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Antalya Slideshow
Antalya
Travel Blogs from Antalya, Turkey
Day 4
... it for a 100 degree, 80% humidity workaday sweat. MMmmm. So, anyhow, after about 19hours of travel from Boulder, Colorado to Antalya, Turkey, I was picked up on Friday by my new buddy Hakan and brought hear to Bogazkent, where we've spent the last few ...
The Heat is On - Chimaera
... nbsp; The ancient Greeks built a temple here and it's time to go see this. We drove through Antalya which surprised me in its relatively small size and coherent traffic patterns. It was easy to get through and we easily found ...
Taking it easy in Olympos
... at all except I spent the day catching up on emails and processing photos. Late that afternoon myself and the 2 Liz's headed down to the beach to relax. Tomorrow morning I am off to Antalya, approximately 1.5 hours by bus north of ...
Storks and Cows
Yesterday was probably our last day of early morning recording. We got up, as usual, a little before dawn and had a cup of coffee and some fruit. After that, we headed into the Bogazkent city center to cruise around looking for barn swallows singing from ...
Tree House Hotel!
We stayed in a tree house in Olympos for a couple of nights, cool beach there and the flames of Chimera, where there is a hillside covered in pockets of flame that burn all the time, natural gas escapes from underground there constantly and self ignites ...
Kas
5/29 We stopped in Kas for lunch but since we wanted to sea kayak over the Sunken City we persuaded Bridget to change our itinerary. She contacted the Fez office and they quickly found us a place to stay in Kas for the night and cancelled one of our ...
Nice Day for a White Wedding...and Camping
(C) So we took Ali's advice and traveled to Camping Nostalgie on the south coast of Turkey. After we were on our way, we realized we'd been hooked because now we're in charge of a bottle of wine to be delivered between campings. We can't just ...
Off to the Mediterranean
... is buried here along with several other important members of the whirling dervishes of the time. Off again for a longish drive to Antalya on the Turkish Mediterranean. Along the way we stopped for lunch at a roadside cafe/garage, not unlike what ...
Kas
Kas (pronounced Kahsh) was our first stop on the Mediterranean coast and it became a relaxing place to spend 3 nights. The town has a small population of only about 10,000. Money from tourism and European investments ...
Enjoying the beautiful Mediterranean
Saturday (Oct 13) I woke up a little nervous and appreensive about the 4 day boat cruise, worried that either the boat or the people on the boat would make the gullet (yacht) cruise less enjoyable. I seemed to share the same worries as the 2 Liz's ...
Antalya... (I can't think of a witty title)
Friday (Oct 19) After arriving in Antalya from Olympos I thought I would try my luck in catching public transport to my hotel, located in Kaleici or the "old town". I did manage to get on the correct bus however I was so disorientated I ...
Olympos, the end of our boat trip!
Well we are off the boat and finally back to civilization... except we are sleeping in a tree house. Other than that our gulet (boat) trip was Nice and relaxing. We got a ton of swimming in and are probably so tan that you would not recognize us! ...
Tree Houses
... started. We were able to even toast marshmallows over the flames. Everyone was jealous of our marshmallows as you can't get them in Turkey....our guide got them in Greece on her way. We have travelled down along a small section of the west coast before ...
Four days of floating on a boat
We are in Olympos after finishing a 4 day boat cruise on the Mediterannean. We went with a company called V-Go Yachting and it was alright except our guide was totally awol for a good chunk of the trip, leaving us with the rest of the crew that hardly ...
Best Campsite EVER!!!
... 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 ...
22 and 23 OLYMPOS TURKEY
... very nice, huge like our airport terminals with lots of spaces to sit, eat and things to buy. March 24, Tuesday We arrive in Antalya bus terminal and go to a small terminal to buy our tickets to Olympos. We had about 5 minutes, I took the bags ...
Lycian way
--> Kumluca to Finike 13 hours night bus to leave Istanbul towards the Mediterranean sea. Travelling feeling, welcome back! :) Why going south? because there is this 509 kms trek called the Lycian way. It is a hike that passes many remote ...
I wasn't expecting you!
... catching a Taxi back home. It was about lunch so we grabbed a quick bite and got ready to head to the airport to go to Antalya. We made it with plenty of time and after several security checks we were on a flight to the southern part of Turkey. We jumped ...
Just chilling
The last couple of days we have been doing absolutely nothing, our prediction of a hard life just proved to be to true. Waking up late for a leisurely breakfast, wilting the rest of the day away on the cushion in the shade before heading down to the ...
May 13, 2012
Alanya
Day 18 of Trip: 1. Day trip to Alanya (2.5 hour transfer) 2. Stalagtite Asthma Cave (Humidity 94%) 3. Hike to ancient castle ...
Patnos: Why Patnos?
... By miserable I don't mean to put it down, just to describe its appearance. This is a very poor, hardscrabble area of Turkey. The people still maintain a friendliness, all the same. I stuck it here because it was mid-afternoon when I got here, ...
Submerged antiquities
... we have come to appreciate on this trip, has been fantastic, but as is often the case for us on this trip, far too brief. Turkey is the navel of civilization; one of the few birthplaces of humankind, so with only 14 days in the country when we took stock ...
Teas and Turkish Delight
... is a short wait for us at the moment!) for a bus to Antalya. We had the whole day to explore the Old Town of Antalya with it's harbour and bazaars. Every shop gave us free samples of pomegranate, apple and spice teas, and samples of different ...
it is how old ?
... glorıous spot to build a city. As we headed off towards Gallıpoli we had one more stop at the most famous ruins of turkey - Ephasis. It is easy to understand why they are so famous as they have put together the ruins so that there are many buildings ...