Day 122 – Now it’s getting a little bit too hot…..

Antalya - Sibel Pansiyon

Our accommodation is in the delightful Old Town area of Antalya and the streets are beautiful clean cobblestone rabbit warrens with the sea surrounding the old town on two sides. The whole area is very pretty and the sea some of the clearest we have ever seen, but boy is that sun hot!

After visiting Hadrian’s Gate and deciding it was too hot to continue walking around in the open we caught a tram to the Antalya Museum. Once again beautiful exhibitions and statues but it seems such a shame that the statues are in the museums so close to each other, now we’re almost "statued out". They would look so fantastic in their original places where they were found amongst the amazing ruins – but of course it is not practical to leave them there, and they are kept inside instead.

What was interesting here is how many of the pieces had been smuggled out of Turkey and then recovered, and that there are still museums in the US and the UK holding on to these illegally acquired pieces instead of returning them.