Vacations in Turkey (VIII) : Phaselis, Antalya, departure

July 2nd: Phaselis
Taking a bus to Phaselis is easy: just take the bus that goes to Antalya and stop when they tell you "Phaselis here". We should have worried when the driver had to ask another guy for the price: it usually means it is not a common destination. But OK, never mind ! We go to Phaselis, we have a reservation in a camping there !
A bit like for Akyaka, the bus lets us somewhere in the middle of nowhere - but at least close to a sign that says "Phaselis", so we start walking. After a few meters, I ask a guy how far is Phaselis, and he says about 4 kilometers, which is quite a lot when you carry the luggage and everything ! Fortunately, just after, a car stopped and took us to the place !
The person asked us "where are you going exactly ?", and we answered (naively) "Phaselis", trying to find the sms with the camping address.
But before that, we arrive to a check-point, where you have to pay to enter, and it's where we did understand that Phaselis is the historical site, not the village. But since we were there, we entered ! And we did not regret it, because the site is quite nice ! An ancient city with three creeks where you can swim !

Phaselis - the main street.

Phaselis - one of the creeks.

Phaselis - old aqueduct.

We're looooost ! But ok, let's go and swim, and then, we'll worry !

After the visit on the historical site, we managed to find a taxi to drive us to the camping, where we had a bungalow ! The camping is called Sun Dance Camping, I think, so you would expect some trendy place, with clubs and stuff like that ! Not at all: it's a cool, almost hippie camping ! Good food, funny bungalows in the forest, a beach near-by, a bar, clear sky at night ... It was perfect for the last night, relaxing.

Bungalow.

Beach near the camping. In the background are actually the walls of the ancient city of Phaselis, and the creek in one of the pictures above (the one with a boat).

Enjoying the last peaceful moments ...

July 3rd: back to reality Antalya and Istanbul
Early the next morning, we took a taxi to the main road, where we waited for a bus to drive us to Antalya. In Antalya we found a bus to the airport, with the help of the previous driver, who told us "20 minutes, bus 202, painted in black", and it's exactly what happened ! Once in the airport, normal stuff: check-in, spending the last Turkish Lira (they helped us, by selling stamps 3 times their price, because "airport price" !). The flight to Istanbul was fast (1 hour), and we were in Istanbul at 15h, I think. Then Laura had only about 1 hour to wait for her flight to Zurich. I had to wait until 23h30 for my flight to Jo'burg, and of course, we had 1 hour delay, so it was quite boring ! A piece of advice for those having a long connection in a non-European airport: wait close to the gates of the flights to London ! They are so annoying with checking the visas and all the paperwork of everybody, it's almost funny, but at the same time, you feel a bit sorry ... And better not trying to guess on which criteria they do their checks ...
Ten hours later, I landed in Jo'burg, cold Jo'burg ! And these great vacations were over ...
Can't wait for the next ones ! :-)