Antalya

 
  Couch surfing has truly made our journey.  After the amazing experience of staying with the
turkish family, we were blessed with a really lovely guy in Antalya.
Antalya is one of the more popular beach cities of Turkey along the meditteraean.  After all the hiking in Cappadocia
we were so excited to be lazy.  We spent the first day on the beach before going back to Adil's to make salad and paint.
That night he took us out to dinner! We sat by a view of the ocean, or an extended sky which reflected the moon and the
city's night life.  More importantly, We sat across from the band - three incredible musicians interchaning acoustic guitar,
bass, vocals, sax and the flute.  Adil knew the owner so we had wonderful service and an unforgettable evening.  Couchsurfing
also has enabled us to hear a variety of differing historiographies based on the forming of turkey.  For example, most people
we'd met were ardent supporters of Atatuk's regime.  Adil, however, enlightened us with the true story of how Atatuk took
power and implemented a neo-fascist government.  This forced immediate secularization - cutting out all arabic culture like
the alphabet and much vocab.  There are now problems in tghe Turkish language because the western alphabet can't differentiate
sounds.
Dinner gave me a taste for comfort, and I decided that the next day we'd get a Turkish Hamman just for my mum ;)
We did, as well as explore the old city, before going to a club playing live pop music...had a groove and woke up a few hours

after our hammam ! 

just the usual

ate a muscle stuffed with ricey tomato goodness on the beach !

later for our bus to the myssterious Denizli!