No Turkish necessary. The gate was closed with tape and for the briefest moment I thought about sticking my head in.
This was a tomb. After we left the theatre, our guide (Cen) and the driver pulled what they thought was a trick on us...
This tomb is inside a supermarket. They laughed and laughed when they took us inside because they had not told us what we were going to see.
And this old (about 2,200 years) tomb is in back of the loading area of the grocery store.
This plain looking wall is reconstruction of one of the walls of Halicarnassus (what a great name). Halicarnassus (Ancient Greek: Ἁλικαρνᾱσσός, Halikarnassós or Ἀλικαρνασσός, Alikarnassós; Turkish: Halikarnas) was an ancient Greek city at the site of modern Bodrum in Turkey. It was located in southwest Caria on a picturesque, advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf. The city was famous for the tomb of Mausolus, from whence we get the word mausoleum, built between 353 BC and 350 BC, and one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It was part of the Persian Empire until captured by Alexander the Great at the siege of Halicarnassus in 334 BC.
The space between the walls was once where a great gate was placed. But the big gate was a trick. Once the enemy broke in, they were caught in a crossfire from the walls on 3 sides. the real gat was too small to let a large number of people through.
A slot for the gate.
This is where the smaller, stronger gate stood
The smaller gate was here.
Kemal Attaturk -- the first President of Turkey. The inscription reads "Peace at home, Peace in the world."
Did we suddenly get transported to Don Quixote's Spain? No, but these were once windmills on one of the hills of Bodrum
Note the camel for tourists. These windmills still worked in the early 1900s
Looking down on one of the many resort hotels that dot the shore. Cen told us a funny story about Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (look it up) which he says happened right where that hotel is located.
For fresh water storage.
Bodrum has shipyards which are famous for their wooden boats.
Another place with earthquakes. I guess we can't live here.
