Hard to believe that we've almost finished 2/3rds of our time in Alanya. Things are getting so much more comfortable. Today we took another step in building our ability to be here. And by here, I don't just mean Alanya, I mean in any reasonably sized community in Türkiye. We used Uber/Taxi to get to a relatively far away place and then back. Spoiler alert - no problems.
I wanted to go back to the Fortress on top of the fortified city. I wrote earlier about the history of the fortified city. But, there was an audio guide to the fortress and I wanted to take advantage of that. As I said above, we got to the fortress entrance with a minimum of problem. We were there around 9:20 and there was no one else inside yet. So we had the place to ourselves. I made use of an audio guide that you get via an app. Sadly, I lost internet connection about a third of the way through. But I got the most important information. Then we headed down through the old part of the upper town toward a southern bastion and the cable car station to get us down. The cable car doesn't start until 9:30am. Most people don't make it all the way to the fortress because it is a pretty good hike up from the cable car. We made a good decision to go the other way. But man, there were a ton of people from about 10:30am on as we made our way to the station.
Down we went. We had a drink to cool off and rest. Called and Uber and had no problems getting home. A very successful outing.
Back in the Castle
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More Cats
Perfunctory Bird (not many of these...they are all probably cat food)
Don't want a cat? How about a goat?
The path down from the fortress to the upper old town and cable car
Ottoman era house
Elsewhere in the upper old town
Looking back up to the fortress
The cable car down
And
SIGNS OF THE WORLD
Don't plan on dying anytime soon if you have not been to Alanya
