Environment
We drove along another beautiful,forested road today. Turkey has 33 National Parks, 16 nature parks, 35 nature reserves and 58 ‘nature monuments’ which are mostly protected trees, some as old as 1500 yrs. Turkey has improved it’s protection of the environment in recent years, aspirations to join the EU may have had something to do with this. The parks are supposedly protected and hunting is controlled, however sometimes the regulations are enforced in the parks but at other times the litter dropping public is ignored. Hopefully, the situation will improve in the coming years as Turkey really does have some stunning national parks to preserve for the future.
Package Tourism
We drove through the mountains for hours and eventually reached the coast and a little camping on a quieter stretch of coastline between the tourist havens of Alanya and Side. The Swiss owner has a pension overlooking the sea. We camped on her front lawn 20m from the sea and 10m up. All the mod cons were available and 2 huge dogs inhabitated the place. To Amber’s delight they had just had 8 new-born puppies which were 3 days old. And the father dog was named Thomas! We drove to Side to eat dinner and experienced the hoards of holiday makers parading their newly tanned limbs.
Package tourism, concrete and convenience are all here to stay in this part of Turkey.
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