In Dalyan you will see rows of 'African Queen' boats along the river bank. After a leisurely breakfast, you choose your 'African Queen' boat for the 30 minute voyage through the reed beds that were used to film the famous scenes in Houston 's film, “The African Queen”. For half an hour you can pretend to be Humphrey Bogart or Audrey Hepburn, on the way to a spit of golden sand were turtles have laid their eggs for millions of years. You can swim in fresh water on one side of this 5 kilometres of beautiful beach or in salt water on the other but the beach is best enjoyed in the morning and evening because by midday the day trippers from Marmaris arrive. On your return to Dalyan ask your boatman to drop you off so you can walk through the splendid ruins of the Lycian city of Caunus . (these are some of the oldest ruins in Turkey ). When the day trippers have returned to their various resorts, you have Dalyan for yourself and you can dine al fresco in the restaurants along the riverbank.