babakale / GARP

GARP is the eco-village about 2km away from babakale (a small village at the most western point of asia, 500 residents (= ), initially launched by two wonderful ppl named yannis & murat.
normally were going to garp every day for its still under construction. currently a generator room & the main stone house are being built, windenergy is supposed to be installed this month and a lotof cleaning & fixing minor problems has to be done, getting prepared for summer (=
its not a commune yet, garp is just not ready yet for hosting too many ppl, but maybe its going to be one in the future, well see...right now ppl are coming & going, everybody distributing a lil (or more) to garp. im really really curious about how things will develope in here, its such a beautiful hide-away, the only traffic being the small fishingboats, which nonetheless are fitting perfectly into the scenery...
a yoga retreat, jamming sessions with musicians from all over the world & an art workshop are already being planned halfway, so...(=
too bad i cannot be here in summertime, but ill definately come back! so if anybody has any good ideas or/and is interested in contributing as well: youd be more than welcome!

so, this is gonna be an entry full of pictures i guess:

street of babakale, leading up to yannis' place


view in front of the house, look at all those poppy flowers!
(theyre all over the place in here, im in heaven geeeeez~~~~ *_____*)

the kitchen & living room at the same time:

such a great design!


way up to the kitchen

the terrace:



on that day the weather wasnt that sunny as you can see, but still there was a wow-atmosphere...its so great, you cannot imagine, you have the sun all day at your terrace, every terrace was built facing the west, so...: perfect scenery every day...

the room i stayed in the first few days (with private bath room of course (| ):


afterwards (| :


now, welcome to GARP!


the stone house, made of beautiful black volcanic stone:


the main kitchen


and the outdoor one (;



view from behind the kitchen, on the left handside theres one of the small gardens (=

the private beach |D



view from the terrace of the "boat house"...


...which is this:

(=

amazing vegetation...


in that wooden shack theres the toilet & the shower and the two green things are tents which have to be open first...

anf finally: monica with badem, our lovely fellows =D

well, the pictures are maybe not even giving you the slightest idea of how it really looks; and more importantly how it feels like being there...sometimes pictures just dont show you see...
and one more important thing: in here ive eaten the best best -BEST- food (ive ever had)!
bread, yoghurt, cheese, butter, olive oil, salats... - just everything self-made and grown, you cannot believe that man...cheers!