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and i've done a rough calculation that

if we go to did him from here without

refueling here

it's taken us down to the bottom end of

the tank and i don't want to do that

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it's tuesday today and we're just about

to leave net cell marina in marmaris

and we're heading to bozaki which is

about a five hour trip

lovely sunny day it's quite mild

actually so we're looking forward to

getting out and seeing some more

beautiful turkish coastline

first stop is fuel because we have used

14 hours of fuel so far getting to

marmaris

our next real fuel stop is didim

although there are places

along the way we could go into but for

ease of refueling did him is the best

and i've done a rough calculation that

if we go to did him from here without

refueling here

it's taken us down to the bottom end of

the tank and i don't want to do that i'm

estimating that we're going to need

about 70 liters to

top off the tank let's see when we get

to the fuel target

thanks

good morning

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done that before

i've had done that before

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um

it looks like our estimated hourly fuel

consumption was about spot on

it was close enough to 72 liters so

we're doing around about

4.5 liters per hour which is

not too bad next up

been there before you know it when we

get there you'll know it

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it's early spring and the winds are

still unsettled along the turkish coast

which means we have to plan our

anchorages based on which direction the

wind will be blowing

once we're actually anchored so coming

out of marmaris we had to plan

how far we were going to travel in each

day and then where we were going to

anchor at night based on the protection

offered by the anchorage

from armories we planned to go to

basically because

at bossicale we had the choice of either

one of three

restaurant yetis or if they were open or

available

we had the choice of an anchorage spot

there too

we finally decided from marmaris to go

directly to bozo carla for one night

then move up to dacha and we'd stay in

dacha where we had

access to good internet provisions fuel

and water and we needed to stay at dacha

for a couple of days because there was a

big wind coming in

from the north

bye bye marmaris see you on the way back

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so

so we're coming around the corner and

now we get a

true understanding of what the wind is

doing

um looking at the waves on the water

it's the right speed for us to get

sailing but once we make

our turn we'll find out whether it's

going to be

the right direction so fingers crossed

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well it was not a bad passage was it

that but considering

we were into 20 knots of wind or

right on the nose um the

the waves weren't that big really the

swell wasn't that big and so it was

quite enjoyable

it got exciting in the last half hour

really it really did yeah there's

we are in basically which is a place

we've been to before

it's a big bay and it has three

restaurant jetties

now our preferred one because of the

wind and the

waves and the swell was the first one

and we could see yacht already tied back

to that jetty

and he had lazy two lazy lines on so

obviously somebody had

sorted him out um and we went

in and positioned ourselves and nobody

from the restaurant came out

so i went okay screw this we'll go and

anchor

as we were coming down to the anchorage

where we're at now uh we went past the

second restaurant yeti and the guy came

up wherever the flags

and i thought he's eager we'll give him

the business

but as we uh reverse towards his

big jetty uh and he took out two lines

of shore and then she was

up at the front end doing the uh slime

on

uh the the swell was just

just too much pushing it sorry it was

pushing us on to

the jetty and it was like big swells

wasn't it yeah it was just

what wouldn't have been comfortable not

even not even with all of the fenders

out

no no so we aborted that and the guy

went yeah

okay i understand and so we've come down

to the

head of the bay uh the third place here

even though the guy said yeah come come

tie up here

they're actually rebuilding still in the

construction phase

of the jetty itself but we've we've

anchored

we've anchored in seven meters of water

we've got 42 meters of chain out

it's a sandy sort of like pebbly bottom

um but we reversed to 3 000 revs and

she's stuck so

we're in yeah we've got six to one scope

the wind is

forecast to drop overnight to almost

nothing so hopefully this

this swell uh which gives us a bit of a

roll at the moment

will drop as well as the wind drops but

we're only here for tonight anyway

yeah so it's no big deal so anyway yeah

we're in we're in

we're here we're gonna put the boat to

bed and uh download all today's camera

footage yeah

see ya we're going

that way today into the mr valley

yeah because we're on our way to

arikanda

which is a bit inland to where we've

been before

oh okay at least you know where we're

going well

i know the name of where we're going

even though it hasn't been raining for a

few days just

looking through the gaps in the trees

here and when we come around this bend

you might be able to see it

uh the valley is still the misty valley

there it is

wow look at that i'm gonna put one in

the window

i'm pretty sure that this valley has got

a proper turkish name but we don't know

what that is

so we just call it the misty valley

that's where we're going down into a lot

of farmers in there a lot of

agricultural

stuff being grown

driving into the mist

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i was saying to buzz two years ago when

we came those hills would have been

covered with snow

yeah this time of year so it's obviously

been milder this year or harsher that

year

yeah yeah

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such a long time since i've seen

deciduous trees together

it's really weird yeah the deciduous

trees that we passed

we're trying to work out what kind of

trees they are

and i picked a leaf that's this shape

and there are lots of these sort of seed

podi type things

underneath the tree so if anybody knows

what

species of tree that is we'd really like

to know put it in the comments below

still quite a climb to go and if we look

down

that down there is the misty valley

so we've come through that and wound our

way

all the way up the roads here

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by the way if you're ever in cash this

guy is the guy to see if you want a car

rental

or quite a few other services he does a

lot of stuff for tourism

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yeah i was just noticing though that the

ground here but unlike the fertile

valleys it's very very rocky um

so you know i guess that limits what

they can grow here

yeah see some uh grapevines yeah just a

few

probably yeah there and maybe

apple trees and things like that yeah

very very very stony ground

we are nearly there buzz we are very

nearly there yeah going up a short

narrow road let's hope we don't meet a

bus coming the other way

what's that say jeffnet jeffnet jeffnet

jeff

no we'd just be showing them our card

anyway yeah

we're here we are here

well look it goes all the way over there

and it's going to have a great view

what i want to know is how did the

lysines find these places they must have

sent scouts out

well yeah i mean you can imagine in them

days there'd be no roads so

why would they find this is right

yeah a mountain

oh look at that i think we're going to

need jacket spaz

okay this is for mike yes another pile

of broken bricks

here we are in arikanda and this

settlement is not like anything we've

seen before

it's actually located 150 kilometers

inland

from antalya on the coast of turkey it

was first discovered

in 1838 by an english researcher

traveler and he

figured out its location based on grave

inscriptions

and coins that he collected from the

surface and around the end of the 19th

and the beginning of the 20th century

many people took notice of this place as

you know more travelers came through and

in 1971 a turkish team of archaeologists

began excavating the site

though the city didn't carry a great

political significance in the history of

like lycia it was defined by some

ancient writers as a city

of lazy and hedonist people and the

reason why

it was here and the reason why it was

able to build such um an extensive

system of housing and sanitation and

fresh water systems was simply because

they

had a perfect spot on the road that

connects inland lake here to the coastal

lands and also there are a lot of seed

woods here

which they chop down and sold for

housing and boat construction so that's

why it's here

and that's how the people who inhabited

the place managed to live the

lazy and hesitant lifestyle that they

did apparently

let's take a look around this is the

first structure that we come across when

we first enter this archaeological site

and although we can see similar sized

blocks with

similar tools being used to carve them

the fitting of the joints is nowhere

near as precise

as what we've seen in other

archeological sites

interesting now that here

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in this doorway is an ancient goddess

hey let's see ancient interesting though

in this doorway here

just off to one side of it is

a little hole cut through the rock we've

seen this before

i'd love to know what the purpose of

that was

do you tie your donkey to it or

something i don't know

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so here is the view and i'm going to

assume that the

current road roughly follows the path of

the

ancient road because they generally tend

to do that

very cloudy today so you don't get the

spectacular colors popping out but

it's a heck of a view here's an example

of the channels that they had running

through

all of the buildings and throughout most

of the town

they had a very separated scheme for

sewage water and fresh water and these

would be

piped up to the hills behind and they

would get the water running through

so they were quite sophisticated even

though they were lazy

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amazing how the arches seem to stand the

test of time

square cut stone floor slabs

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saw this through a hole in the wall

now this looks like some sort of bath

house

with a raised floor on these circular

pieces

i'm just guessing here but that's what

it looks like

from what we've seen in other

archaeological leagues rough

construction

but maybe they just plastered over it to

make it nice and

smooth and over the years the plaster

has fallen away

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there's also a very different style of

decoration that they put on their

capstones here

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not seen that in any of the other places

we've ever visited this is something

we've seen before

square cup block with a hole in the

middle

and that as we've seen on other places

is your toilet is it on there and do you

do

obviously not in that position it would

be positioned over

a running channel for the sewerage to be

taken away

further up the hill there's larger

structures and as you can see those

three people walking across the front

there

they're quite big walking further up the

hill to our first

major structure and this

shows a grand scale of thought

let's go and have a look inside there's

no plaque here to say what this building

was but it's quite a

grand and impressive entrance

massive arches though

huge yeah yeah

here's an interesting remnant a mosaic

floor

and i would imagine that this stretched

all the way across here

which might indicate that this whole

area from

there all the way over to that entrance

there

was covered looks like my earlier

thought of the fact that the roughness

of the way they placed the stones was

covered in plaster

and this looks like original plaster

so they didn't have to be perfect

because everything got plastered

to get a better scale of this building

that we looked at before

that's the windows we were looking at

and that's that big bay window that we

were looking at

they certainly did think big this is a

bit closer to the big bay window

on that building and you can see why

they

put a bay window in here because the

view is spectacular

i'm guessing a lot of these pine trees

wouldn't have been here in the day

you could just look right down the

valley and ride up the other side

this appears to be some sort of large

very large bath house

this here would have been the floor

level

you can see hulls here for water hot

water to come through

and these again round disc shaped rocks

which would have supported the floor all

the way through here

maybe steps up to another level as well

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so this would have been the level of the

floor of you walking

yeah so you're walking through but even

so if that was the level of the floor

it's still a tall tall doorway

i've never seen that style before

immense absolutely immense

as we climb further up hill and get

above the bathhouse with the big bay

window

we get a better perspective of just how

big

this establishment was uh it goes back

back back back and back

and back this collection of stones is

obviously what the archaeologists have

pieced together because

this obviously belongs on the top end of

a building but they put it down

on a flat piece of wall here at

head height level it's it's quite

impressive to be able to get up close

and see

how they've carved these

pieces just wish

i knew what it all said

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now this is quite interesting higher up

the hill

we see a cutting style of the

building blocks that we're quite

familiar with from the other

archaeological sites again we've got

this tight tight tight tight

fitting blocks and everything is

perfectly aligned

hmm it's almost like

two different building styles in one

place so here we see

a third style of cutting and laying the

rocks

now considering this site is roughly 4

000 years old

it's not a stretch of the imagination

to think that maybe three different

types of people

lived here and built in their own

particular way

what i like is they put these wedge

shaped ones

where they need them there's one there

one there

it's a little one over there interesting

after climbing up quite a few steep

steps

from way down there you come around the

corner and you are greeted

with this minus the tree of course the

tree is a new addition and so is that

tree up there

but here we are once again in the

amphitheater

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built in the greek style from

the year 1bc and the 180

and this one no special seating in the

middle here for vips

so the stage area and all the backstage

bits

but strangely enough the one thing

that's missing

in this particular stage area is some

sort of decoration it's very plain

in fact the only thing that i can see

here that's actually

decorated anyway and this stone might

even not

belong here is this one here

and they really didn't go to town on it

we're now

pretty much at the top of this

excavation site and

that tree that tree and definitely that

tree

went there or that one when this was

built so this is the stadia or stadium

and this is a half size one then what is

normal

length for a stadium and they only have

seating tiers on one side

instead of both sides the reason is

because they simply

didn't have enough room to build a full

length stadium

and they would have races here and here

we are

at one end looking down the full length

of this half stadium

imagine how big a full-sized stadium is

we're pretty much at the top of the site

here and this is the commercial agora or

basically the shopping center

the biggest structure is in the

acropolis which is the top end of the

arikanda and uh best example of

hellenistic architecture

12 shops were aligned on the northern

side of the agora the floor was laid

with smooth rectangular plates of stone

and there was long wooden stower

extending in front of the shops which

one could ascend in two steps

now i just look down there and i can see

our car way down below so imagine

walking all the way up here

getting your groceries getting down to

your house and your wife says did you

remember the milk

join us next week as we sail and explore

more of turkey

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