Tassie and Heath departed in Rhodes and headed for Turkey. Here is a wonderful update from them on the Southern Coast of Turkey. George
Hello from Turkey! We are sleeping in a tree house in the midst of orange trees! Today we wandered through the ruins of Olympos and they are REALLY still ruined--not excavated at all. There are vines crawling over everything, trees popping up in the rooms, and yellow leaves all over the ground. We walked down forest trails along crumbling walls through intact arches and found giant busted open tombs and mosaics. And when you finish walking through the abandoned city, you step out onto the most gorgeous pebble beach with warm water and bits of ruins all over the cliffs around you. After we exhausted ourselves swimming we laid on some couches that reminded me of being in a tatami room and this old woman made us fresh-cooked pancakes (more like flour tortillas) filled with bananas and warm honey. We're going to go enjoy some hookah and some sort of torch tour this evening...I'm not really sure what that entails. Tomorrow night we're taking a long bus ride to Cappadocia. When we booked plane tickets from Cappadocia to Istanbul, the Turkish airlines offered us a choice of a bland or high fiber meal. I thought that was funny. Hope everyone is well! Can't wait to see you all in July! Love,Tassie
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