Day 8: July 11, 2009 – Saturday
Like every other good vacation, so did this had to come to an end…
Friday evening, we packed our bags, and finished the rest of our packing on Saturday morning and took off.
We did not leave soon in the morning. Bought fresh, homemade bagels from the bagel house in the morning and had breakfast by the sea. After which we walked a bit around the streets of Bodrum and the Marina.
Saturday is also the day of the Turgutreis Bazaar. In fact there is a bazaar everyday in a different place when you are in Bodrum.
Tuesdays, there is the clothes bazaar in Bodrum town center set near the bus and minibus main station. Thursdays and Fridays, the fruit and vegetable bazaar is set out in the same place. Thursdays, there is also another bazaar in Akyarlar –much smaller and crowded.
As we had missed the Bodrum bazaars, we decided to go to the Turgutreis Bazaar before taking off. Newspaper authors note that there is no open market anywhere in the world that is as lively and as charismatic as the Turgutreis Bazaar. I may be able to say the same… But, in a different way. I have been to 
open bazaars mostly in different parts of Italy. While, so similar in their nature to the open bazaars in Turkey, I have never seen the liveliness of the Turkish bazaars anywhere else. The sellers shout, make jokes; the people bargain, try on clothes, eat food inside the bazaar. Going to the bazaar in Turkey is not a morning activity, it is a day long activity that requires full commitment.
The Turgutreis bazaar was interestingly filled with foreigners, but not tourists exactly. All from Holland, England or Poland who had moved to Bodrum to live there were there to shop. We did not spend the whole day unlike the trend. We had to move fast and get on the road at a decent hour. And, so we left the bazaar around noon time and finally took off for Istanbul.
You will find on Donuz, everything that is unique to where we have been and where you would want to be. Be it food, be it lodging, be it a special feet massage, a bottle of wine, a person… Be it for 7 days, a day, a week, 36 hours or a single moment. On Donuz, is everything, you will need to make your holidays special. We hope you share with us your experiences.
Tue, Jul 21, 2009
Bodrum