Konya to Antalya

Monday morning after breakfast we walked the Konya neighborhood in which our hotel was located (downtown basically) and we both agreed we really liked it.  A regular ordinary city with no tourists (except for our bus of 27).  No monuments, no fantastic sites. Just people doing regular stuff.  If we had a day to spend there, it might have been fun to go get a shave, find a cobbler to repair Cathy's broken shoe strap and the like.

 To get to Antalya on the Mediterranean coast we drove over the Taurus mountains.  Near the summit we visited a large cave (2nd biggest in Turkey).  It was tall and broad and deep, but lacked the interest of other caves (stalagmites e.g.).  After walking to the end and turning around, I had a bout of dizziness.  Great, 20 minutes walk to the exit and I couldn't move.  Knelt for a few minutes, and slowly came back to normal.  Nothing serious, I think all the ups and downs and darks and lights got me a little disoriented.

 

After a trout lunch we finished the drive to the warm coast.  In the evening we had a short walk through the old town down to the shoreline (where we had some stuffed mussels from a sidewalk vendor), followed by a fish dinner back at the hotel.