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Turkey: Didyma

	Journal entry: 17 Sep Monday � Bodrum � Kusadasi Up around 8. Beautiful, still cool, morning for breakfast poolside. Took off around 9, driving up the coast, with several stops � Letmos lake, formerly part of the bay, but now mostly freshwater. Stopped for tea. Then also, along the road where there were honey sellers. Great pistachios, too . Local honey & nuts vendors, Bodrum, Turkey Rowboat, Letmos Lake, Turkey
	On to Didyma, at times on a really poor road. Built between 750 and 550 BC this is the second largest Apollo temple (after the one at Delphi). Doric Present site features reconstructions from Hellenistic times 4^th c BC, uncovered just over 100 years ago. Doric columns originally of marble, some of the restorations used a marble paste in molds to form the fluted rims.
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	Drove on, past cotton fields, with migrant workers just setting up their tents. Lunch in the cotton manufacturing town of Soke (SIEUR-key) � past a tea house packed with men doing little but watch us pass. Pide, kebabs and lamacun for lunch. Then another � to the Hotel Ozcelik in Kusadasi Pretty sunset, then watched bats flying around catching (hopefully) mosquitoes.


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