Sunday, October 31, 2010

The Road from Alanya to Side

It is a lovely drive, 4-lane divided, access roads, mountains on one side, a glorious beach on the other, development and banana plantations in between. I'll pontificate on the prospects of the Turkish Riviera on another occasion, but, from what we saw Friday, it clearly rivals Florida's beach development, in most respects; some not so desirable.
Billboards along an otherwise attractive and well-kept
public beach
















A real caravansary...















Converted to a dinner/theatre complex; I think I saw
one of these once in Kissimmee
















Another dinner theatre; note Trojan horse above; stars
Hector, Priam, Achilles, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and,
of course, the beautiful Helen; and a cast of hundreds
















Vacation and resort properties, almost all new, all over















Some interesting architecture















Ditto; comes with inexpensive labor, or so we learned in
China
















Banana plants right down to the beach















The occasional Roman ruin (and a minaret)















At length, we got to Side, a resort town wrapped around
another but unusually good Roman city; Vicki's good
eyes found us a campsite within a few hundred feet of
the ruins, which are strewn all over; and we got to see


















A sunset beyond a storm at sea

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