Day 14 - We caught a bus to Harran and wandered round the place. It was hot and dusty and I could not imagine how people can live there especially in summer when the temperatures get up over 50 degrees. It seemed a very poor place but apparently they are quite wealthy there due to the GAP project which has enabled the desertlike conditions to be cultivated. The attraction of the place is the bee hive houses which are only found here, in one place in Syria and in Puglia in Italy. We made our way to group of bee hive houses which had been made into a small museum showing how people used to live. I wasn't feeling the greatest but managed to walk round the castle. This little town is only 16 km from the Syrian border and people were talking Arabic unlike in Sanliurfa only 50 km away where Kurdish is spoken.
Back to Sanliurfa for a final walk around the town. Ridvan turned up with the two Australian ladies we'd met at Karadut.


We filled in time till we caught the bus to the main bus station and I was asleep before the bus left and slept solidly all the way to Adana (6 hours). Sue was very impressed as the TV was blaring and the young man across the aisle was constantly texting. Our flight to Antalya was uneventful and we booked into a very nice pension and headed to the beach were I slept on a sun-lounger and swam in the beautiful sea.

The next couple of days were spent seeing friends and it was with a very heavy heart that I left Antalya and returned to the cold and wet to England. Roll on 19th April when my overland trip starts.