Though Marmaris is traditionally one of the three starting/ending points of the Turkish cruises, it surprisingly doesn’t feel like a huge tourist trap, yet. It definitely has all the hallmarks of such a place: an overabundance of bars promising cheap hooch, hawkers desperately trying to get you to take “just one look, my friend!” and so forth, but the fact that the foreign tourists are equal if not out numbered by Turks definitely helps.
It was our last night with our Blue Cruise compatriots, so we wanted to make the most of it. We started off with a whole fish dinner that the crew had caught for us.
Then we headed back into town to experience the nightlife, and examine all the comfy chairs!
As there was also a local soccer match between rivals being played for the championship, so we also had a great time observing the antics at neighboring bars, including vigorous shirt spinning and plenty of flares and smoke bombs, capped off by a honking cheering scooter parade.
[Video of scooters here]
– J
What is the local drink of choice? Hooch covers a lot of territory.