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With Oulash, our Turkish guardian angel
Gulets lined up at the harbour in Bitez
Harbour
the main attractionThe Back Streets of Bitez
If you can drag yourself away from the beach, do spend some time exploring the streets and lanes behind the beachfront in Bitez. The atmosphere here is a million miles removed from the restaurant strip and it's like visiting a whole other place. There are several residential roads with private villlas and small hotels many of them seperated by little groves of mandarin trees or olives. I was really thrilled to find these orange groves because I'd read about them before arriving and was beginning to think they didn't exist. The edges of the roads here are filled with long grass,wild flowers and the humming of insects. When you've walked the whole length of the road behind the beach you come to a signpost saying 'Chapel Walkway" and don't on any account miss it. Here you have a tiny, unpaved country lane which wends its way past old country houses and small farms, with pigeons, olive trees and fruit orchards. A step into rural Turkey and a reminder of what this peninsula was like before the rows of identical white villas colonised its hills.
