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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Cleopatra island

Yesterday Turquoise Diaries was on her first daily tour of the season on the Turquoise Coast of Turkey. As it is customary here, we have joined a daily tour boat and went to Sedir island or also known as Cleopatra İsland. The first picture is from here.



What is famous with this island is its very small and unique beach. Story goes that Cleopatra had brought this sand from Red Sea for her sun baths but in reality it is a very rare and organic sand made from sea shells where each grain of sand is a perfect sphere. Nowadays its forbidden to enter the beach as well as to remove any sand from the island.



Island is also an open museum. Dorians are its first inhabitants. Later the island saw permanent settlements in the Greek, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine areas. After a cooling swim just like Cleopatra, I spent happy hours walking around the ruins.


And here is a picture of me at the boat taken with the camera of my 7 year old niece. She thinks she is a great photographer but as you can see she definitely needs some training :)) Well, her excuse was very simple and concrete ' but the boat was shaking...'



















10 comments:

  1. The Turquoise Coast of Turkey. Wow. It looks amazing. I want to go there! I'm putting it on my bucket list. Turkey has always been up there, but thanks for introducing me to Cleopatra Island!

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  2. Your photos bring me back to my trip to Greece in 06 and the island of Delos ~ sigh! Loved that place, and your photos are wonderful! Your niece is too cute, you are in focus!

    Thank you for stopping by my little blog! It's great to "meet" you!

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  3. These pictures are breathtaking. thanks for sharing

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  4. How amazing the colour of that water is..

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  5. I think your neice is a wonderful photographer!! what a beautiful site and a great history lesson!!! Thanks for stopping by my site and for your kind words...looking forward to more history and cool stuff from you!!!! :) KIM

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  6. Wow - your pictures are amazing. What stunning scenary. Love the picture that your neice took (and great excuse!). Enjoy your travels...

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  7. Amazing pictures! and what a beautiful island... I don't know that part of the world but I cannot die before going to that turquoise sea...

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  8. Whoa! breathtaking view of the Island.. so green, so beautiful..picturesque. Those trees remind me of a beautiful park we had near our home..I spent a lot of my summer holidays in the park.. lots of memories associated.. will post the pics of the park sometime soon :) keep enjoying...

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  9. Aaah love those photos the island seems so peaceful wish I could be there right now slashing in the waters

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  10. It has really intrigued me, thank you for such an interesting travel suggestion.

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