I am grateful to be headed back to Turkey this year, where I will be kicking off the travel portion of a 9-week sabbatical.
Read the rest of this entry »This morning Onur and I finally woke after our epic 16 hour night of sleep, feeling great! We packed up at the hotel and caught a ride back to the Özays.
We packed up lots of Turkish food items, and other handcrafts for me to bring home tomorrow. Onur and Berkay went out to get us lahmacun (Turkish flat pizza) for lunch since we skipped breakfast.
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We woke up early to start on our seven hour journey out of Faralya and on to Gaziantep, Onur’s hometown.
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Okay, so here is my unfiltered opinion of the Shambala Lodge in Faralya:
The place is supposedly a yoga retreat, but is basically a collection of really poorly built cabins perched on a steep hillside, that seem to have been assembled and decorated by a bunch of 19 year-olds on LSD. They have someone good running their social media, and all photos are specifically angled to look far better than it actually is.
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I was so very sad to leave Kaş. It was just the most fun, most comfortable place we’ve been. Our next trip to Turkey will include a longer stay in Kaş for sure.
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Really sad to be leaving Kas tomorrow. I would gladly spend another week here.
Well today we all were a bit worn out from the late night of dancing. Lots of napping, some pasta salad for lunch, and coffee.
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Had a low-key day. Slow breakfast on the balcony, drinking real coffee (!) after finding some ground beans at the store.
Berkay had to work so Onur and I walked down to town to poke around for a bit.
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Thankfully our night out on the town didn’t hit us too hard, and we woke up to the most beautiful clear blue skies!
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Berkay found a bakery just down the hill and bought us simit (sesame covered bread rings) for breakfast on the balcony and it was delicious.
We hung out and did some laundry before going exploring by foot. It was fun to walk a little more to the edge of town but it got SO hot we had to hike back up the hill and cool down in the apartment.
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do all things with love 