Perge Antalya

Antalya is a gorgeous seaside town - sparkling green water, yellow cliffs, snow capped mountains and bright sunshine. Pity its winter. In a fit of insanity, we hire a car and promptly discover that petrol is 3 dollars a litre. Bevan has now perfected ...

... we could see the huge mountains (which was the wrong way) and we could see the planes taking off and landing from Antalya airport. Finally found a cross road - but no signs on it. We choose the road that looked marginally wider and therefore hopefully ...

... for it, Lord knows I need it! We are landing, ill write more later. 3.26.07 We made it! We were going to go to the antalya museum but we ran out of time, so instead we walked into the city & had some food, then went a& saw some remains of something. ...

... Minuten hier heraufzuklettern, wo doch jeder dieser Überblicke nahezu unvergesslich ist?   Die Fahrt zum Antikenmuseum von Antalya durch die nahe Grosstadt erfordert einigen Spürsinn. Aber das Museum darf sich kein Antikenfreund entgehen lassen. ...

... on the welcome sign. Antalya has a population of 650,000. My destination for the day is the the town of Perge located to the north east of Antalya. It is close the the present day town of Asku. This ancient town was ruled by the Greeks, Persians and ...

HE SAID: We attempted driving through the craziness of Antalya to visit the Archeological Museum and Lara Beach.  There were a few times while driving where I simply didn't know what to do.  At one point there was a solid red light and a green ...

The morning was spent visiting Perge and Aspendos, then we had the afternoon ...

... to Termessos by noon. But it did cost far far less. But it is a remote place. There are some substantial mountains in Turkey, but Antalya is on the fringe of the range, sort of like Calgary is to the Rockies. Termessos is just inside of the mountains, ...

... it's almost unbelievable. Although X-mas is high season we paid less than US$ 250 for a open-jaw return ticket (Amsterdam-Izmir, Antalya-Amsterdam). In Low season the price is even US$ 50 less and it's possible to fly return from Amsterdam to Istanbul ...

... fairness, it was, but they were incredibly long blocks and it took us the better part of an hour to get there. The Antalya museum was simply incredible, one of the best museums I have ever seen. The first exhibit was stone age artifacts and Neanderthal ...