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