We left Rhodes and headed to Fethiye to see the Lykian rock cut tombs, explore a museum, and to celebrate an anniversary and a birthday. Ann and I were celebrating our 37th anniversary on June 4th, and our guide and good friend Mel was soon thereafter celebrating a birthday. So, party first, explore later….. here are some shots from the surprise party on the boat! Here are the cakes!
As Marie Antoinette once famously said… ‘let them eat cake’. A good time was had by all. Even by the instigator of all this… our chef on the boat, who clearly has eaten a piece or two of cake himself in his day….:)
But, during the day wasn’t bad either. First the monumental tombs in the cliffs above Fethiye.
The Lykians were interesting folk. They had their own language and culture, and while they used some Greek letters in their alphabet they used other ones as well. I can’t really read most of their inscriptions.
What we know for sure about them is that they built monumental tombs….carved out of solid rock.
No this is not a Lykian trying to shore up one of these tombs, it is our friend Sarah Yeomans from the Biblical Archaeology Society.
And no, these are not Lykians either…. These are my buddies Mark Wilson and wife Dindy, Mark Fairchild, Levent Oral, Mel Chiftchi, and Ann and myself.
And finally, one of my favorite Turkish warning signs…
One might ask– how exactly are the tombs themselves expected to respond to this exhortation to them? I would have thought that was Atlas’ job who made the sign.
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