Day 7 – Saklikent

Today we drove out to Saklikent the world’s largest gorge. We hired some plastic slip-on shoes as we had seen about 20 float down the river as we crossed the bridge. We paid, entered the gorge and walked along a bridge with about 100 people and came out in a large area with lots of little platforms built out over the water where people were sitting having food and drinks.
Following the crowd we came to an opening where there was a large part of the river to cross. The water comes down from the mountains and is freezing cold. The water was waist deep and moving quite steadily. It was funny to watch everyone walking across holding hands and trying to cope with the cold water. People coming in the other direction had their faces and bodies covered in mud.

We walked up the gorge for about 11/2 hours, having to climb up lots of slippery rocks. The way back was even better as it was sloping downhill so we were able to slide down the large rocks. We were all soaking wet by the time we got back.

We had some food on the platforms, brought some pictures and then had to get back in the car and return to Fetiye as Ellen and I had to fly back to Istanbul.

We ended up catching a taxi to Dalaman with two Korean girls. We were both very tied on the plane. Got to Istanbul about 11:30pm organized a car and hotel and off we went. The driver had a massive fight with a dude in a big car as we were leaving the car park and we feared for our lives. When we go to the hotel we were told they were full!!!!! Oh god again!!! and so we had to wait about 30mins while they found us another one. Lucky for them they did, not far away and it was a lovely one.