Boat tour

 

 

 

 

Vanes' family visit

While moms were doing shopping, dad were taking care of the little ones in Kas streets.

SA 2010 WC France-Uruguay: We were still hopeful at that time, before the disaster...

Peaceful kids...

On the top of Kalecoy castle.

Story time at home...

Family pics

Panaromas of Turkey

Thanks to the visit of Vanessa & Niko's family, we can share with you some representative panorama of Turkish coast:
Amphitheater of Myra, Beach, Amphitheater of Kas, Lycian Tombs & Kekova coast (already presented earlier)

Paul, Cha Cha Cha. After the video, the pics

Cha Cha Cha Paul

Petra: the monaster

After a nice walk (a very good way to reduce the number of tourists) under the hot sun of Jordania, you discover step by step the wonder: the Monaster

 

Look at the detailled work, simply impressive!

Petra

First post out of Turkey... We are changing the rules, but Petra is worth it.

First a little bit of history:
Petra was first established sometime around the 6th century BC, by the Nabataean Arabs, a nomadic tribe who settled in the area and laid the foundations of a commercial empire that extended into Syria. Despite successive attempts by the Seleucid king Antigonus, the Roman emperor Pompey and Herod the Great to bring Petra under the control of their respective empires, Petra remained largely in Nabataean hands until around 100AD, when the Romans took over.
It was still inhabited during the Byzantine period, when the former Roman empire moved its focus east to Constantinople, but declined in importance thereafter. The Crusaders constructed a fort there in the 12th century, but soon withdrew, leaving Petra to the local people until the early 19th century, when it was visited by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt.Location Petra lies about 3-5 hours south of modern Amman, about 2 hours north of Aqaba, on the edges of the mountainous desert of the Wadi Araba. The city is surrounded by towering hills of rust-coloured sandstone which gave the city some natural protection against invaders.The site is semi-arid, the friable sandstone which allowed the Nabataeans to carve their temples and tombs into the rock crumbling easily to sand. The colour of the rock ranges from pale yellow or white through rich reds to the darker brown of more resistant rocks. The contorted strata of different-coloured rock form whorls and waves of colour in the rock face, which the Nabataeans exploited in their architecture.

The place is as you could have read full of history (over a 1,000 years). The site is hudge and impressive. Difficult to select only a few pics.
 Imagine, most of the building are carved right out of the rocks, from 1 block!

Houses

Kings' Graves

To be continued...

Club Med -Circus

The blast of the week-end (for the kids). The 1st step is to climb on the ladder, already inaccessible for Bruno :-)

And then, we have to swing with the trapeze ...

... and try to make special movements.

 

Quite impressive what Paul & Maelle were able to achieve...

Maelle admited it: it was quite scary at the beginning but it was SOOOOOOO much FUN!

Club Med Activities

We all felt for a moment like Robin Hood... quite fun and not so easy.

Paul, really loved it

Swimming was of course one of the main activities for the kids... The big ones are becoming independent.

Week end Club Med

We see so many tourists in Antalya that we wanted to try one of these resorts...

So 1st experience ever at the Club Med

It was great to have these 3 days relax before a BUSY sunner (we will tell you more about it later)

It was good to have this break, have some rest and spend time in family.