Monday, June 26, 2006
Marmaris Beach
Although Marmaris Harbour was spectacular, the actual beach itself left a lot to be desired. The water was pleasantly warm, but there were lots of stones in the water.
The beach consisted over very dark sand, it was as if you were running around in really dry earth it just made everything it stuck to black.
There were some children playing on the beach in front of where we were sitting, they were flinging wet sand at one another and generally getting very dirty. I mean, just look at the colour of my toes.
In the end it got too hot so after stopping at a small kiosk on the edge of the beach for more water, where I jokingly asked the guy in the kiosk if he would rent out his beer cooler - for about a minute I was actually standing in his fridge trying to cool down, Pin and I were off in search of some much needed air-con and lunch.
We found a small internet cafe (with air-con heaven!) and I posted this entry on my stitching blog. It's quite funny really because of the dodgy turkish keyboards all the I's were coming out really strange.
As we were walking along the road in the heat of the mid-day sun we walked past yet another mermaid statue.
This is the view from a little cafe where we had lunch. It was really nice as there were grape vines growing out of the roof.
As we were sitting and eating lunch, we wondered why we were still so hot, we were in the shade after all but we were still sweating buckets. It wasn't until we returned to the ship after doing a little bit more shopping that we were told that the temperature in Marmaris was a cool 42 degrees in the shade. No wonder we were sweating!!
Over the next few days I ended up getting a heat rash, and it probably originated on this day.
The beach consisted over very dark sand, it was as if you were running around in really dry earth it just made everything it stuck to black.
There were some children playing on the beach in front of where we were sitting, they were flinging wet sand at one another and generally getting very dirty. I mean, just look at the colour of my toes.
In the end it got too hot so after stopping at a small kiosk on the edge of the beach for more water, where I jokingly asked the guy in the kiosk if he would rent out his beer cooler - for about a minute I was actually standing in his fridge trying to cool down, Pin and I were off in search of some much needed air-con and lunch.
We found a small internet cafe (with air-con heaven!) and I posted this entry on my stitching blog. It's quite funny really because of the dodgy turkish keyboards all the I's were coming out really strange.
As we were walking along the road in the heat of the mid-day sun we walked past yet another mermaid statue.
This is the view from a little cafe where we had lunch. It was really nice as there were grape vines growing out of the roof.
As we were sitting and eating lunch, we wondered why we were still so hot, we were in the shade after all but we were still sweating buckets. It wasn't until we returned to the ship after doing a little bit more shopping that we were told that the temperature in Marmaris was a cool 42 degrees in the shade. No wonder we were sweating!!
Over the next few days I ended up getting a heat rash, and it probably originated on this day.
// posted by Vash @ 10:22 AM 
