended up being a bit sick of it and the city girls prefered staying inside the car instead of taking pics.
To me, 2 days in Cappadocia are good enough.
We mainly visited the open air museum, underground city, ihlara valley & Yaprakhisar selime, you really don't have to bother about the names, just refer to the tours as your daily plans if you drive, if not, you can simply join the local tour since it's very difficult for solos to travel alone in Cappadocia.
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