Day 117, October 5, 2014
Today was a relaxed sightseeing day. After breakfast, we drove a little over an hour away from our home base to the tourist village of Dalyan which is a river delta port. High on one side of the port are some Lycian Tombs. This is what we came to see. Built in 2-1 century BCE these tombs were for the rich, the kings, the families that believed this would be their send-off to a higher plane. The limestone cliffs provided basis for these carved tombs. The ones we saw were inaccessible for exploration, but the views were great.
We whiled away the afternoon sitting in a riverside cafe, watching tourist boats, taking pictures, eating lunch, drinking pomegranate juice, and researching our next travel options. We learned yesterday that there was a large scale compromise somewhere of MasterCard information, not ours specifically. Unfortunately, this means that we will be receiving a new card that will need to be activated, and the old one turned off in the next 20 days! Ugh! We hate this as we have no address to which the new card can be sent. Fortunately, we have other means of credit and cash, but such an inconvenience. Now we are more or less forced to make some of our travel arrangements farther in advance than we would have liked.. Grrrrr!.
Anyway, here is a link to the Lycian caves, if you are interested: http://www.lycianturkey.com/lycian_tombs.htm
Tomorrow, we are taking a high speed ferry to the Greek Island of Rhodes for the day.
All is well with the Worrall Travel R's in Marmaris, Turkey.
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