[21/12/17]
After a few days of chilling in Diyarbakir I tried to leave the city by hitchhiking (unlike iranians, turks know what hitchhiking is). However, I was unsuccessful at that and the only vehicle that stopped for me in 1.5 hours was a bus.
So I was using buses from then on, not being in the mood to wait for hours again. As soon as I left Kurdistan it became much less interesting but the police relaxed as well, which is definitely a good thing.
Since then nothing worth mentioning was happening to me (well, except that one time when I got approached by an undercover cop in the bus terminal in Antalya, with whom I was very rude, thinking he was a scammer) so I will summarize the last days. I passed Tigris and Euphrates and made it to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.
Currently I am in Antalya which is exactly what you'd expect a resort town to be. A pleasant place, but boring, not even one battle helicopter flying at night, so lame...
Anyway, near Antalya there are some very comfy and beautiful places called Olympos (ruins of an ancient city) and Çıralı village, which is also extensively used by tourists, but now it's the low season so nobody is there.
I hitched a few cars to get there and it was quite easy, I guess I was just unlucky the last time.
And close by Olympos there is a place called Yanartaş, where perpetual fires burn, nearby a ruined temple of Hephaistos. These are the natural gas vents that's been burning for hundreds of years already.
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