"Man, I can't wait to do laundry!"

Yes mum these words actually came out of mine and Courtney's mouth.
We just spent 2 days hiking and camping out on the Lycian Trail. We didn't shower, we wore the same clothes (actually, I wore my socks for 5 days so i didnt dirty my clean pair), we were sweating, swimming, dust was getting everywhere and we were beyond dirty.We had sock and short marks from dirt when we took our clothes off!  And then we got on another bus for 3 hours. Sorry for those of you around us !

When we arrived to our new hotel, in Kas, a shower was the first thing on out list, and laundry was a quick second. Mel (our tour guide) told us that the hotel does laundry, 15 Turkish Lira per load. Entirely too much for these backpackers that have shared every meal since day 2 of meeting to save money. (If you check conversion rates, 15 Turkish Lira equals about 10 Australian dollars.)

So, we went on a hunt for hand washing laundry detergent. And we found some, for 3.5 Turkish Lira. A bargain!!! And it is probably enough to keep our clothes clean for the rest of the summer. OK maybe not exactly considering how dirty our socks were, but we are coming to a close on the active hiking portion of our trip.

That night after dinner, we set up an assembly line.  I used the detergeant in the sink (which didn't have a stopper so we used a plastic bag because we were again too cheap to buy a bucket).  Courtney was in charge of then rinsing them out in the shower. And by shower I mean hose. There is nothing that seperates the shower from the rest of the bathroom. The good news about this is that no nasty shower curtain will accidently touch you. Then we set up a clothes line (Thanks to mum's backpacking brilliance) for them to dry. The lines were so heavy, we had to place our big packs on either chair so that they didn't collapse. And water soaked the floor in spite of towels being layed underneath. And it set up quite the boobie trap in our honeymoon suite (please note, we didn't bother to seperate our beds). But we now have clean clothes and we are happy!! And not so smelly!!

Half of the laundry on the line being held up by our big packs on either end, and the stool in the middle

Our beds are still togeher and it's now practically impossible to get out to the balcony!

Also, we gave extra suds and soaking to our socks, leaving them in overnight and scrubing them several times.  They still look dirty and once they were dry I threw courtney her pairs and dirt and sand poured out of them, so we are still learning on the best way to clean the socks!!