Antalya, Turkey Travel Blogs

A DAY AT THE KONTOR
Aug 6, 2008 (6 photos)

... 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 ...

Lebanon Cedars in Turkey
Jun 5, 2008 (22 photos)

... 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 here?& ...

Life on a Caique
Aug 3, 2007 (29 photos)

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 ...

Treehouses
Oct 26, 2005 (15 photos)

... 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 a ...

Olympos
Jun 9, 2008

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Club 'Med'
May 30, 2006 (17 photos)

... 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
Nov 25, 2007 (12 photos)

Today was a rest and recuperate day. It's best described in pictures.

Olympos and the flaming Chimaera
May 5, 2006 (18 photos)

... 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 ...

A Sunken City And Oh So More..
Jul 29, 2006 (11 photos)

... 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 was just ...

Gods and Monsters
May 30, 2006 (42 photos)

... 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 ...

Cruising the Turkish Mediterranean
May 3, 2006 (25 photos)

... 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 lack ...

The Turqoise coast
Oct 17, 2005 (4 photos)

... 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 ...

Olympos games
Aug 3, 2007 (5 photos)

... 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 or ...

A hair-raising journey
Nov 24, 2007 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

No Greeks In This Olympos..
Jul 31, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 but ...

Side
Apr 30, 2005 (1 photos)

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
Apr 6, 2005

... 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
Aug 20, 2005 (11 photos)

... 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. Today we ...

Kosh for the weekend
Jul 11, 2006

... ), 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 morning ...

To the mediterranean coast
Jul 3, 2006

... up on fire one night, had to stop, drop and roll), which was amazing. We made our way down to the overpopulated, main Antalya beach. Neither the scalding hot rocks that you can't walk on without shoes (no sand) nor the obnoxious, blaring pop music being ...

The Olympic flame
Apr 18, 1998

We started driving along the coast, stopping here and there to have swims on the coast. The reason being, even though this was April, when we headed inland, it was going to get colder. We stopped off at Kas where they had a delightful little Greek ...

Left olympos with michael and kylie and we ...
Nov 17, 2000

Left Olympos with Michael and Kylie and we got a bus to Antalya together. They are heading back to Istanbul to get a connection to Canada. I caught a 14hr over night bus to Antakya to get into Syria on the 1th. Got offered somewhere to stay in Sydney ...

Bailed out of fethiye early and have ...
Nov 14, 2000 (2 photos)

Bailed out of Fethiye early and have arrived in Olympos which sticks out of the south coast of Turkey near um, I can't remember where. Anyway check a map. Michael and Kylie and I are still together and we stayed at the Orange treehouses which was ...

King Midas and the Golden Touch
Oct 27, 2008 (13 photos)

... rugged way...Driving through the remote countryside to arrive at the site required undulations through the rural hills of Turkey... a land of tiny villages and nomadic farming families harvesting crops of onions and potatoes...  The boys loved getting ...

Kas-tastic!
Apr 13, 2008 (5 photos)

We are loving Kaº...a bit more our speed than Bodrum and Kalkan.  We have a great place to stay and we are exploring the local beaches.  This is where we have to point out that these are not beaches like we know and love.  What they call ...

confession time
Oct 5, 2005

... , I drink a lot of water. Which I am well aware is good for me. And while on the beverage topic, would you believe that both Greece and Turkey are crazy for Nescafe?? They even advertise it on their signs and menus. So glad I'm not a coffee drinker!!

up in the trees...
Aug 2, 2006 (9 photos)

There had to be a hiccup eventually... So İ have at last arrived at Kadir's here in Olympos on the southern coast of Turkey...İve been travelling with four aussies for the past week or so...The boat trip was fantastic though we ran to a little trouble...our ...

Kas Kas Kas
Nov 17, 2008 (42 photos)

... an apartment to rent before he begins a new job there next month.  He will have one hour before the bus leaves again for Antalya.  He wants to practice his English.  He allows Denis and me to trot out the several phrases of Turkish we have struggled to master.   ...

NOVELLA YACHTING BLUE VOYAGE TOUR
Jul 9, 2006 (3 photos)

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From Silifke to Alanya
Jan 16, 2009 (4 photos)

... Robin by the way. From Silifke to Alanya Leaving early after breakfast we hit the road with the firm determination to reach Antalya shortly after lunch. The road decided otherwise. The Turkish know about the third dimension. We went left, right, up, ...