Today the castle was open, which also contains an underwater archaeology museum. It was a very interesting place to visit, though when we arrived it was closed for lunch – well, for everyone but the person manning the ticket booth, selling tickets that couldn’t be used until 1pm..
In addition to the various museum exhibits (mainly of artifacts extracted from various shipwrecks), we were able to walk around the castle, up onto the castle walls and into the various towers. One of the towers was the dungeon and torture chamber, complete with the medieval torture equipment that was discovered on site.
We also visited the tomb of King Mausolus (which is the origin of the word “mausoleum”). It was once of the seven wonders of the ancient world, but now there’s very little to see.
Our original idea was to spend three nights in Bodrum, but we decided that it was too touristy and there wasn’t that much to see, so we booked some bus tickets for a trip to Fethiye the next day.
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