Perge

We drove on from Aspendos to Perge, intending to do just a drive-by of that site, and heading on up into the mountains again to see Termessos, yet another ancient city site. But photographs of Termessos in a book at the shop at Perge, the distance out of the way, and the rough ground surrounding the ruins at Termessos, all convinced us to stay at Perge, do its stadium and associated sites outside the ticketed area, and to enjoy another day of not doing much. After all, the museum in Antalya is closed on Mondays.

The colonnades at Perge



Perge's pretty much intact stadium, from the closed end of

the horseshoe

Decorative piece on the ground...one of hundreds



South of the stadium, the best-ordered spare parts park I

have yet seen



View from the open end



Here, again, the seats were built atop enormous vaults; the

vaults on the right remain, although their seats have been

toppled, presumably by earthquake



Detail of vault and toppled seats

Interior of the same vault; well, I find this

stuff pretty interesting...

Across the road, and closed to the public (for

"conservation"), the amphitheatre

Later in the afternoon, I did something I have not done

since childhood, namely, crack open a cocoanut, drain (and

retain) the milk, and remove the meat; all this for a chicken

yellow curry Vicki was fixing; try explaining "shredded

cocoanut" to the guy in the Turkish produce department

sometime...

Anyhow, we were all set to spend the night by the stadium

at Perge, when, right in the middle of fixing the curry, the

night watchman approached and told us "problem" and we

must leave; which we did, heading back in the darkness to

Aspendos; oh well...