From ruins to beachy goodness!

Today we headed further south but with a detour to the last lot of ruins on our trip, Aphrodisias, found in the town of Geyre. With hardly a soul in sight, once again we felt like we had the place to ourselves. Surprisingly for such well preserved ruins. The amphitheatre, temple and stadium were in amazing condition. It was easier than expected to depict what it would have looked like 2000 years ago. I've never seen such a stadium. It was 270m long and the majority of the seating was still in place. Lucy and I even managed to fit a highly competitive running race in! :p From Aphrodisais we stopped into a local hotel which hadn't seemed to have had guests in months. They couldn't contain their excitement when they saw us. Eagerly they tried to sell us everything on the menu and all the tourist trinkets inside the hotel. We did succumb to eating lamb kofta (even though none of us like lamb) and grilled trout. The highlight would have been when Lucy headed to the ladies and 5 minutes later all we could hear were shouts of help!!! 'Alissssha, Aaaaaron, I'm locked in the toilet!!!" I haven't laughed so hard!! Lucy locking herself in or out of rooms has become a reoccurring pattern. When will it happen next??!?

With our bellies full we set off to Oludeniz. Little did we know that Aaron's GPS had managed to find ever backstreet possible to get there. The varying road surfaces we drove on in those 3 hours was remarkable. At some points we rarely saw another car, allowing us full access to roads and being rally car drivers. After 50 or so kilometres on unsealed roads we were glad to see a highway, even if mammoth road works were going on.

Four long hours later we arrived at the waters edge of Oludeniz's very popular beach. Miraculously we found a car park in the overcrowded back streets and even more so Aaron managed to find the last vacant room in the street, Wooohoo!! The day ended watching the never ending paragliders flying around the towering cliffs and their impressive landing on the waters edge. Very daring! Lucy bravely booked in her tandem flight for the next day, whilst Aaron inspected the possibility of flying with such restricted landing space! Crazy, I say!!