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Wild ride to the coast
In Denizli we find a moto service where we buy forks oil and we’re on to the seaside. Soon we get tempted by side-roads as we are not fans of big main roads. We continue through the cabbage valley from where GPS takes us to the road uphill. Soon the road becomes red tarmac and still going uphill. By this time road is still wide and all right and we meet quite some cars. The road takes us to the village, we ride through but after the village it becomes more and more narrow and looks more like a forest road. At places it is quite destroyed from water erosion with big stones on the way and it’s getting worse and worse. After a while we catch a man on the motorcycle with side-trailer and we feel relief, ok that must be the way somewhere. But unfortunately he soon turns in the forest and we’re on our own again. We continue and hope it doesn’t end as a blind way. After some hardly passable parts we luckily see a wide white tarmac road not so far below us. Some more turns and we’re there! We find a nice place among pine trees to put up a tent and have a good quiet and peaceful sleep.

In the morning we follow the white road and soon we’re on asphalt road again. Riding through beautiful hilly landscape full of colours, we come to the main road for Kas. The nature becomes more mediterranean as we descent towards the sea. The last kilometres take us right next to the rocky coast. It feels good to be at the seaside.

Kas
In Kas we stayed one night at Olympos camp (12 eur for a tent and 2 persons). At first we planned to stay longer but after we meet David from HUBB community (which we contacted in Pamukkale about our problems with forks), who generously invites us to stay with him and his wife Juliet for few days, we pack and follow him to Kasaba, where they have a beautiful home (hosting also 7 dogs and 6 cats) in the middle of nature. We had a really nice and warm stay with great company of David and Juliet and all the animals, which you simply have to love.
The next day we empty the bike and David takes us to a nice ride across Akdaglar mountains. It was really a marvellous trip crossing so many beautiful valleys and hills in the quiet and peaceful landscape. David knows this area very good and he takes us to the most beautiful places. We really have a good time and it’s so nice to be on a ride without all the heavy luggage.

We stay 3 days, would really like to stay more, because it’s nice to have some company to talk to after a long time and Juliet prepares such tasty meals. It’s like a little heaven, but we have to move on, so we say goodbye and head on.

Seaside
We stay on main roads to and past Antalya – it’s time we do some kilometres, for Turkey is big and so far we are moving really slowly. After we leave Antalya behind, we visit Koprulu canyon, quite nice although full of tourists. It’s popular for rafting and all the way along the valley there are restaurants offering rafting. We get a really good price (10 eur for both) for rafting so we do it, although we do not intend to at first.

Back to the seaside we find a nice little camp near Manavgat, about 15 km to the east. It’s just above the sandy beach, clean and quiet and cheap (8 eur for 2 persons). We stay here 3 days to fill up the batteries; we relax, swim, write our diaries and enjoy.