Turkey Day Four

Today we visited the ruined cities of Perga and Aspendos as well as taking a walking tour of the old town of Antalya, where we are staying. The stadium of Perga has been overrun with tortoises! We saw four in all and it was a bit funny to watch them "hustle" away from us, as turtles are not exactly the swiftest of foot (claw?). The highlight of Aspendos was the theatre but we also enjoyed a tour of the acropolis as it was ignored by most of the tourists owing to the trek up a hill in the (36 degree) heat. After the tour of ruins, we had a wonderful lunch of fresh trout by riverside and then it was off to the archeological museum in Antalya which had quite a few nice pieces including the sarcophagus side pictured herein. We finished at the museum around 5pm and took an hour walking tour of the old city before dinner with Kemal at a local kebab place where we feasted on all sorts of different Turkish kebabs. Now we are watching the Eurocup Poland vs Russia game in our hotel room but will soon be off to bed (the heat takes it out of you!) before our trip to Pamukkale tomorrow and its famed thermal springs.