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We returned to Finike at the end of the season by way of the same coastal area we traveled in June. There are so many places to stop that we rarely need to stop at the same village twice, unless we liked it so much that we want to visit it again.
From the coastal town of Datça, we took a ride to Olive Farm, a manufacturer of fine olive oil and other olive products. They make the oil from a special type of olive from Ayvalık, a city on Turkey's Aegean coast that we'd visited on our way up the coast.

Denise, a woman who is knowledgeable and passionate about olives, gave us a tour of the facility. The timing of our visit enabled us to watch some harvesting, which is what the man is doing in the photo at left. Naturally, he doesn't want to bruise the olives. He is using an electric vibrating rod to shake the ripe olives off the branches. Then another man coaxes the more reluctant olives off with a plastic rake. A protective net on the ground keeps the harvested olives from getting dirty and makes it easier to gather them up.

We visited the port town of Bozburun, known for its boatbuilding business. Here they build many of the sailing gulets that take tourists on what's known as the Blue Voyage along Turkey's southern coast. They build these boats from mahogany or even pine.

Gulets in various stages of construction lay like those at right along the road out of town. Wooden boatbuilding is a longstanding art in Turkey, though it's been supplanted in most places by fiberglass construction. It's almost poetic that these structures look so much like the dinosaur reconstructions that you see in natural history museums.

History is ubiquitous along Turkey's coast, and you don't even need to go indoors to surround yourself with antiquities. The ancient settlement on the site where Kaş is today was called Habessos, and goes back to the sixth century BC.  Later, it was called Antiphellus, part of the area annexed by Alexander the Great.

Kaş is a thriving resort, yet there at the head of the main shopping street is a sarcophagus from the Lycian civilization that used to reside along Turkey's coast. It's called the King's Tomb, and it dates from the fourth century BC. It was carved from a single block and contains eight lines of Lycian writing. Until 1974, nobody knew how to read Lycian. The message remained a mystery to archaeologists until trilingual tablets in Greek, Lycian and Aramaic were discovered nearby. Now you can learn how to speak Lycian at the University of Chicago.

We didn't sail to Antalya, Turkey's fourth largest city. It's on the southern coast beyond Finike. Instead, we took a day trip to see it. It's a two-hour minibus ride from Finike.

Antalya was founded in the second century BC, though nearby artifacts demonstrate civilization in the area from as early as the Paleolithic period. It's been under Roman rule, then Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman, and artifacts from all these civilizations remain.

Leading into the old city of Kaleiçi, the gate at right was built as a victory arch to commemorate a 130 AD visit by Hadrian. You can see the ruts made by ancient carriages in the stone below the arch.