Side is a strange place. First, it's a modern seaside beach resort, with all things you might expect in a tourist place like this: lots of hotels, bars, restaurants, discos, shops, etcetera. On the other hand, Side is also an important ancient city. And what we like about Side, is that the ancient city and the modern beach resort slowly fade into each other, there is no distinct border between those two.

Before we found the ancient city, we saw a lot of the beach stuff too. Since there are no time schedules to meet anymore, this is very relaxing: walk a few 100 meters, have a drink in a restaurant, walk a few more, have another drink.

Finally we reach the ancient city, where we skip the theatre (I think we've seen enough of those, the last couple of days) and enter the museum, fountain and ancient baths.

And when you've got the time to look around, without being pressed by Volkan's watch, these are really cool. The displays in the museum are quite interesting. Outside the museum we find the turtle, who apparently does have a time schedule to keep. He races all the way through the garden in under five minutes.