Bike ride Southern Turkey 29-6

We're a happy bunch of cyclists -  14 Canadian, Brit, Scots, 3 Oz, all around 30-60. 2 gorgeous young Turkish guides and a cheeky driver, only one guide speaks English.  

We start and end at the coast, and pass all sorts of countryside in between. 

Most days have a hour or two of bus transfers with 50-70km riding up, down and along.  A couple of us more senior(!) ladies and several others opt to pop bikes on the trailer when the going gets too tough, then ride again later. One guy has a nasty off day 1 so we figure we're keeping his bandaged self company. 

Villages are like all over Europe, a cluster of houses surrounded by fruit trees and vegie gardens, with a tea shop, market and place of worship, though in this case they're mosques. 

Ladies slave in the potato fields - we see many poor old souls who can no longer straighten from this bent over position

Little markets sell fruit, veg, honey and dried staples (and bananas from Ecuador!)

 

The guides are all busy taking our photos