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Antalya Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Antalya, Turkey
You're a Turkey
This is a top pick! ... ! Clearly I had missed the peak season in Antalya, and the lack of English was a little frustrating for a tourist town. I would describe Antalya as beautiful, but boring. The trip was made more fun by a couple of French girls and the Italian bloke that I ...
All Tombed Out
This is a top pick! Had a beautiful day of cycling along the coast today. I can't believe the colour of the water! I can see why it's called the Turquoise coast. Rugged cliffs plunge to the water below where waves beat the rocks into sand to create ...
From Sea to Tree
This is a top pick! ... who knew? Not us. For a look at some of it, check back - I am going to have to work backwards thru Turkey with the pictures and stories. Jan's blog..... Cruising the Aegean & Mediterranean Seas. Up and out early early as owner Adam kindly ...
Christmas Spirit?
This is a top pick! Hard to believe there's only 10 days until Christmas. Being in an Islamic country there aren't the reminders. No commercials, no decorations, no store displays, no Sears Catalogue, no cards, no carols, no snow, no gingerbread. Just ...
Treehouses
This is a top pick! ... by one dish comprised of fried potatoes, yogurt and hot peppers. Believe it or not, it was delicious! Vegetarians can survive in Turkey quite well. The only other people at the Lemon Pension were Marc and Ann, a couple from Anterp, Belgium. He's ...
Lebanon Cedars in Turkey
This is a top pick! ... cedars was not so easy, but relaxing was. At first, I searched online for a place where I could find the cedars in Turkey. This took a while, but eventually the town of Elmali seemed a good place to begin the search. Why was I searching ...
Life on a Caique
This is a top pick! Made our way down to the city of Kas in the morning of the 2nd of August. We had packed daybags because space on the boat was limited and our large bags were stored downstairs. The boat had a main covered area with tables and benches, and ...
Best Campsite EVER!!!
This is a top pick! ... end of the day (which comes soo early now) we needed to look for a place to camp. We haven't camped much in Turkey, but heard that wild camping is no issue. There are actually nomadic tribes still moving about the valleys. There doesn't ...
Club 'Med'
This is a top pick! ... of Chimaera. Cool! It's goodbye to the beach and hello to the mountains as we make the long trip to central and eastern Turkey. We're a little sad because we know we won't see the ocean again until we reach Egypt...one of the many things to look ...
Our day in Kas
This is a top pick! Today was a rest and recuperate day. It's best described in ...
A Sunken City And Oh So More..
This is a top pick! ... finally forced ourselves to move on. The only problem was where? Well, as you can probably guess from the title we chose Kas in Southern Turkey. We had planned to spend a few days in Kas but on arrival we made the snap decision to only spend 1 day as it ...
Olympos and the flaming Chimaera
This is a top pick! ... keep saying this but the cliffs and mountain ranges around made for some of the most spectacular scenery we'd witnessed in Turkey so far, which is certainly saying something - it keeps getting better and better. The change in elevation is probably about ...
Doing the Rain Dance
This is a top pick! ... . The bus had to backtrack and take a path up through the mountains on a very indirect route to Antalya. Statistically, this area in Turkey gets 3cm of precipitation in the month of December. I think they achieved that in the first 15 ...
A DAY AT THE KONTOR
This is a top pick! ... and, come to think of it, restaurants in the States only pay their servers $2.50 an hour, too. Also, working in Turkey is fun. At eight, a Ukrainian named Helen comes in. She's our fourth server/barwoman. She's very funny. She ...
Chapter 46: The Sunken City, and Chimaera Flames
This is a top pick! ... Wardrobe"). There were a surprising number of Turkish tourists at Olympos, which may explain why it was the first place I'd visited in Turkey that actually seemed packed. Aslan and I had a few beers, and he re-taught me how to play backgammon before we ...
Apple shisha in a treehouse
This is a top pick! The bus ride to Olympos was amazing. It was another 5 hours but driving along the coastline of the Mediterranean was truly stunning and made the time go by quite quickly. The green shrubbery was a sharp contrast from the brown scrub and the grey of ...
Cruising the Turkish Mediterranean
This is a top pick! ... autumn apparently. Oh well. Whatever the difficulties of getting to the actual attractions, the Mediterranean coastline along southern Turkey is spectacular and quite bizarre. Rocky and swept of tall vegetation by the prevailing winds and a ...
Amongst The Clouds..
This is a top pick! ... it on their itinerary. I guess there's not a lot more to say about Termessos other than if you're ever passing through Antalya and have a couple of hours to kill, get to Termessos as you will not be disappointed. Truly a rewarding experience. Next ...
I'll tell you where to stick your tree-house!!
This is a top pick! ... -house with an iron roof there was no orgy of air going on, it was more like a suicide sauna! · * * * * * * * * * * * Arriving into Antalya in good time, we made radio contact with Kelly and before you know it there is a rendezvous organised at ...
The Turqoise coast
This is a top pick! ... while driving around were that petrol is ridiculously high at 2.8 million lira a litre ($2.70!!!)and that women don't drive in Turkey, making Kate a bit of a spectacle on the country roads. Kas was a nice place to base ourselves with good food and ...
Gods and Monsters
This is a top pick! ... and down the Turquoise coast from Olympos to Fethiye, and for days trips of Eastern Europeans from the resorts of Side and Antalya. Despite these frequent invasions, the beach was perfect, and the weather got hotter and better everyday. And the water was ...
Magical flames burning in the rocks!
This is a top pick! After sightseeing and doing all the touristy stuff, we thought we would spend a couple days just relaxing and swimming. We headed to Olympos which is famous for the tree house accommodations. Well, its not really a tree house, but its right ...
Olympos games
This is a top pick! ... 't offer much apart from the social life and the beach and we decide to push on to somewhere a little less touristy. Travelling in Turkey is a bit difficult because of the expense of bus travel. A bus ride that might cost two or three dollars in Egypt ...
No Greeks In This Olympos..
This is a top pick! ... Ben and Helen from Sydney. Olympos is a funny little spot. It seems to be one of the last real backpacker hangouts in Turkey but has also become a big Turkish hangout. I'm not sure who's the dominating force in town but I think the Turks are slowly ...
A hair-raising journey
This is a top pick! ... the map, we only had about 200km to travel so it looked like it wouldn't take too long. We were to learn that in Turkey, distance is not always a good indicator of time. Given that it eventually took us 5 hours to travel this distance, that's an average ...
Side
This is a top pick! No shower - just couldn't do the cold shower thing again. Chris negotiated with Genghis and got him to arrange a Turkish bath for us all paid for by the tour company which was a small miracle in itself. Turkish bath was wicked and I treated myself to a ...
Turkey Beautiful Coast
This is a top pick! ... a "ghost town" = Kayakoy = which has been abandoned ever since the 1923 population exchange when the Greeks were forced to leave Turkey. The newly-transferred Turks refused to live in the houses but stole all their roofs and windows to build their own ...
Olympos
This is a top pick! ... occasions and still have sea legs! We will stay here in Olympos for just one more night, tommorow we shall take a bus to Antalya and connect with an overnight bus to Goreme, a village in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, known for its volcanic rock. ...
Kosh for the weekend
This is a top pick! ... estimated), for the weekend... with Marc, Gulin, and Yesim. It is a resort-ish town on the mediterranean, maybe 100 km west of Antalya, the mega town we went to last time. Good times were had by all. We took the night bus Thursday night, arrived Friday ...