Day 118 – Don’t leave anything on the bus!

Antalya to Goreme – Caravanserai Hotel

The bus for our trip to Goreme in the Cappadocia region left at 11am, with an expected arrival time around 8pm.At first the trip was uneventful, and quite enjoyable with the internet access and icecreams that were provided. There was a long break mid-afternoon at Konya, so we had some lunch while they moved the bus to a different bay.

A couple of hours after Konya there was another short break at Aksaray, which was where we witnessed one angry passenger remonstrating with one of the bus attendants outside. As it turned out, at some point during our break at Konya someone had stolen his laptop from the laptop bag which he had left on the bus, which he had only just discovered.

After some delay the bus headed off, then stopped about 10 minutes later at the Aksaray police station, where we waited for a further hour or so. At one point the police boarded the bus, made a cursory inspection of a couple of laptop bags near the back of the bus, but did little else.

The end result of this for us was about a two hour delay to our trip, which meant we didn’t get into Goreme until some time after 10pm. The owner of our hotel picked us up from the bus station, and once we’d settled in we changed into some warmer clothes (it was actually cold!) and headed out for a quick meal.