Bodrum Turkey

Bodrum is regarded by tourists as “Saint-Tropez of Turkey”. Previously the Mausoleion stood here, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Today lure discos, false Levis and colorful vegetable markets.

Touch fears can be no! In a dolmus (photo right), a kind of taxi eingepfercht, I drive from one suburb to Bodrum from inside, once the kleinasiatische Halicarnassus. Dolmus is full, and this Peugeot minibus also runs here until when it is full. Schedules are therefore not. Gehäkelte lace and a blue, glass amulet, which symbolizes an eye, dangling from the windshield down. The filing protects something that looks like a maroon bathroom carpet from the fifties.

At the vegetable market

The dolmus runs and runs. Meanwhile, however, the number of passengers increased to 21, two women squat next to the door and collect the fare of passengers, change, as appropriate, and submit the return money to those concerned. Turkish Lira course. “Müsait yerde!” Screams suddenly one of the two, that would mean about German: “At the appropriate place!” The driver slows, it is rising. Recruitment is also as easy: it stops the dolmus hands and goes `s.

I go up to the bus station at the terminus Cevat Sakir, where a market hall. Friday there is vegetable market: Bright red tomatoes, fresh garlic white onions, golden honey, olive twelve different varieties in colors of black on purple to green can color me in the eyes überquellen noise.

Next to shopping mall along he meets me everywhere: the Boncuk, the funny, stylized eye, which I have admired the dolmus. There are miniature him from hand to young and he protects against the “evil eye”. Further on the stands of the sponge divers (photo left) from Yalikavak. From building entrances are schnieke guys, which I really necessarily the real perfume at a price to sell. Others are honest and have their stands on a plate “Faked watches”. There are silver jewelry, carpets, Strandfummel, “designer” clothes and repeatedly Boncuks.

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