One of the best days by far...

When we left Ephesus, we headed to Fatihye so that we could hike 14 km of the Lycian Way, to Butterfly Valley. After a dinner at the fish market. Where you buy the fresh fish and take it to the restaurant of your choice, and they will cook it for you. This was our most expensive meal to date, and sharing did not work in our favor tonight, but it was good still.

Fish Market!

We started our walk early in the morning at 7 am, which was nice because the sun wasn't too hot yet. By about 10 am, it was time for a break and some lunch. We first spotted, at the top of a hill by two little girls holding hands, and then running to our trail tour guide to say hello. We asked if they were his kids, but he told us they were the kids of the family we were going to for lunch. One of the girls grabbed his hand and walked in her sandals down the path, as we walked along the dirt road, catching ourselves from slipping on the gravel. They were pros. We stopped at a natural spring to fill our water bottles, and they grabbed a two liter bottle, filled it with water and carried it back home, chatting merrily with our tour guide as we walked. We went into the village for our homecooked meal. This place had 9-10 houses and about 20-30 people living there. The tour used to stop a little further up for lunch in a different village, but this family was hurting for funds, and the other family already had someone with a job, so they moved the lunch location in order to help their neighbours out. We all sat around a large table as we watched the wife cook us up a tradtional Turkish pancakes. She kneeled on the ground rolling out bits of dough until they were big enough, stuffed them with herbs (heaps of mint), and put them on top of their open fire grill. While she was cooking the girls were entertaining us with normal children antics, except that we weren't able to understand a word of it. Sometimes they would translate for us, but either way, you could tell they were happy kids. Once we finished eating, the wife asked if any of us wanted to try to cook one of the dishes. So, of course I gave it a shot! She was much better than I was, but it was still fun to try.  It was awesome to see a Turkish family and be invited to learn about them, even though they didn't really speak any English. It was also very inspiring to see how happy these little girls who had next to nothing were; it made us very thankful for everything we have.

The girls collecting spring water.

Look mum im cooking for myself!

The beach that can only be reached by boat or by one path in which 3 ropes are needed to get down there

Beautiful hiking views!

hiking.

We continued our hike to our accomodation for the night which were little bungalows at butterfly valley at Georges house! They were really cute but were literally 2 single beds in a wooden hut/cubby house.

Our bungalow for the night!

That afternoon we hung by the pool and then went Paragliding over Olumediz beach! The view was amazing and we paraglided at 2000metres!! Was lots of fun except that after spinning around a few times I felt like I was going to be sick and the guy found it funny so kept doing it and then handed me a plastic bag! Was not a happy girl! We then landed on Olumediz beach and had a swim in the mediterranean ! The beach was pebbled not sand it was really different to home!

Looking hot arent i?

Jumping off the 2000m cliff

The view as I was flying

Paragliding with this beautiful view!

Olumdeiz beach where I landed!

We then squished everyone back into the mini bus and went back to our hotel to watch the sunset!

SO BEAUTIFUL!

The next morning we set out for more hiking. This time we were physically climbing up onto and over rocks on a narrow path directly next to the cliff. And it was still hotter than ever! After about 2 hours of hiking we made it to Kabak beach. The shore was just made up of big rocks, but the ocean was so clear and blue and beautiful!!!

Marnie's random piece of hair

Floating!

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Soaking up some sun

Kabak Beach