As a tourist I am a bit of a backwater: I have never been to one of the huge "resorts" that many tourists travel to, with lots of sun, sleep, food and play in the water fair that seems to be a part of most of these places of holiday delight. At a few miles from Side a whole string of them had just been erected, and I took some pictures. They astounded me.

In February 2015 I returned and walked along many more of them. A woman told me there had been about seven 5-star hotels added in the last few years, and the supply seemed to be too much, partly because tourism was slow. Still, I saw several new hotels being built or extended. I only walked west of Side, on the other side a similar set of hotels seemed to hold many more tourists. I almost attach no captions, because after all, what more might one say?