For a quieter stay, book into options like Bayrams (five minutes from the beach, families with children welcome, cushioned little gazeboes perfect to chill out during the day and night), recently built Turkmen tree houses with hammocks in the garden, also close to the beach or Orange Pension - another tree hostel in the middle of the orange grove.

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Perfectly suited for a chill drive or some serious pre-gaming before a night out.

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But by early Thursday morning, passengers started exiting the plane's rear staircase, captured on live, night-vision video as ethereal yellow ectoplasms, robes whirling in the pre-dawn chill.

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