We Didn't Expect Turkey to Look Like This! (Turkish Riviera)

Oh, here we go. I've been waiting for this moment. Welcome, everybody, to our official kick-off of our adventures in Turkey. If you guys missed our last episode, you would have seen that we flew all the way to Turkey over the last few days, and we are finally at our destination. And I am so excited to show you guys one of our favorite countries. And Turkey has just about everything beside your head. You might not even expect some of the places we find ourselves in. Mermaids definitely live here. From Fethiye to Kaş and even more places next week. There's just so much to explore. Don't you just love when it's the first day of your holiday, the hotel is unexplored, the activities are still coming up through the week and you have a fun day planned. That's always my favorite bit, the first morning and with the jet lag being up since 4 30. And then I could come down here and try and catch a glimpse of the sunrise here. I understand everybody, holiday is different to everybody else. But if there's one thing that I always do and it always brings me so much enjoyment is wake up before everybody else. Because look. We are here in October which I would say is the last kind of month of the season here in Turkey because it's just when the weather kind of turns as you can see but I would assume this beach is going to get packed later on in the day so it's nice just to enjoy and walk around while you absolutely have it to yourself. Also doesn't help um that where we're staying there's just coffee on tap. There are like 50 paragliders above my head right now like more than 50. I've never seen this many paragliders in the sky before. Are you kidding me? Is it picking it up? It is now. It is insane. It literally looks like an infestation. An infestation of paragliders here in Turkey. You guys are copying our trip. There is like an auto park they call it, like a car park. It's $17 for the day, but I don't think we have a choice. It's fine. We're pretty much going to be down here for most of the day. Bye-bye. Oh my goodness, here they come. That's awesome. Yeah, it's so close. Look at this. Do you guys want to do it? That was so cool! Welcome to Oludeniz. We pretty much drove about 40 minutes from where we're staying, and we've come to the beautiful coast here in Turkey. We decided for our first full proper day here, we want to go out on a boat, and as tempting as these insanely touristy Pirates of the Caribbean themed boats are, we thought, you know what, let's just book a private speedboat tour for our family. I'll leave the link below if you guys were interested. And we're going out for like, Four hours on the ocean today. We'll see if the weather changes at all I'm seeing I want less of this and more of this which hopefully it does by the end of the day And yeah, we're gonna go see some of the beautiful coast of Turkey just in our own boat We thought let's book this and have the best day ever Oh here we go! I've been waiting for this moment. This is so cool! Oh my gosh, look how clear the water is. It's called Blue Cave. The water is crystal clear. Crystal clear. Hunter, mermaids definitely live here. Look, daddy, down. What is it? I don't know. So clear. I'm mesmerizing those rocks. Crazy. So we do have a lot of stops on here, but we thought the blue cave just looked so incredible to go and swim around. Luckily, because the boat is ours for the next four hours, we just spoke to our driver and said, can we go for a swim? He said, yeah, why not? Which is so good. Here I go, you ready? Should I go see if there's mermaids? Oh, the water's warm. It's not that bad. Wait for it. Oh, Jess. I can stand. That looks incredible. The water's nice. Yeah? Yeah, that's warm. Yeah, it's not that bad. No. Go, go, go. You got this. We got this. Oh my god! Now, we're the mermaids. Ready? And kick. He went like this. Yeah. It's crazy how quiet it is. It's because Daisy Jones hasn't arrived yet. We've beat all the boats. We're at Butterfly Valley. This is like one of the most popular places to come out here and there is two other boats here. It reminds me of the time we were in the Philippines and we stayed so we got access to the national parks before the crowds. The perks of doing it by yourself. Yeah. Honestly, all the places we take this man, he's a very simple man. Just get him rocks, get him a body of water, let him throw said rocks into body of water. He is probably going to be sorted for the next hour that we're going to be hanging out at Butterfly Valley. As you can see, it's like this beautiful European inlet. Inlet, is that? Is that the sunshine I'm feeling? But yeah, our driver just literally just docked and said, wave me down when you want to go. He said, yeah, let's spend an hour here. Take it a bit slow, but it's so cool. Jess, I think I see the first pirate ship coming. I think it's I think it's starting to rain. Oh no! The water's actually so warm. Just embrace the rain. I am not, I'm freezing. Rain or shine, this place is beautiful. Oh man, look at that. That's the view there with the butterfly valley. It's so beautiful out here. Oh no, Jack has appeared. Jack's appeared. We can hear the music. Tana-nan-tan, tana-nan-tan, tana-nan-tan, tana-nan-nan. Kids are just having the time of their life and then I just start hearing this loud beat. Look what's coming. The first Davy Jones boat. It's coming. He's using pumping! You can hear it! Yes! Here it comes! Taking it all in when it was just us. Wait, after all the joking, we just realized it literally has Davy Jones's face on it. That is so funny. It looks fun though. Oh my gosh. We've come to one of my favorite places here on the coast. We came here back in 2018. It is called the aquarium and it is called that for a reason. The water here, even though we are having quite a cloudy day, the water is still crystal clear. You can see fish. I wanna get back in my swimsuit. You wanna get back into your swimmers? You girl. And then you can get back in your swimsuit. And we're jumping off the boat. My pinky promise, you have to hold my hand and jump off the boat. You gotta do it. I am not jumping. Dad, you have to jump off the boat. You're going to have the best memory you're older and you're going to be like, Dad, remember when we jumped off the boat? I am not jumping off the boat. Come on, dude. Jump off the boat. No, it cuts to her jumping off the boat. I'm starting to speak now. Oh my goodness, it's so warm. It's amazing. You're so warm. How is it so warm? There's a storm behind you. This is crazy. Alrighty, let me know if this is you. Whenever I'm making presentations, they are always like half put together documents, notes spread across like Dropbox, Notion, and... It doesn't look any good. So here's how you pull it all together with the all brand new Gamma 5 update. 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I definitely recommend if you're coming to this part of Turkey, you need to spend at least one day out on the ocean, out on a boat. We had a little look and you know those really big boats that we saw? Those are around 30 US dollars for the day to go out. We paid 60 US dollars to go out a day and we had a boat all to ourselves. For four hours, they gave us an esky that we filled with snacks and drinks. Radio was playing. You have your own kind of captain who drives the boat wherever you want to go. And because it was a bit rainy, we kind of just chased away the clouds. Every time we would come and swim, if it started getting a little cloudy, we would move on to the next place. And they just know the perfect little places that no one else is. Like, I cannot believe we had that aquarium all to ourselves. And I feel like that is my favorite swimming place here in Turkey. But, yeah, it was amazing. I've completely fallen in love with our resort. It is so nice. And the food, the food's the best bit. The buffet's here. Oh my gosh, the desserts. Last night was Italian night at dinner. They're like handmade, like ravioli at a buffet. It's so good. And look at the pools. It's unreal. I love it. I love it. It's a rainy day here, so we're calling it this resort. It kind of feels like we're on a cruise ship because it just has everything you need. There's even an app with events. So today because it is again another little rainy drizzling day we have two more days of rain and then the rest of our time in Turkey is going to be sunshine. We're still working out this whole turquoise blue thing but what essentially it is it's like all inclusive so there's like five or six different restaurants you can actually eat at. We're gonna work it all out. Tonight we've booked in one of their specialty dining which Because we're staying under four nights, we get to do one time included in our package, but most of the meals are at the restaurant and that's where we've been having like breakfast, lunch and dinner, but it's still so good. We're calling today a sea day. And we're gonna spend the day at the resort and like see everything it has to offer. But I'm excited. First up, buffet breakfast. Let's go. The buffet's so good. But here you can see my spread. Yogurt with granola, egg, mushrooms, grilled halloumi, grilled veggies. Like there is so much. Hunter loves his crepes. A whole pastry area. Oh man, the breakfast is, it even has baked beans because I feel like there's so many British people staying here. There are so many British people. And I've had so many like British people be like, this is my third visit. They were talking to a waiter who must have recognised them. Like, you're coming back next year? She's like, yes, I'm coming back in April. And it was like, wow. I think if this is such an easy flight for you, why wouldn't you come back? Yeah, what's the flight to London from here? I don't think it's very long. Yeah. It's amazing. We've been here for two nights and we have yet to even explore this area so we've come down past the pool that's all we've seen. There's a full kids club it's October here and it looks like they've got Halloween themed I see trick or treat on the wall and then I did see on the map that there were two slides and I was picturing like two little like baby slides is that what you were thinking? I think so yeah. And they're two huge slides, so fun. It's fun. Do you like? Aww. Oh, they're doing an Oktoberfest thing. Look over there as well. I know. What? They've got like beers and... I think they're doing like a whole event. Oh, we need to check the app. We need to check the app. Wow. See, we just worked out on the app. See, it's like a cruise ship where it has all the activities that you can do today. March. That's a lot for a hotel. And because it's rainy today. Rainy day excursion advice. It's literally like a cruise ship. It's like, I think if you need to change your excursion because today's a wet day, they like help you with all that. I see there's different things. Like right now, I see they do baby and tots club. And there's some activity going on right now where they'll watch your baby, which is kind of cool. But our kids are in the kids club. Quest for fun, it's on now. Okay, so the kids club is for three to 12 year olds. So both of our kids can go together, which is awesome. And they do all these like activities. It says you can do challenges, brain teaser games. And then what's for us? Yeah, they do free exercise training. Oh, that's cool. I'm gonna do that tomorrow morning. There's functional training on, toning band workout. That's so cool. And it's free. You just have to be over 16. Oh yeah, because it's Oktoberfest. Their lunch today is a Bavarian grill. So you can have lunch outside and they're cooking like a, it looks like a barbecue. That's so cool. Out on the beach. And I love how it says, oh yeah, Bavarian festival. It starts at 12.30. Get ready for unforgettable Bavarian celebration packed with good food, great music and a DJ. There's gonna be a DJ. They're doing an outdoor celebration. There's hair braiding stalls. Oh, what? What? That's crazy. They're Bavarian merch stalls. Are you going to go get yourself a stein? Does it feel good? Does it feel like I'm flying? That's so fun. . Yeah, yesterday you could have decorated your own stein. We are going down. Are you ready? At two o'clock after the Bavarian festival. . I think I'm ready? . Legs, bums and tums. Are you ready? . It's another workout. Are you ready? Table tennis competition. . Are you ready? What did you say? You could paint . . your own steins yesterday to bring to your Oktoberfest. . . . And then so the kids club it says it opens . . . from 10 to 12 and then 2 to 4. . . Um well we officially have no kids. . . Oh yeah. It does feel like a cruise ship. . I was like I want to go play with sissy now so we have an hour. . . . An hour, do you want to go get a coffee? Yeah, let's do a little coffee shop. I was like, is it too early for a cocktail? It's 11. Let's do coffee. Let's do coffee. A kidless coffee. I was like, this looks like a hobbit hole almost. What? Oh, I didn't realise that. How there's like grass on top. I was talking to the ladies inside and she said, now that it's October, they're all doing like Halloween crafting all month. But the room is huge, and there was a lot of kids in there too. Oh yeah? Yeah, Hunter was loving it. She ran up when she heard my voice and Ko was like, come down, and ran straight in. Cute. So cute. I don't think they do any like, open time, so we can't really show you inside there, but I assume it's fun. Chocolate mousse for free? Cookies for free? Is Gilmath, because we paid for this like, a month ago. It just feels free now. It feels free now. Oh, let's see what free coffee tastes like. Cheers. Cheers to a kid-free hour, and coffee. We are going on the water slides. We're going on the water slides. I didn't see anything about height, so let's see if Koaw can go on the water slides. But there's like four water slides here, which is so fun. Whoa, this is so high Koaw. You brave? Yes, I'm brave. And at that moment Koaw realized he in fact was not brave. Oh, my God. Oktoberfest. Yeah, we didn't need to go to Germany, we just got to go to Turkey. Look at the size of your head. That's a beer off. Ha ha ha ha! Oh, 64 weeks. Wait, wait, let me try, let me try. Oh, 50, what did you get? 60. 60, oh no, no, no, no. Oh, 100. Good morning everybody, welcome back to Turkey. Our road trip is continuing. We sadly are saying goodbye to our holiday relaxing resort and we're now heading towards Kaş. It's about two hours. We're essentially gonna be making our way further along the coast. Final destination is Antalya. But that's days away, we're going to enjoy as much as we can see over our little road trip. Isn't it beautiful? So we've been driving for about an hour and a half and we've just arrived in Kaş and oh my goodness, that drive was so beautiful. Basically, for most of it, we're driving along the little cliffside right next to the Mediterranean Sea. It looked so beautiful. You just see all these little tiny scattered beaches where people have just gone and spent the day. This place looks gorgeous. We're about two minutes away from our hotel. And I cannot wait just to jump into the sea. That's my plan for this afternoon. Trying to work out how to get to our hotel. I feel like we're gonna go down a little steep hill now. Oh my goodness. You got this. I got this now, it's coming out. Just don't think about that. Oh, okay. That's tomorrow's problem. Oh, it looks so beautiful though. Oh my gosh, I can't believe people, you know, this is what they can call home. Like this is just their view every day. Oh my gosh, here we are. Guys, we were just looking at the footage of checking into this beautiful place and we realized the entire thing you cannot hear us but if you watch back at the footage you will see. How much we were excited to check in here. It is absolutely beautiful. So I needed to jump in here to show you. I was like, we can't check into a place like this and not show you. It is absolutely gorgeous. My favorite bit is we are right on the Mediterranean Sea and the sea here is so warm. We had the best swim yesterday, but this place is called Club Barbarossa. Just look how stunning it is. We were saying yesterday when we were checking in, it felt so rustic and almost authentic staying here. So here we have a double bed. Two single beds for the kids and a bathroom so it's like perfect for families with this huge outdoor area and you'll see what I mean about rustic like we have a cute umbrella but um it's only going to shade you for like you know half of the day. That's okay. It's so cool. It's such a coastal place. We literally were walking down here and the little gentleman was taking our bags down. You see here it's like a railway and they've kind of built so they can get I suppose housekeeping supplies down to the like bar at the front but it's very cool just like walking down here and the crazy thing is it's like 130 euros a night which is For what we are experiencing is such a bargain. Of course it's rustic, but it adds to it. It's almost like a palette cleanser from Dewey Blue from our last resort because like we're just on the coast. We have insane views. Yeah, our room is like really cool. We've got this like family, I think they called it like an elite room is the like classification, but this is what I'm meaning. But this like awesome outdoor hot tub, does it work? No, it doesn't. Does it need to work? Probably, but it's fine when you turn around. And just look how insane. We've been having the absolute blast. It is reminding me why I love this part of the world. Turkey, Greece, all of that is just incredible. And we've completely fallen in love with Kaş. Like if you're coming here, you need to come to this town. Absolutely gorgeous. We have literally an olive tree right in our room. There's some olives you can pick over here but we can't pick them up. What's a tree like that? I don't know if you can. You don't think so? Don't they have to like put them in a pot or something? Maybe. I don't know how you prepare olives. Ah! Sorry, stop! This water looks so clear like an aquarium. Wow. Whoa. Woo! So nice. Wow guys, this is absolute paradise. Seriously, the water is salty but... it's fine like it's almost like you can float a bit more like you're not putting so much effort in swimming so you can kind of like bob around but look at this place behind us oh i've seen the blue skies i am so excited for the next few days this is incredible look at it hi hi mama We're bobbing. We're bobbing. We're bobbing. We're bobbing. Good morning, what a place to wake up to. Also we are learning a lot of Turkish words because here at the hotel they barely speak English. So Stephen was able to get a coffee. If you want milk in your coffee? Coffee? Süt? Süt? Yes we got süt. We got süt. Süt? Süt? Look at this view. Oh my gosh. This is gorgeous. So nice. We woke up I think because we're in a valley. There wasn't really a sunrise. It more just like lit up but it was still beautiful. Not even now. I think we're still waiting for the sun to like peek up from the valley. Oh my goodness, it looks so beautiful. Hanta, how do you say milk in Turkish? Soot. The breakfast is really cool, Stephen. It's like a super Turkish breakfast. They've got like, you know, the cucumbers, tomato, all the cheeses. I feel like, do you reckon this is Turkish? They're these little rolled up thingies. I don't know. Is it a spring roll slash crepe? I don't know what it is, but there's a little area down there where they've got a wood fire oven and you can just order pie, like fresh, pie day, the bread. They've got an omelet station there. You need to go check it out. Yeah, it's down there. And they've got Turkish tea, so I need to grab that too, but very cool. Alrighty, found the Turkish tea. Come on, that means it's a good one, right? We are currently on a laundry side quest, looking for our laundry place that we found on WhatsApp. You know what, they're actually so good on WhatsApp in Turkey. It says we're here. Yeah. I like how Stephen's parked us next to some rotating chicken. Don't, I know, don't judge how much laundry we've already got. This is too much. Best souvenir is the Disney Cruise Line. What? A laundry bag. Oh my god. I said, pick up today. It's nine. Pick it up at four. I said, I'll just get it tomorrow. 600 Turkish lira. For all of that? 17 Aussie dollars. Wow. Good side quest, I think. Good side quest. That's a good request. All right, so this morning, we want to go and explore the old town of Kas. And if you have a car, we found the best place to park is actually at the harbour. There are so many boats that come up here. I'm pretty sure, I can't exactly remember, but I think last time we were in Turkey, we did a few days on a boat. And I feel like we came here and checked out Kas. Yes. I think. I think so. I think. And so, yeah, we're at the harbour, and you can just see there's all these boats. I feel like another cool way to come and explore the coast is via boat. They do three, four, seven-day... trips we just go from town to town which is pretty awesome but let's go explore and you know one thing i want to do for the kids they haven't seen how the turkish do their ice cream they'll find that so funny Hey everybody, welcome to Kas. We thought it was Cass for the longest time, but there's like that little umlaut that makes it an S-H sound. But this is pretty much like a town that's 2,000 years old. And what's really cool is you can actually technically see Greece. There's a little island, about six kilometers. It's like a seven minute ferry ride, but we find out it leaves at 9.30. It doesn't pick you up till four. So it's kind of like your whole day's at the island. It looks stunning. It looks beautiful, but because this is our only day in Kas, we're like, oh, are we sacrificing like... a whole day to go there but it's a really beautiful old town super beautiful old town it is connected to a port so i feel like the majority of people that are coming here are either on like a yacht or a boat trip and then they head out backwards to Fethiye where we were or head on to like Antalya. If you guys were interested this is where we essentially flew into to Dalaman and then we were staying around the Fethiye area that's where we were at the Tui Blue and now we've driven All the way down to here. And then we are going to end up in the next video up here. How adorable are the restaurants here? Like it's not lunchtime yet, but they are so cute. Little colorful chairs everywhere. It's like there's these little alleys with just lined with little shops and little restaurants. But it's the cutest little town. And I also like it cause there's no cars. So you can just like freely roam around. Oh yeah, it's like 10 30. It's pretty dead. Let's go have a look. Do you want it? No, Koaw, this is how they do it here. You'll get it now, look. Where are you going? How are you going? Huh? What happened? There it is! Oh no! Koaw is mad! Oh no! There you go. You got this. What's your cheeky view? Come on. There you go. Thank you. Thank you. I got angry. I can't go on. Koa is what we all think when we order an ice cream in Turkey. But the kids haven't seen what they do when you order an ice cream in Turkey yet. Hunter, was that crazy? Do you want to try, Cole? No! Cole is still mad. Cole is still mad. I wonder if they've ever had that before. In defiance, he literally scrunched his empty cone. Cole is over it. Oh, hello, Danny. What's this? The one time I liked sugar. Hunter's favorite drink in all of Turkey. Freshly squeezed. They do it the best here. Oh my gosh, the bread is warm. The bread is warm. Look at all these dips. This is the best. Yum. What have we even got? I don't even know. I'd have said to the waiter, just you choose what we should eat. And this looks great. And it looks like it's like just freshly cooked bread. So what other dips do we have here? Is it tzatziki? Eggplant. Eggplant. Hummus. This is like a spicy tomatoey one. I've had an olive. You've had an olive? I tried an olive and it was good. But the bread, the Turkish bread is so good. At breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's dangerous. He recommended the sizzling prawns. They're sizzling. Oh my gosh, it smells so good. Yeah, Koa, it's because this plate is so hot, it's sizzling. Yes, it's bubbling. It's bubbling. Does it look good? Yes. When I'm grown up, I'm going to taste that. When you're grown up, you're going to taste that? Yeah. I don't know. I'm making a special dinner for mum. Koa, question. Did you want to go get more ice cream from the ice cream man? Me? You don't want any? He's so mad about it. He's so mad about it. You don't like him do you? No. There's no ice cream. Yeah, no ice cream ever again? Yes, and we have to not go to a man. We won't go to the man. We won't go to the man. All right, we are ending our day on a little bit of a sunset mission. We have heard that there is this beautiful amphitheatre, which is a perfect spot for sunset, and it is so old, older than the Coliseum. We read it was 2,400, I think, years old. Can you believe that? And we can sit in a 2,400... 100-year-old seat to watch the sunset. Thought it sounded like the perfect way to end our time here in Kash. Look at this. This is the spot to be. Everyone's up here. I feel like the sun's gonna go down in, like, 10 minutes. I feel like we timed it perfect. Good job, Hunter. Still got a bit more sun. You can tell they've, um... Renovated it. Renovated it and they've actually put a stage in, so I think they come and do, like, concerts here. Yeah, that'd be sweet. I was saying, Hunter, imagine coming here and watching a concert and someone was down here singing and playing music and we could all watch. Because that's kind of what they used to use it for. It used to be a theatre, but you know what? It probably went, do you think it was kind of like, it would go in a big circle, right? Oh, potentially, yeah. I feel like that's probably what it used to be like. But because this half has fallen and they fixed it, then it kind of worked out because then you got a view of the sea, the sun. It's crazy to think that this is older than the Colosseum. Wow. All right. Alrighty everybody, hope you enjoyed our first little episode here in Turkey. We have about 10 days in Turkey. It was like a short little trip. So we're trying to squeeze in as much as possible. Tomorrow we are heading to Antalya for our final stop in Turkey. So if you are new here, please hit subscribe and we're excited to show you the next place we're heading to. See you guys.