Turkey , Day 3

Today we picked up the car and went off in search of a ruined city by the name of Lybre, although it's known as Seleukeia on the map. We'd hardly been going before we ended up on an unpaved section of road. Strange, as Tomtom is set to avoid them. To be honest though, some of the paved roads are really shite, with massive potholes in them.

We spent a couple of hours I suppose, scrambling over rocks, fallen 2nd century buildings and through the pine forest, which has now enveloped the city. Some of the buildings, for example the Agora, are in a condition we've never seen before. Amazing, after almost 2,000 years.

Lybre Agora

From Lybre we picked up the trail of the Aquaduct that used to feed ancient Side. There are several chunks of it left standing.

Oymapinar Aquaduct

From there we went up to the Oymapinar dam and lake. It wasn't possible to get close to the dam or get a decent picture but the lake was nice. They do boat trips on it. Nearby there was a fountain, with locals filling up masses of huge water bottles. Grizzly and I saw something similar in Portugal. Free drinking water!

We made our way back from the dam to Manavgat Waterfalls. This is one of the biggest attractions in the region. It's commercialised and fenced, so you have to pay 90p to get in. There's a couple of restaurants, some souvenir shops, a bloke charging to take your photo with one of his parrots and a couple of podiums overlooking the falls. Niagara it ain't and Catherine was somewhat underwhelmed by them. At least we can say we've done them and it was cheap enough to get in.

Manavgat Waterfall

From the falls we made our way home. 

One thing I quickly learnt, the Turks are very energy conscious, saving energy by never using their indicators! Oh yes and the traffic on a roundabout has to give way.