The location, Environment and sights were beyond amazing. They were even breath taking on a few occasions. The beauty didn't stop coming. The mountains, the exotic and exquisite flowers, even the bugs. - Apart from that horribly huge spider, about the three times the size of your hand, scuttling at 105mph past you. losing it was a nightmare. The fact that it was outside kept us at ease, a little.
The mountains. I could say so much about this one particular mountain that we drove up. Yes, we went in a little, old car. The car appeared to be struggling, I'm not surprised due to the way my mother's boyfriend manhandled it.
So, imagine the biggest cliff near you and driving up a road on the edge of it. That's what we experienced. A near death moment. This was horrific for me and my mother, we are not and defiantly never, ever going to be adrenaline junkies. I'm even surprised now that we lived through that. The roads were so small and narrow that it seemed only three quarters of the car could actually fit on the road without struggling. Peering over the edge felt too dangerous to me, setting the car off balance could make us plunge to our deaths at the 3000 foot drop. No, the road didn't even have a fence. - not that that would make much difference. - Winding around the cliff edge felt so horrible, it even brings a nauseating feeling to me right now. Was it worth all the trauma? I would have to say yes. The sights were something you couldn't begin to imagine. Seeing the neighboring villages and cities in the near by valleys felt like something I can't even put into words.
After all the drama of getting up the top, having a look around and having tortoise that the stray dogs had brought to us and left by our feet, expecting us to throw them like sticks so they could retrieve them. We drove back down the mountain. Me, sitting on the inside as far away from the edge as possible helped me feel a little at ease.
However, at the end of the road near the bottom my mother and her partner had swapped. This was so my mother could drive around for the first time in Turkey. - She didn't have her licence abroad. - Slowly she turned us into our little villas driveway. It was so long and bumpy. Saying that my mother had been speeding down the driveway until her partner shouted at her to stop. Forcing her foot on the break and almost giving us all whiplash we came to a stop. He jumped out the car, obviously seeing something we had not observed, with our limited brain function after the trauma of the mountain roads fiasco and curiously my mother and I emerged. We soon discovered a massive tortoise in the road. It was only about the size of a kitchen table and my mother didn't see it.
