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Antalya Slideshow
Antalya
Travel Blogs from Antalya, Turkey
Ewokin' it up in Ancient Olympos
And so it be, on day the fourth, Avast ye!..the mediterranean stood conquered and quivering, as the pirates of the blue gulet went land ho, to pillage forth, on to the next adventure... Faster than you can scream "Parre Lunge, ye scurvy dogs" our ...
Spelunking, Sailing and Soaping?
... yogurt – very interesting. After another 90 minutes in the bus, we were pulling into the seaside resort town of Antalya. The terrain and housing looked very similar to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with big mountains rising up out of the sea, ...
Bus Stations
I'm in the bus staion or ''Otogar''. It's not very exciting really. In fact, it's so unexciting that I'm writing this. Overnight bus to Göreme in half an hour. The internet in this place wont let you go on youtube and doesn't have flash so you can't ...
ADELPHIA BLUE VOYAGE TOUR
... are separated from those of the passengers. Ensuring the continued comfort of guests is their main priority. MORE INFO These scripts and photographs are registered under © Copyright 2006, Adelphia Tours / Antalya - Turkey. All Rights ...
Tag 5: Phaselis bis Myra
... . Die einst reiche antike Hafenstadt Phaselis, 15 km weiter Im Süden wurde zwar Jahrhunderte lang für den Bau von Antalya als Steinbruch geplündert, glänzt aber immer noch mit einer einmaligen Lage auf einer kleinen Halbinsel vor der Bergkulisse, ...
Tag 6: Myra, Andriake, Kas und Patara
Hinter dem schönen Amphitheater von Myra, vorbei an uralten Felsengräbern, klettern wir früh am Karfreitagmorgen ein ausgewaschenes Bachbett hinauf, über Stock und Stein und durch Gestrüpp, um hoch oben von der Akropolis eine tolle Aussicht über ...
cruising the Med
... are prepared and served for you. The food was actually quite good, to my surprise. Overall if you were a vegetarian visiting Turkey you would have no problems at all. Most of the passengers were from Australia, although there was a Canadian family from ...
Worth backtracking to see this great town
... we backtracked and went to the city of Kalkan. Good thing we did because this is now my favorite town in all of Turkey. It is very small with a lot of charm, great restaurants over looking the water, less tourists, and great boutiques. ...
A B&Q Shed with a View
From Pamukkale we headed down to Dalyan via an incredible mountain range. Rural Turkey seems to have many bullet holed road signs in amongst the goats and donkeys. However, Dalyan is by far the most tourist oriented place we have visited and how Steve did ...
Leaving Antalya - The story of Hanni and Cordelia
... you in Hugo's capable hands with a long but very well written and beautiful account of our last day in Antalya. --- Denis ---------Hugo here ---- This morning we said goodbye to Antalya and sadly to our fantastic hostess and pension owner, ...
Is Michael Jackson really dead?
... picked up by a shuttle bus and taken to a drop off point. From there we were taken on another shuttle bus to the harbour in Antalya. There were about fourteen of us on the bus and we all figured we would be together on the boats. As we are riding ...
Phaselis, Trying to find Kaleici (Antalya)
... the old oscar cinema' you will be near the our hotel...Our oll adress is: MEDITERRA ART HOTEL- Barbaros Mah.Zafer sok. No:5 KALEIÇI/ANTALYA. You can write this adress and you can ask some taxi driver...We will wait yo, see you... We knew we were in ...
Quiz Day!
It was very hard to leave our snugly warm cave at 5am in the morning whilst it was freezing cold outside. I would say it was hovering around the 0 degrees mark. Unfortunately I had forgotten to take a picture of our actual campsite to show you how cool ...
Treehouse heaven
Olympos now! We're all staying in tree houses with a mattress on the floor but we are stoked as get a room all to ourselves!! This is where we are staying for the next 3 nights http://www.sabanpansion.com/ Also just to let ...
Chimaera
After a winding road and a moderate hill climb we come to an vegetated area of hillside. This is Chimaera where there a a few dozen crevices in the hillside with flames burning from them. A truely unusual sight. Dawn sits by one of the larger flames and ...
Turkish Delights!
... imagine what it was like 2000 years ago before wars, earthquakes, silting and tourist hordes. Right now we are in Olympos, southern Turkey. It ıs on the Mediteranean Sea, and very nice to swim in despite it being Autumn here. The place we are staying ...
Ancient myths, ancient ruins
This is a top pick! ... that made up the village centre, before heading back to our hotel to wait for our transfer to take us to the airport at Antalya. After the problems we had with our transfer not turning up on time when we arrived in Dalaman, thankfully we had no such ...
Suddenly, Turkey!
... practice solar gazing. “We have sunrises and moonrises”, answered Pinar, the owner of Myland Nature Otel in Çirali, Turkey, and shortly after that I booked my flight. What waited for me in Çirali was literally a manifestation of the dream I ...
I'm on a boat.....
... records his earnings into a Hannah Montana notebook, seriously). I digress... This was an amazing place to go and I highly recommend it! Off to bed, tomorrow we have a beach day and take the overnight bus from Antalya to Goreme, Cappadocia. ...
Olympus Flames
Cirali is just up from a place called Olympus... So what i hear ya say.. Well behind Cirali there is a mountain called Mt Olympus and it is the home of the eternal flame... Yep there is flames coming straight out of the rocks. We headed up after dark for ...
Kas and Antalya
... we find ourselves searching out local eateries, alternative touring arrangements, and Internet cafes with our new friends. In Antalya, we visited a wonderful museum with an excellent collection of fossils, pottery, bronze age tools, Hellenistic ...
Flaming Mountains!
I got to sit in the cab with James the driver on the drive from Oludeniz to Olympos. Basically the job of the cab passenger is to help navigate but mostly to entertain James. Luckily he had driven the route before so I had little to do with the former! I ...
Playing with fire
Jeannie here. One exciting newsflash is that Sean had a barber shave off the mustache! I could and did leap for joy when he came back to the room looking like himself again. Thank you all for your support on this ...
Another Sloth Out Day
... seem while lying by the pool and trying to camouflage the tourist tan), Chris for more reading now he's found and interesting book on Turkey. Also at the pool were a couple of Swiss families who are staying here - 2 mums and 3 really nice young kids ...
Chillin in some tree houses
Last night was spent sleeping in a tree house (well b&q shed on stilts), it was amazing....all that room, and we even have proper mattresses, how excellent... This is such a chilled place, the only thing to do is lounge about and drink happy cappy's ...
Chilling in A Treehouse
... all that inspiring. I did meet a couple who were just completing the lycian way which is a hike along the southern coast of turkey and from all reports this sounds like a fantastic way to spend a couple of weeks. I think ill definately have to return ...
The Turkish coast is packed with old ruins
... . City gate Gate towers Baths General views Hidden mosaics Agora Antalya __________________________________________________________ 27 Sept, Tuesday Start point: Anatalya city tour First stop ...
Why don't they have beach clubs in California?
... here in Kas, thank you Trip Advisor and Adam. We spend the night wandering around town, our new favorite so far in turkey, and grab a quick dinner at a local Turkish restaurant. Anyone who is touring the Turquoise Coast must stop in Kas it is ...