Lots of good input dudes... yeah, my original plan to rent a car in bodrum and circle turkey seeing all these sites doesnt seem to hold water... half the trip would be driving and not so interesting places... so, i think I will play this by year a bit, like ive been doing all across europe for 5 weeks now without any real problems.
Biggest take away: flights are pretty cheap in turkey and EU in general... I have a ticket athens to paris on the 15th only cause the return ticket was 20 euros more while the trip there was 230 euros. I bought a ticket from bodrum to paris on the 17th as an escape plan, lol, for 98 euros... maybe I didnt need to do that. I see bodrum to istanbul is pretty cheap and cappadocia to istanbul or bodrum is reasonable and vice versa... I hope the prices dont get insainely expensive the closer we get to flying. bodrum to istanbul is 104 euros usually it seems on expedia, and 124 euros for tomorrow flight... so that's not bad... you do that kinda thing in the us à 100 dollar ticket could end up as 800.
So here we are, définitive plan parts:
- santorini to kos to bodrum (6-6 1AM to 9AM) by ferry.
- rent car in bodrum or BJV, whichever is cheaper, on arrival... uber is only 15 euros (or somethings, lol) to BJV from bodrum. I guess 3 days with the car.
- drive to the travertine pools place of which the name I keep forgetting, stopping at the few sites the dude above mentions cause they look interesting and wont yet be ruined by the grandeur of Ephesus.
- drive to Ephesus and put an emphasis on Ephesus... sorry couldnt resist, im a dork.
- plan the next leg, most likely back to bodrum to drop car unless they let me do it somewhere else last minute and that is more convient to fly to turkey... or türkeahys if thats the new spelling... no idea how to pronounce it.
Tentative Plan parts:
- buy last minute one way ticket and fly to istanbul 3 or 4 days from bodrum or ephesus area. No car, ubers.
- buy last minute one way ticket and fly to Cappadocia for 3 or 4 days, rent a car, maybe try for a trip to nemrut via air or car.
- buy last minute one way ticket and fly to paris some how by the 17th, maybe through bodrum since i already got a ticket to paris from there or istanbul depending on cost.
Thoughts, fears, tips?
