Boat Trips

When you are on holiday one of the things everyone must do is go on a boat trip.For complete relaxation and absolute enjoyment I can thoroughly recommend it.You have a vast selection of boats to choose from between Olu Deniz and Fethiye.There are also different trips to go on,the most popular I think is the 12 Islands.It is an all day trip and on some islands you will find a simple restaurant,on others fragments of classical or Byzantine ruins,on others nothing but glorious peace and quiet.

The most interesting islands and mainland bays include Merdivenli (step ladder bay) which has an ancient cave cut into the side of the rock. Afrodit koyu (Cleopatra's Bath) is an ancient ruined bath house.According to the myth,in one of the visits of Cleopatra to Anatolian coasts,her close friends decided to build a roman bath for her as a present, because they found a hot water spring in this part of the bay.

The water here was very good for the skin,with the minerals and elements it contained like Calcium,Magnesium etc. Bedri Rahmi bay was named after the Turkish artist Bedri Rahmi Pehlivanoglu,famous for his portraits of Arabic Sultans.He visited the island several times and painted a fish eye picture on the wall. Domuz Adasi (Pig Island) was so named because of the pigs that swam there. Tersane Adasi (Shipyard Island)has ruins of an ancient shipyard. Gemiler (St. Nicholas) Island, once home to Lycian and Byzantine pirates,has remains of an entire village there to be explored,with a covered passage to a temple and basilica. It is a wonderful place to swim and snorkel,and an equally wonderful place to take in a hilltop sunset with a bottle of wine.

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