Sights of Selcuk

As soon as we had settled in at our hotel, we went out to explore the town of Selcuk - I think it has a population of about 25 000 if I remember rightly, just a small town.

Corba lunch

Just down the street a little we found a little family restaurant where we could get some corba (soup) - our favourite lunch.



Ducks?

A little further along we saw some of the ancient Aqueduct constructions.




These seemed quite remarkable to us, but to the local people they would be no more than a mild annoyance.



There seemed to be no explanation for this part of the structure. In the centre of the town where there is a continuation of the aqueduct they have built the town square around it.



The Old Mosque

A little further down we came across the Isa Bey mosque - another ancient building - but we are disinclined to wander through endless mosques, no matter how old they are.



Even this time of year there was a tourist bus bringing sightseers here. And so, of course, all the little tourist stores were nearby to catch the trade. I decided to drop in, and I actually bought a couple of pretty scarfs - and at a better price than our colleagues had done in Istanbul.



Bath Time?



Apparently this fascinating-looking structure is an ancient Turkish bath, or Hamam. The guide map said its always open, but it didn't seem to be. We live in Hamam Sokak (Street) in Istanbul, but still neither of us have ever seen a Hamam, or Turkish bath. So we have no idea how this thing would have worked. We saw (from the outside) a similar up-to-date working (well, smoke coming from chimney) building like this in the town centre ... But, I dunno?

Dinner



So then it was time for dinner in the hotel. Our table was next to this fish-pond with fountain, but they only had the fountain working once while we were there.