A PRIVATE BEACH CAMP in TÜRKIYE! 🇹🇷 - Australia to Scotland by road - Episode 89

The google search time paid off and this secluded hideaway turned out to be a real gem. During the day tour boats would flock in though come afternoon they would begin their migration home and we would be left alone, in peaceful isolation, with no reception, feeling a world away from everything and everyone.
We had set up camp under a big shading tree right on the edge of the sand. As night fell a beautifully dry onshore picked up and gripped us in a warm embrace. Two young men in uniform and looking somewhat official pulled up on the beach in a rigid inflatable and made the walk up to our spot. They were a little puzzled to see the Troopy, and probably non Turkish people here, though a few quick questions about what we were doing and where we were from and they were on their way, not before heading to the end of the beach to draw love hearts in the sand and take selfies ha! We think think they were the Coast Guard doing their evening patrol. Perhaps they have a problem here with drug runners or immigrants? Not sure. We were startled awake however in the middle of the night by another visitor rustling and grunting in the adjacent bushes. Hitting the roof top spot lights revealed something more startled, a big healthy looking boar. He was of decent size, full grown, and probably not used to visitors. He froze like a deer in headlights before quickly scurrying off into the shrub.
The sky was cloudless and the water glistened in the morning light. After the morning coffee routine we hit the water and managed a couple of hours of calm enjoying our own private beach before the boats begun to arrive. The tourists all appeared to be Turkish and were having a great time. We sparked up a conversation with one of the older boat captains as he came onshore to tie up his boat. He suggested I was wasting my time the previous evening taking the speargun out in search of dinner and confirmed my suspicions there wasn’t much left around these parts.
Explaining to him about where we’d come from and where we were going a glint of envy came into his eye. He almost hopelessly explained his life situation, how he had his kids that had now flown the nest, and now all he did was work on his boat, and dream of something like we were doing. There’s been several moments like this when talking to people in different countries which, not only gives a profound appreciation for how fortunate we are at home with job prospects and high wages, though also a slight sense of sadness that innocent, friendly people like him, although I’m sure very happy in their respective lives, can’t have the same experiences we have the freedom to pursue.
As midday etched closer, so did the tour boats so we packed up the Troopy and made the slow and bumpy journey out of the hidden beach valley, around the headlands, and back to the highway. Our destination for today was another attempt to get off the tourist trail. Like Cappadocia the coast is littered with remains from the Greco-Roman era. We had found a city ruins, not far from our route, which looked incredible and left to the elements - just as we like it. Heading off the dreamy smooth highway we wound through the tight passages of a rural village and onto a very rocky track, around a hill, to a small plateau next to a 2000 year old theatre. On what, we could only assume, was the flat ‘commoner’ area of the ancient city, we set up camp and climbed the carved, and overgrown, steps to the top of the theatre to watch the sunset. Night fell, the stars shone bright, and in the breathless night we cooked dinner over a fire. Like the beach, we had another visitor that night, albeit a much younger one. Evidently there must be a lot of boar in this part of Turkey.
Taking a walk around the acropolis the following morning we found parts to be quite well preserved considering it hasn’t been occupied in 700 years. Surrounding the city walls are hundreds of huge stone carved sarcophagi, some with detailed carved reliefs. Into the city walls rooms are cut into the rock, and in the city itself other stone structures which we couldn’t really identify. One struggle faced by hill-top fortifications is water. We stumbled upon, thankfully not into, gigantic water containers cut into the ground all over the city and surrounding area. The containers varied in size though from what we could see, were around 5-6 metres in diameter and the same deep, with an opening at the top of about half a metre. Water varied in each though they now seem to be a better suited home for local animals, of which tried to become acquainted with Jolie. With the sun high now high in the sky, the day had heated significantly and it was time to hit the road again.
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[@wildliveunit292]

Turkey seems to be so cool. Thanks for showing us this beautiful country. The music is really cool! well done to the editor:)

[@TheWayOverland]

Cheers guys, thanks for the feedback.

[@terryvictor1]

Phenomenal episode! Never would I have any idea of Turkey without your video. Beautiful pristine coastline and amazing ruins. Thanks so much!!

[@TheWayOverland]

Cheers Terry, Turkey surprised us also!

[@stevestott1514]

What a spectacular country Turkey has been . from the beautiful coastal ares to the mts . all the historic buildings and history of the people that have lived there . Is for sure a country I will over land to some day . You two have really shown the areas and people to such a great and enjoyable part of the world . All I can say is wow what a beautiful video and countryside . Thanks again for sharing your wonderful travel memories with us all your over landing friends . Cheers from Steve Stott in Sutherlin Oregon U.S.A. 🥂🍻😄👍🏼 :):)

[@TheWayOverland]

Thanks Steve, glad you're enjoying these Turkey episodes! 👍🏻

[@cleanenergyinside1921]

Turkey looks Amazing. The blue waters seem enticing. Greetings from 🇲🇾

[@TheWayOverland]

Very enticing, and refreshing!

[@colinross6259]

As always wish I was there.

[@amadsaleem8949]

You guys. The best I can explain is that I play ur video and straight after hit the like button. I know it wiĺl be epic.

[@TheWayOverland]

Cheers Amad! 👍🏻

[@qlroamers]

Turkey so beautiful 😳🥰

[@edwinrock2118]

Another nice video. Thanks for your great job

[@TheWayOverland]

Thanks!

[@nepaleseinchina]

Beautiful, really refreshing work/vlog.

[@TheWayOverland]

Thanks

[@jasonpetersharpe]

Your content is real life and it’s just perfect 👍🏼

[@pakturkazerbaijantv6244]

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[@warwickadams6108]

I feel like you guys are getting better and better. Thanks again

[@TheWayOverland]

Cheers, glad to hear you're enjoying them!

[@Potshottin]

Stunning/informative!!!🙂

[@TheWayOverland]

Thanks James 🙂

[@EMos48]

Awesome private beach with crystal water. However im just curious would you bring along your car key to the water with you? :D..

[@timwolf4443]

Nice camera work. Tim

[@TheWayOverland]

Cheers Tim

[@JKoverland]

Good stuff guys really enjoyed that one :) even more looking forward to driving down that way in the next few months.

[@TheWayOverland]

Cheers guys, enjoy it!

[@outingwithme1581]

Mesmerizing beauty ❤️❤️

[@TheWayOverland]

Thanks

[@riamriam6758]

What views!

[@rawdyrider]

Amazing area!

[@TheWayOverland]

Sure is!

[@jasonpetersharpe]

Turkey 🇹🇷 is remarkably beautiful. Your adventures are great 👍🏼

[@TheWayOverland]

Thanks Jason 👍🏻

[@jasonpetersharpe]

@@TheWayOverland I like the camera on top of the truck, so I can see the various landscapes

[@arifhaidari345]

Absolutely love the content, the music and the editing is phenomenal guys. However, I think documenting more interaction with the locals (specially in the more remote villages) would make your trip more memorable and your videos more interesting for your audience.

[@TheWayOverland]

Thanks Arif, That’s a fair point, one we’ve discussed at length, and resultantly why we still make the episodes the way they are and concentrate on the landscapes. The reason we have chosen not to include those interactions is we don’t feel comfortable arriving into small remote villages, some which predominately don’t see foreigners, in a big car (especially when they may own next to nothing themselves), and wielding a camera around potentially provoking a sense of superiority. There has been times when we’ve thought it might be ok, requested to, and then told no. We know that if someone did that where we live we’d be put off, and in some of the remote places we go the last thing we want to do is create hostility. Sure, some travel shows do it though they’re people with different agendas, motivations, and just not us. We also feel the camera can sometimes taint an experience and as taking the videos or photos wasn’t the primary goal of our trip, we’d prefer to have real interactions without the distraction. We can understand how this would be more engaging for the viewer though one thing we’ve tried to maintain over the course of documenting our travel is to only do what we feel comfortable doing and reflect the things we enjoy. For us, we have those memories of the interactions, some of which are pretty interesting so perhaps we’ll write a book about them one day. Thanks for the suggestion though, if in the future there is a time we feel it’s ok, we’ll still ask, though for the interim we hope you can enjoy the landscapes. Cheers

[@peteregan3862]

Love that Greek theatre - obviously the front and all decorations have been robbed from it probably more than 1500 years ago. Interesting construction - the rear wall is stone blocks. Under the seats it is just rock fill. I'm surprised the stone for the seats was not robbed out as well.

[@Hoomanoverland]

Please do a photograph book of your travels;)

[@TheWayOverland]

Thats a good idea 👍🏻

[@GeoFreeskier]

WoW Looks amazing! Can you please share location of first camp private beach in this video? ❤

[@jacquelineperrett9553]

Jolie, when you mention snippets of history/info , is that from a guide book, like lonely planet? They’re so useful and interesting. This was a fabulous episode. We’re just about to drive from the UK to Malta, via Sicily. We’re in our D5 but we’ll be staying in Agritourismos! I know, we should be roughing it but we’re too old ha! Our first driving adventure of 5 weeks. We’ll be driving the Italian coastline, so hope to see some similar spectacular views to you.

[@TheWayOverland]

Thanks Jacqueline, it's from a mix of different media, all thrown together. It's a bit hard finding info on some of the places we visit so we generally have to stitch stuff together. All the best with your travels! The coast line in Italy is incredible so no doubt you'll find some great views.

[@bepe3643]

Really love your Videos :-) You do quite some exploring by foot. Are not worried when you leave your car behind?

[@TheWayOverland]

Thanks, we were initially, though you reach a point where you either never leave it and don't get to see much, or attempt to mitigate the risks and have a bit of faith in people. As a precaution we lock all our valuables in a safe and the Troopys got a special start sequence. There's bad people everywhere in the world though so if it's going to happen it's going to happen. Thankfully we've been lucky to date.

[@johndiaz7240]

You guys have been named dropped recently in other sites for good reason you have been to wonderful places.

[@TheWayOverland]

Cheers John, good to hear.

[@mike.garnham]

Great. I love your vlog. How did you find the first beach? Or all the others for that matter! Time passes quickly watching your stuff. Always leave ‘‘em wanting more eh?

[@TheWayOverland]

Cheers Mike, the video description paints a pretty good picture of the process. Essentially, this one was off Google maps which use to trawl the coastlines looking for tracks, we also use iOverlander though try not to as we prefer to find our own.

[@Thebluelandy]

We loved that last camp spot sooo much! Did you go swimming into the cave? 😍

[@TheWayOverland]

Yeah, we thought our searching of Google maps had paid off and we'd found another little secret beach like we did with the previous one. Then a German couple turned up in a van just as we were leaving, turns out its pinned on an app! Nevertheless we had the place to ourselves. Sure did, coming up in the next episode. 🙂

[@gordonwheeler627]

Hi Guys, this leg of the tour appears to be throwing fantastic vistas which are as gorgeous as the stans, if not quite as dramatic as the really mountainous areas, the hot air ballons in the last episode were epic, and the beach in this one is a real find. Keep em coming!!

[@TheWayOverland]

Cheers Gordon, yeah we were blown away by the landscape in Turkey. The Stan countries for us were some of our favourites as they had a lot to offer - landscapes, culture, history, and food. Turkey definitely also met all of that, with the added bonus of amazing beaches!

[@sanjaygehani1174]

Did you look for a replacement tyre in Turkey ? They have some local tyre manufacturing there

[@TheWayOverland]

We thought about it, though we carry 2 spares so it wasn’t pressing. As the terrain we would be covering for the rest of the trip was quite tame and the opportunity to get another increased exponentially the further west we went we were confident to run with what we had.

[@wardaosman9482]

@The way overland can you please pin the locations that you showed...it's indeed beautiful places and your work is amazing 👏

[@999mrkhaled]

Can u share location of that beach plz

[@mdrasheduzzaman5139]

Whats the name of this beach?

[@mark-]

🚑😊👍✨

[@rainey06au]

Absolutely breathtaking to be able to get so intimate with those Greek ruins. Insane. Also the gall of that drone pilot trying to get a sneaky shot of Jolie's butt. ;)

[@TheWayOverland]

Yeah there's plenty of ruins in Turkey though a lot are commercialised or on the tourist route, we were pretty happy to able to find these ones as is and explore them ourselves. I'll have to keep an eye on that pilot 👀

[@peteregan3862]

United Nations has just announced that Turkey having submitted the relevant paperwork is to be spelt Turkiye and pronounced as in Turkey. It is an English language thing to follow these guidelines, but the French, Germans, Italians continue to use their many centuries old names for these countries.