college buds and solid adventure companions take it to turkey
(l to r) luke, becca, russell, jake
a little lycian
ah, and this would be a turkish beach.
just lit my first eternal flame. def screamed when it caught.
sorry for the crappy quality, but that hillside is on fire, man. freakin' cool.
luke’s face says it all.
oh! the horrendously translated information sign (it asserted that the science could not be “criticized”) at the Chimera trailhead yielded a lil’ baby discovery. yep, this is “santa claus foundation” territory. wtf, right? hilarious at the time and only slightly less so when we learned that the nearbyish town of Demre is the historical birthplace of Saint Nicholas. english translation: (that cropped up ERRYwhere) santa claus. they dig him out here in old lycia. we even stood outside the cathedral (cause we weren’t gonna pay to go inside a place that was only, like, a couple hundred years old) dedicated to st. nick, the man who “became a patron saint for northern countries but who in fact came from a place where it rarely snows” (according to an information pamphlet. but nobody's bitter.). fun facts all around!
day three: blessed sleep-in; a sultan’s türk kahvalı in a flippin’ pagoda; beach “walk” to Olimpos; ruins scrambling and photographing; “walk” back to Uğur; bike to Chimera trailhead; summit o' fire; twelve-year-old boy pyro time lighting eternal flames; sücük and hindi weenies over a natural propane flame; fan-freaking-tastic chimera meal; sharing the fun with baby French cuties Jean Luke, Julia, Dominique, and Matise; another dark walk downhill (bad. habit.); day periodically punctuated by ankle icing and knee dressing, of course.
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