There wasn't much notable about the town of Koycegic itself, but it was notable in that I met the people who I would be spending the next couple of weeks with.
Arriving in Koycegic, we stayed in a very cool hostel, located near a lake and with great facilities. It would be an ideal place to spend a week, with hammocks and a perfect backyard where they had barbeque's and a bar.
It was here where I met the australian girls, Sarah, Jacinta, Fiona, and Kelly and Kate. Sarah had left home several months before and had been traveling all around europe and had met up with her friends Jacinta and Fiona. Sarah was enjoying traveling, but was looking forward to getting home to her boyfriend. Very funny, very sweet girl. She always has great one-liners and knows a million movie quotes. She works in hospital management back home in Melbourne.
Jacinta is a school teacher at home and was looking forward to going to London to work and then do more traveling. Jacinta has a great dry sense of humor and brought some much-needed maturity to the group.
And then there is Fiona. Fiona was the sister I never had but probably deserved. When I was growing up I teased my brother so badly, he used to beat me up. Fiona tortured me to no end, but I got her back plenty of times. It was really back at college with the pranks we would play on each other. She was loads of fun. Turkey for Fiona was a last hurrah before she went back home to be married. I can't wait the guy who is going to put up with her every day! Only kidding, Fiona is terrific.
Kelly and Kate were two aussies from Melbourne as well who were doing long-term traveling and had just spent a month in Ios, Greece, making money to fund more traveling. They were both very cool girls, but didn't go on the boat cruise (in Fethye) so didn't get to know them nearly as much as the rest.
These are the guys it turns out I would spend the bulk of the rest of my time with in Turkey and we really became great friends.
Oh, and Koycegic, it was an okay little resort town on a lake, but why be on a lake when you can be at the OCEAN? Fortunately we were making the trip to Fethye and the ocean the next day.