The next day we anchor out in a quiet bay just north of Dallion. In the morning, a small flatbottom boat picks us up right from the boat and takes us through a maze of reeds. And just like a mouse searching for a piece of cheese, at the end of the maze we are rewarded with a crumbling old Lycian ruin of a town. This once great city built on the waters edge has long ago been abandoned and left for nature to silt up her harbor and wear away her once grand stone buildings.
The boat continues up river to the town of Dallion. Across from the town are the royal Lycean tombs of once great kings carved in the solid rock cliffs. They look like monumental building with strong Corinthian columns and pendentive doorways. It is a very nice resting place. I am reconsidering a simple grave marker for when I die.
We stop for a nice traditional lunch and relax to enjoy the crowds and shops of the local merchants. Then we board the boat again to continue up river to the healing mud baths. If you are feeling that you have read this before, it is because we were here two years ago. It is a fun outing and we wanted to share it with our traveling guests. We all had fun coating our bodies with thick gray mud and then letting it dry in the sun. The healing powers speak of taking twenty years off of your life. Since today is my birthday, I feel like it would be a perfect time to look 20 years younger. I might even try a second coating.
We got back to the boat in the early evening. I cooked a Thai dinner of vegetables with sweet and sour chicken. The guests surprised me with a little birthday celebration along with a tart pie lit with the traditional birthday candle. Thanks, it was fun celebrating with you. The next day we dropped everyone off at Marmaris so they could make their flights back home. We stay for a few days getting things cleaned up, refueling and hanging out.
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