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Journal entry: 17 Sep Monday – Bodrum
à Kusadasi Up around 8.
Beautiful, still cool, morning for breakfast poolside. Took off around 9,
driving up the coast, with several stops – Letmos lake, formerly part of the
bay, but now mostly freshwater. Stopped for tea. Then also, along the road
where there were honey sellers. Great pistachios, too . Local honey & nuts vendors, Bodrum, Turkey
On to Didyma, at times on a really poor road. Built between 750 and 550 BC this is the second largest Apollo temple (after the one at Delphi). Doric Present site features reconstructions from Hellenistic times 4th c BC, uncovered just over 100 years ago. Doric columns originally of marble, some of the restorations used a marble paste in molds to form the fluted rims.
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| Drove on, past cotton fields, with migrant workers just setting up their tents. Lunch in the cotton manufacturing town of Soke (SIEUR-key) – past a tea house packed with men doing little but watch us pass. Pide, kebabs and lamacun for lunch. Then another ½ to the Hotel Ozcelik in Kusadasi Pretty sunset, then watched bats flying around catching (hopefully) mosquitoes. | ||
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