Turkey 09 - Dalyan Delta & Turtle Beach

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Wow it's not easy to keep this blog thing up while I'm on my break
Because whenever I have any spare time I obviously want to spend it with family/friends that I hardly get to see - the crap bit about living away from home huh

Here are more photos from my last holiday - they're taken during a long day trip to a place called Dalyan - 4 hours from Bodrum. We visited a mud bath/hot spring and then took an hour long boat ride (had lunch on it!) winding through the marshlands that led to a beautiful and amazing beach. On the way we even saw a big turtle!
Oh and that's why the beach was called Turtle Beach.

Note: Will resume more fashion/clothes related stuff in 1-2 weeks sorry!



I'll start off with a picture of myself, of course
H aha ha
This was taken on the boat - can you see my big mozzie bite mark



The mud bath/hot springs
Decided to not include any more photos from this part of the day cos there weren't any that I liked and they all looked disgusting anyway - dont think you want to see me covered in mud and looking like I'm naked underneath
The mud was gross! And the air smelt like rotten eggs! But it was still fun overall!









On the way through the delta we saw these big stone carvings - they're ancient kings' tombs.. or something of that sort. This photo only captures a part of it.







I wish I had an aerial photo of the marshes that the boat navigated through
It was so cool like a big hedge maze
I imagined having a big race there with jetskis and speedboats.. and flashlights if it's dark!
We could even get into teams and play some sort of game and hide in the thick grass and stuff aahhh



The boat ride was so scenic and the weather perfect
I just stayed at the front; the air was so good...
Thank f the smokers stayed at the back, INSIDE the boat.. enjoying their..smoke? :S



This is a sort of.. river tollgate



Later on the boat pulled up next to a small fishing one
A lady tied a crab onto a string and threw it into the river to lure turtles up to the surface for us to see





So excited when I saw this
Luckily the turtle was nice and bobbed its head up a couple of times
And because I sat at the front of the boat I got the best view!

Turtle Beach

I nearly died when we got to the beach
It was so so amazing, the sun was fully out and it was just BEAUTIFUL

Took tons of photos but unfortunately most of them includes me prancing around and doing dumbo faces so I'm keeping those private!





Ok here's one of me



I look so DuHhh like DUH what is this place with sand
But isnt the backdrop so pretty


I'm wearing my friend Rose's bathers hehe

Had so much fun splashing in the water
I ended up stealing (not on purpose) some boy's pool noodle
And trying to use it as a bodyboard.. it worked a few times WHOOOSH it was heaps of fun!



On the return boat ride
Something really odd happened
Imagine the boat just cruising along at a relaxed pace through that scenic path like in the photos earlier
But this time with CRAZY ridiculous turkish dance music blasting out of it
Yeah! That's what happened!!
It was so irritating but it was so silly that it made me laugh!

Ok that's all now
I had to stay up to do this (have got no other time :S), it's past 2am now and my eyes are falling out

OH I watched '2012' today.. all the times they narrowly escaped I could only think 'WOWWW I wonder what THAT must feel like!!!!!!' and kinda wish that happened to me

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