We have a swim before our buffet breakfast.
There is a pretty good choice: bread,cheese,garlic sausage,olives,tomatoes,watermelon,boiled egg, greek yoghurt,various jams & honey, cereal ,juice and coffee or tea.
Over breakfast the hotel owner Kaan gives us the bad news that our tour operator has gone bust!
We try to look up on the web what is happening but there are not many details. We check our travel insurance,but it seems we are not covered for bankruptcy and Kaan wants us to pay for our rooms-although it looks like the flights are covered by Atol.
There isn’t anything we can do so we head down to Chalis beach itself,about 20 minutes walk away, to see what it has to offer.
It is a very long beach,I think one of the longest in the area
We walk along the seafront.
This time enjoying the banter from the waiters trying to get us to their restaurant…”You’ve broken my heart” “ I need your money” “Please don’t walk away beautiful!”
Debs goes on a mission to collect as many tour brochures as she can-its not difficult ,its either restaurants or day trip operators.
We chat to one operator who offers to throw in a free trip to Fethyie market,but we say we will decide later.
Over lunch of fresh trout for Debs and kebab for me we decide which trips we want to do. We are going to go for the full whammy, but when we get back to Speedy’s pitch he is not there! Typical,all these people touting for business and our one has disappeared!
We decide to have an ice cream and wait
Eventually there is someone there and we book
Trip to Hamman ( Turkish bath)
Jeep safari
Trip to Fethyie M\rket & Ghost toem
12 Island boat tour.
The first of these we will be going on immediately.
Now as you might imagine I’m afraid there’s no photos of our Turkish Bath Experience,but an experience it was! Totally different to the one we had in Lille earlier in the year which was a communal baths and quite swish.
This was pretty basic, just us and two fairly burly Turkish guys !
Its a sauna first and not a steam bath. Then we get taken into a room with a large marble slab in the middle. The guys ask us to lay flat down and then they throw a bucket of cold water over us…a bit of a shock! They proceed to throw warm water over us,then lather us up with what looks like a large pillowcase full of bubbles!. This then gets washed of ,with my guy giving me a few pummelling slaps as well! We then have to sit on the side while they wash our hair. finally to finish off another bucket of cold water.
After that we rest for a while before having a 60 minute massage ,this time by girls. At one stage they climb up onto the massage table and both Debs & I think they are going to walk on our backs…I would have been ok as my girl was tiny,buts Deb’s one was huge…luckily they don’t.
We then get a transfer back to the hotel where we eat,have a couple of beers then off to bed.
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