Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Ucagiz-Simen

We read in a book that the town of Kekova is paradise, so we took a side road to check it out. It turns out that Kekova is on an island just off the coast of Turkey near the town of Ucagiz. When we got near the town we were told that the road was closed and we couldn't drive into the town, so we parked up the hill and walked down a few blocks. Everything seemed to be in order, so Don went back and drove the car closer to the village.

We strolled down the narrow roads of the village to the harbor. As we did our walk we were approached by several fellows who offered to take us out on their boat, for a price, of course, to see the sunken city. We passed on the boat ride because we felt totally ruined (as in we have now seen enough ruins to last us several years). The harbor is lovely and would be a great place to moor a boat. It is a sleepy, sunny, peaceful little village. The school kids played around the plaza and some of them actually marched down the pier and took a boat across to Kekova island, where, presumably, they live.


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