Iskenderun

On Saturday, we had the by now numbingly consistent Turkish breakfast of bread, tomatoes, cucumber and a hard-boiled egg, along wıth the Turkish tea (çay - which we have really learned to like).

We left Cappodocia and travelled for 6 hours by mini-bus to Iskenderun, which is on the coast near Syria. While this was our third crossing of the Taurus Mountains, the roads were generally very good wıth none of the excitment of the ride over the mountains from Pamukkale to Dalyan.

Iskenderun isn't really a tourist town (it is an industrial and port city of about 220,000), but we had a good hotel in the centre of the town. We had a wander around the town and had a look at the harbour and the shops. The town seems quite prosperous.

This was our last night in Turkey.