We have a big drive today - 265 miles - with a brief stop at around the midpoint (the "heart")
Around Marmaris, we spot a New York State vanity plate - what the hey?
A brief stop to score our one and only Turkish microbrewery. We almost weren't able - the manager was out of town and thus they were closed, but a worker (his wife?) let us in, and allowed us to take a box of ten brews for about $30.
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We're more than 90% to our end town today, and make one more brief stop, in Bodrum.
"The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria.
The Mausoleum was approximately 45 m (148 ft) in height, and the four sides were adorned with sculptural reliefs. The Mausoleum contained 400 freestanding sculptures. The mausoleum was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph that Antipater of Sidon identified it as one of his Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was destroyed by successive earthquakes from the 12th to the 15th century and was the last surviving of the six destroyed wonders (Pyramid of Giza remains). Its broken remains and foundation were rediscovered in the 1850s.
The word mausoleum has now come to be used generically for an above-ground tomb."
Yes, it's very much destroyed:
"The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria.
The Mausoleum was approximately 45 m (148 ft) in height, and the four sides were adorned with sculptural reliefs. The Mausoleum contained 400 freestanding sculptures. The mausoleum was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph that Antipater of Sidon identified it as one of his Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was destroyed by successive earthquakes from the 12th to the 15th century and was the last surviving of the six destroyed wonders (Pyramid of Giza remains). Its broken remains and foundation were rediscovered in the 1850s.
The word mausoleum has now come to be used generically for an above-ground tomb."
Yes, it's very much destroyed:
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The actual tomb chamber:
Original steps down to the inner tomb chamber floor:
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On the way back to the car, we find a grand old fig tree, and get somebody to cut the cheese.
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Dinner is served on Melengeç Beach.
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A nice boat comes into the harbor right at sunset.
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