Fethiye, Turkey | A Hidden Gem Worth Exploring

Fethiye, Turkey | A Hidden Gem Worth Exploring

[Music] This week on JordanJaunts, we visit 
the traditional city of Fethiye. Rain or shine, there’s plenty to see here with its old 
town and marina. Come with us and we’ll show you around. [Music] Welcome to Fethiye 
in Turkiye. We are on a turtle watch today. We’ve been told Fethiye is amazing for 
turtles and around about the marina here is the place to come. As well as that, 
we’re also going to show you around the city and some of the notable landmarks. 
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Oh, there’s one. Look. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] [Applause] Look at all the 
dive equipment on board. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] park. Fantastic 
city with a population of 200,000 people. So it’s not overpopulated. Feels 
a nice vibe. Nice clean city and so many lovely places to visit. 
So let’s come with us for a look. [Music] [Music] Thunder [Music] Oh, did you see it? Lightning? 
Yeah. Oh, this is really close now! We’re just taking some cover just now. The thunder 
and lightning is on, so it’s not the normal blue skies you find in Fethiye, but we’re having 
a look about the old town. Such a surprise, isn’t it? It’s not what I expected of 
the old town of Fethiye. Beautiful. Really surprising. We’ll show you more. [Music] [Music] That’s nice. [Music] Well, you do say it’s weather for the ducks 
and the ducks are certainly enjoying this. So, I think we’ll definitely stay in just now because 
this thunder and lightning is relentless today. But what an unexpected place. We just 
came around the corner there and into the old market town which is fantastic.
We’re in the old market sheltering from a thunderstorm. And what a great shelter this 
turned out to be. This market is beautiful and so interesting. I’m just loving all the spices, 
all the vibrant colours, and you just think this would put the fun back into cooking when you 
see all these beautiful spices. We earlier visited a fruit market with an abundance 
of different types of fruit. The quality, the size of fruit was something that we just 
don’t see in the UK. Wow. It’s incredible. We’re along the turquoise coast here in Fethiye.. 
It’s really remarkable the differences between places as you head along the coast. And 
that’s what makes traveling so interesting for us because we get to see so many different 
things and experience different cultures. [Music] A really nice experience here as well in Fethiye. 
Walking along the marina. There’s so much choice, so many private boats to hire or the big 
excursions when you go on with many people. I will say these these will be much easier to get 
on here than they are at Oludeniz Beach. I think that’s just you, Nicola. I had no problem swimming 
to the boat. You’re absolutely spoiled for choice I think looking at the prices of what 
you’re getting offered from an excursion shop or coming direct with the boat, I 
think the boats are definitely cheaper. But the only thing I would say is you’re 
probably having to get here yourself if you’re going with the boat directly because 
the excursions will give you that transfer if you need it. So it’s maybe not, the price 
is maybe not a fair comparison. But you can get about anywhere here on a dolmus for 
£1 each which is so affordable. [Music] Nicola’s still looking for the turtles. [Music] Any turtles, Nicola? No 
turtles, James. Look at the view though. The view is spectacular. It is again a bit hazy 
tonight. [Music] Not not that I’m complaining. This seems endless. Most places you 
come, there’s certainly a couple of rows of boats, but this is absolutely 
endless. Feels I’ve been walking miles now. Even though I’ve had that 2 litres 
today, could definitely do with a cold one. Busy, busy working. Busy busy working. Yeah, this is your place. Uh, yeah. Yeah. We’ll come 
in here for some food. Excellent. Thank you. Happy man. I got vegetarian noodles and we’ve got a 
vegetarian pide. Now, these are cheaper than the omeletes we had in Greece. So, this 
feels like much better value to come to Turkiye. Beautiful evening here in Fethiye. Good 
bit of vibe. Saturday night, nice and warm. Sunset very soon. Such a fantastic city. I always wonder how so many of these 
boats can survive and work. I’ve never seen so many in a place in my life. 
[Music] So, I’m hoping that this tune won’t get blocked by YouTube. I’m sure 
there’s definitely no copyright here, but I’m sure there was no copyright in 
my song, the karaoke the other night, and that was blocked by copyright. So, let’s let’s 
see. Anyway, what a brilliant evening. [Music] As we move into this wonderful 
square, there’s a statue of Attaturk, the Turkish leader that changed so many 
things. So, unless there’s fluorescent turtles going about, I don’t think 
we’re going to see them tonight. Is there such a thing, Nicola? 
Fluorescent turtles? No, but there are other fluorescent animals. [Music] Now, that’s a beautiful boat. Wow. [Music] [Music] Oh, nice. What you having? Can 
I have a caramel one, please? A cone. Cone.Yeah. Okay. One. One please. And what you 
caramel and this yeah summer fruits I think This is a very attractive riverwalk in 
Fethiye. All the popup cafes and local businesses. Wished I’d known about this before I 
had my dinner down the front. This is beautiful. Look at the low tables, it’s very cute. That’s 
for wee people. That’s for you Nicola. Nah, you’re not actually wee just joking. Short 
legs. I actually feel really huge here. Do you? Yeah. I lifted up a a a skirt and 
a top and I thought, “Oh, that’d be nice.” And then I looked and they said it was a medium, 
but it was tiny. And I was just thinking, “Oh my goodness, I just feel so big here. I feel 
much taller than lots nearly all the women and lots of the men. I feel huge here.” Funny. Me 
too. I feel big as well. Feel tall. I like it. A tip for you in Turkiye is bring notes with you 
or Euro and exchange them when you get here. If you try to take money at the ATM, even a main bank 
building, never mind a standalone ATM will charge you between 6% and 8%. I tried to take £200 
out there, and was getting charged £16. Now, in my book, that is a lot of money out your 
funds. So, my advice would be leave them alone, use card. Often in Turkiye, they say 
you can’t use card because they get charged by the bank. Sorry, I’m not getting 
charged 8%. So, This definitely a good tip. Thank goodness for that. We got a dolmus. 
I was trying to take money out the ATM there because we didn’t have much cash left 
and we would have had to go to an ATM. So, as I said earlier, the ATM is so expensive, 8% 
charge here in most banks. Coming on to dolmus, I was expecting it to be more expensive because 
we’re coming from Fethiye. to Hisaronu. So, I thought maybe two each. 
So I handed the driver 200 200 and so I handed the driver 200 lira expecting 
it just to be that was it and and I took a seat he shouted to me he said no your change and it 
turns out it’s still only a pound each to get anywhere in this Fethiye area on the bus. But 
we were just having some reflection on when we were in Egypt if you’d done that in Egypt 
they would have kept it and said nothing. It’s just a completely different culture and 
it’s much appreciated I think as a tourist. Nice people.

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