BODRUM | JEWEL OF THE TURKISH RIVIERA!
good morning everyone here from badrum turkey so we arrived here a few days ago and badrum is supposed to be one of the big beach destinations on turkey's mediterranean coast so we just left our hotel here asmin hotel pretty good hotel it's about 56 and it also has a pool includes a buffet for breakfast too outside we've got the cats as usual loads of cats down here isn't there yeah like those like over 10 cats every day yeah so carol found a really good location because it's super quite where we're at right now it almost looks like we're in some quiet little village doesn't it yeah it does and but we're not no we're not we're too close to all the restaurants and all the even the nightlife you can walk to like the main and party places in like five minutes or something but we can't sleep well because this area is kind of i don't know how to it's just very quiet secluded secluded but still close to everything and this place also reminds us of the other areas that we've been to in the mediterranean so in lebanon and greece you have like the whitewashed buildings and just the little alleyways like this looks very similar and this is why our location is good because within a minute walking you already get like a big restaurant area and this is one of the busy main streets here so this area here kind of just looks like your typical super touristy european beach destination kind of area they all kind of seem to look the same from what we've seen it does look like places in portugal right like albufeira and some other places too yeah yeah they always look similar got some almost like greek looking statues there so we passed this statue yesterday so this guy is very important so he's called mausolus and he was the king when the persians ruled this area the king of this area and this lady here artemisia is his sister and wife people were creepy back then yeah that's weird so when he passed away she became the ruler after him and back then it wasn't called bodrum called carrier not sure how you pronounce that even around here in the center there's like some historic looking bricks not even sure what that is that looks like a tomb okay that's funny just some historic tune in the middle of the square so we're going straight to the beach because it is insanely hot i don't think we've been anywhere this hot this year so far maybe just in oh man oh man yeah it was hotter i think but it's very hot we need to cool down yeah it's almost all man level feels like we're in a oven definitely need to go to the beach and this here is the shopping area it's a walking street goes all the way down the coast we walked yesterday it's a big area too isn't it yeah it was supposed to be a walking street but you still see the water cycle yeah there's loads of signs saying no like motorcycles but they just come down here anyway but yeah this is just uh non-stop stores and restaurants as carol mentioned before this place is very popular for the nightlife so yeah i can definitely see that this would be a thriving bar area all these buildings there are the bars seems like it's the bar street we haven't been down here yet the place to come i guess so yes it seems like a bit of a mix back there was the super touristy street but then you get some little alleyways like this that look more authentic nice little bars and cafes yeah this area is really cute so it looks like there's loads of nice options places to eat ah this is nice nice and quiet all of a sudden yeah jazzy music and then down this alleyway is our first glimpse of the beach some nice artwork there yeah i think this is the main beach area that we want to come to how the water looks beautiful place is jam-packed though ah there's some areas there where we can lie down with the towel it looks nice doesn't it yeah yeah just not a big beach but the water looks amazing yeah it's not very wide is it but these bars and restaurants look really cool good hangout spots and look at that epic castle there we're gonna be heading there after the beach later on one of the main attractions here all right i guess we just choose a spot we've walked a bit further up the beach now so this is an open area now there's no uh buildings right on the sand just this uh walkway and yeah once again just uh restaurants everywhere everywhere is a restaurant here it seems so here's where you get your sunbeds or you can even have a meal right on the beach if you want and yeah it looks like there are some open areas where you can still use your beach towels like us so the water on this side doesn't look as nice though it's like more of a a green color maybe we should head back to that first spot then yeah it seemed calmer there as well yeah it was uh it was not empty but it was not that bad too so maybe we go there working on his summertime yeah sleep when it's so hot yeah the other dogs are all in the shade back there so our spot's gonna be next to our doggo friend and that's the first dog that i've ever seen want to bake in the sun yeah the water is extra nice in this heat chilly yeah this beach is really nice like i said before i really like the cafes and restaurants there got some nice views either side as well the cliffs village goes all the way up there the whitewashed buildings and then obviously the the castle view cool beach to come to it's actually quite cold yeah it's good though it's better than the outside them yeah the outside's too hard and then inside it's a bit chilly yeah so i mentioned about the cool cafes and restaurants but there's actually places you can stay it seems like apartments that is the spot up there carol yeah but it's probably expensive definitely expensive but yeah the view and you've got like this awesome beach there's loads i can see loads of apartments on the top floors so now we know why doggo can fry in the sun he goes for a dip in the cool sea and then comes out here to dry off just keeps doing it going back and forth basically what we're doing yeah basically he's a human yeah he's a tourist but turkey so far just seems really awesome all the places that we've been istanbul was incredible kakadaki was incredible this place looks really nice as well and we're going to be going to some even better beach destinations than this area gonna be visiting quite a few we're gonna head all the way to antalya that's where we're gonna be leaving from eventually but we're gonna be stopping at loads of different like beach uh towns cities on the way it's gonna be good so we come to one of the restaurants right on the same beach that we were on some good views and the prices are really good here this is why we came here so you can get food as cheap as 80. and then the other dishes i think one around 100 yeah some really good prices what are you gonna get i think they're faster which is 50. you can get it with cheese rolls as well right yeah yeah i might get that yeah so 50 and 35 for spring rolls not cheese rolls so it turns out that they didn't have anything that we wanted but since we already got the drinks uh yeah we decided to get some other things instead so i'm going for donna on the rice 90 and carol got a lentil suit for 30 and the rolls here for 35. oh yeah and the iron is 10 and the coke is 15. i think this is one of the cheapest places that we've been in a long time for food yeah i think so but unfortunately they don't have many options for me it's been a bit of a struggle yeah carol doesn't eat meat and like everything is meat here yeah and at least the cheapest places they usually only have the meat options so i have to stick with the soup and the chili rolls because they have it everywhere here but if i need to eat something different more like western something a vegetarian option i need to go to a more like a first restaurant where they have international so we're going to enter the boardroom castle now really is a big castle i didn't realize it would be so huge just trying to find the entrance and look at the size of these boats here i think these are for the boat tours so you can do loads of boat tours around here along the coast go to some like secret beaches and stuff one of the main things to do around here so the entry fee for this place was a 150 pretty similar price to what we've been paying at all the spots in like cappadocia i think that that was always around 100 wasn't it yeah and i think even in galata tower and it's the pool was similar only the the museum that we went in istanbul was more expensive a lot more expensive a lot more but overall it's it's uh around 100.
uh the nice thing is up here there's a nice wind a nice breeze i really need that right now yes i guess this is the proper entrance i even almost got a little beach here in the castle and uh the cannons 18th the 19th century this time they even show you the the cannonballs whoa that's heavy i can't even lift it up that's how heavy it is i can't even lift up those little cannonballs oh are they that heavy yeah try and lift one yeah very happy it barely moved right so this castle was built in 1402 by the knights of saint john and their headquarters at the time was on rhodes island which is a greek island and because the ottoman empire was growing they decided to make a castle here for further protection but then in 1523 they were defeated by the ottomans anyway and then this became under control of the ottomans and this right here is the mosque inside of the castle so that used to be a church and then when the ottomans defeated the knights that became a mosque converted into a mosque and they added the minaret obviously the chapel of the castle constructed by the knights of saint john first built in 1406. so these remains here beneath the chapel or mosque these are actually from when the greeks were around here from around 300 bc and it was some sort of uh 40 45 walls interesting there's actually a skeleton there skeleton remains well check out this cool statue here so this is a sphinx i think it's a persian sphinx from 355 bc on this side you can see the wings really preserved that's a cool one so here there's some byzantine mosaics from the 5th century still super preserved so you get to see things from those of different periods around here we've seen greek ottoman from the knights and the byzantines and romans so in here there's loads of things that are way older than just the ottoman and byzantine periods this is bronze age right here it's over here it says that was around like 3 000 bc early bronze age so i got loads of like uh jewelry some more pottery always pottery this part that we're in now is an area that's been used as a storage room and these jars here they were found on a shipwreck a ship that sank in the 19th century and they all had uh wine in them so all these wine jars here wine's always been popular right yeah a lot of wine carol would like it so there's just so much to see here impossible to show it all but if you come here yeah it's going to take over an hour if you're gonna go into all the rooms they just have artifacts from all the different periods so the different people that were around here we get some epic views from this side so we were on that beach down there before and there's another beach over there we haven't been to that one beautiful view so there's loads of uh peacocks around here that one over there is huge isn't it the white one yeah i didn't even know you could get a white peacock some people were saying like alvino but i don't think it is the case is just like a white peacock so we're going to head to another beach now it's about a 10 minute drive from here so we're going to try and find a taxi point and head there and this is a bit more of the port area of badrum huge port i mean just hundreds and hundreds of boats everywhere i like the styles of the boat here as well the brown wooden style they're all like that we're just getting some much needed drinks before we head out i was going to get a water and i'm getting some fresh orange juice they have fresh orange juice all over the place in uh turkey so i ended up paying 70 for that i think in cappadocia it was 30 but too tired to negotiate right now we've arrived at the second beach here of the day this is called gumbet beach and the taxi just cost about 40 lira to get here that was just for a 10 minute ride but this beach is nowhere near as nice as the first one it's kind of like murky dark water it's not very clean as well there's loads of like cigarettes and uh plastic here but you get these three little umbrellas here so we're using one that gives you a bit of shade to avoid the heat but it's nice and windy on this side it's not like the other beach that we went to oh look at the size of that dog there go yeah i i was saying that here in turkey they don't have dogs they have bears yeah monster dogs he's coming for you whoa man that thing is huge extra furry too it's like you heard us talking about him yeah how cute it's a nice rug you got there yeah it's probably very hot yeah okay taking over yeah all right i guess we're adopting another beach dog today he's going to cool off he's going to sit all wet next to carol so we're going on a little height now we were just down there on that beach and we walked about 20 minutes up this hill here get some amazing views of both sides now so that's where we were earlier probably see the castle over there and we're going to the famous seven windmills of badrum right here even got some goats hanging out here i haven't seen any any goats around here today so far all the way up here near the windmills i don't know if there are wild goats or something i don't think so they have the bell but i don't see any farm or anything around here yeah check this out this is dinner time they're all eating the same tree so the windmills are a pretty similar style as well to the ones that we saw in greece or you can go in this one the old steps i'm not sure if you can explore the the other ones it seems to have a gate this one's more complete though has a roof and everything it's basically the same style as the ones that we saw around mykonos isn't it yeah yeah pretty much the same but uh over there they had the the blades i think yeah it's certainly an awesome spot to come for the views though that's why i read that it's good here at sunset also at night time they say it's beautiful at night time yeah you can see podrum completely from here the whole thing and there's a little bar here so you can get drinks and stuff not completely isolated but look at this one completely in ruins so these are all from the 18th century and they were operating until the 1970s so we're at the end of this uh peninsula now or whatever you want to call it there's even results all the way out here pretty fancy looking resort with a swimming pool and that out there is a greek island so that's cause huge island it's very close i think about 30 minutes you can get there they have fairies from bodrum there are ferries from badrum to a bunch of greek islands so yeah you can go between greece and turkey quite easily and you can see that island here the close one i think that belongs to turkey it's not a greek island but it looks uninhabited looks completely natural i can't see any buildings or anything and we are kind of tempted to jump to uh greek islands since the so close but so far the coast here seems a kind of similar experience to greece obviously different but yeah there are a lot of similarities so i think if you like greece you're going to like turkey and if you like turkey you're going to like greece so it's the next day now the battery died on the gopro so we couldn't film anymore but pretty much covered everything that we wanted to cover anyway and that's it from bodrum so we've been here four days really a beautiful place can see why it's a major tourist attraction and there's more things to do in bedroom there's some other historic sites there's a theater that's well preserved we didn't go because we've been to so many theaters lately and they all look kind of similar and there's also the mausoleum of mausolus however you say that guy's name the persian ruler that i showed the statue of at the start of this video and that is one of the ancient seven wonders of the world but it's heavily damaged now it's just basically rocks on the floor from what i saw in the pictures it was damaged by an earthquake and then the knights used some of the materials for the castle so it didn't really look worth visiting for us especially in the heat that's the main reason we didn't really want to be walking around historic sites in the heat but yeah we've enjoyed our stay here and we were planning on going to another big beach destination on the coast called mahmoud but we've had a change of plans we saw this other place called dalian that somebody mentioned in the comment section of our istanbul videos so we're going to go there instead because it looks completely different my mightiest look kind of like bodrum so yeah best to see something different instead if you like this video just drop a like to support us subscribe if you like to see more videos like this follow us on instagram and facebook and we'll see in the next
2022-07-21 19:01
