Our bus/boat trip to Daylan

July 17th

So a relatively early day today (well for those of us on vacation anyway). Today we went on a tour to Daylan and for a swim in the Mediterranean. Daylan is located on the Daylan Vayi river that connects the Mediterranean Sea from a fresh water lake called Lake Koycegiz. You can get there from land or water and we did both. At 8:30 we boarded our bus for a one hour trip to the Lake where we then boarded a boat which took another hour to get to Daylan. 

On our way we stopped by the mud baths next to the lake. Getting dirty was never this much fun.

Getting into the mud baths

Before

During

After

Mud monsters on vacation

And our friends did the full face thing (Steve did the full dunk but didn't get a picture)

After the mud baths we headed up the river to Daylan. We didn’t actually get off the boat in Daylan but slowly moved through the river allowing everyone some photos of the tombs cut into the mountains above around 400 BC. 

Rush hour on the river.

One other thing also makes Daylan famous and it’s the local Loggerhead Sea Turtles. These fellas are big and have quite the bite so swimming with them was not allowed but we did get close to them on the boat.

And we did get to swim in the Mediterranean. I previously mentioned that I dipped my toe in the Mediterranean in Marmaris but apparently I was wrong as Marmaris is on the Aegean Sea. So this time we did get to enjoy the bath tub temperatures of the Mediterranean.

The day ended with the trip being done in reverse back through the lake and onto our bus home. we were also treated to some local fish and Blue Crab.

Note to tourists - Everyone in Turkey smokes!