Olympos Beach. Very nice until the day-trippers start rolling in and fill it up...
Olympos, to our surprise, was incredibly small. It's basically an old hippy village with pensions lining the one road to the beach. The novelty of Olympos is that many of these pensions have 'treehouses' as the accomodation. We freaked out a little when we arrived at ours because there were people everywhere. In this quiet season we were not used to seeing so many people at the pensions - i'm talking around 200. But it was good to see that many were Turkish.
View of some of the treehouses at Kadir's
Tomb Raiders at it again. The ruins of Olympos are still covered in jungle, good fun looking for them, but hot work...
Olympos is the home to Chimera flames. These occur when gases leaking from rocks ignite when they hit the air. These are cool... or hot if you like. I couldn't help thinking that every campsite at home needs some of these:) Think about it - no arguments about who makes the best fire. No burning of loads of newspapers to keep it alight. No bother about smoeone having to remember putting it out... pretty handy. But i think the gases are running out. Set on Mt Olympos, The chimeras used to act as a warnign of land to ships at sea (quite a distance from the flames), but you can no longer see the flames from the sea.
The flames. Very weird, coming out of nowhere.
I liked this shot.
I am beginning to appreciate that these wonders we've been seeing around Turkey are not going to be here forever.
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