Turtas Club Hotel Alanya

Day 53

Not much to say today. I was pretty lazy for some reason and did not leave the hotel until 11am. Someone else had borrowed the hotel bicycle so I had to get the local bus out to Anemurium ('place of the winds') to see the ancient ruins built by the Byzantines. The city was founded in the 1st century AD but hit hard by an earthquake...

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Nous avons faıt du raftıng dans la gorge de Kropulu. L'eau etaıt bleue, bleue et bleue... et pleın de poıssons. Journee agreable passee en compagnıe de nouveaux amıs de Montreal, Mıchel et Suzanne avec quı on s'en va faıre de la montgolfıere en Cappadoce.

Raft...

In 2500 Jahren Kultur- und H**rschaftsgeschichte kann einiges geschehen. Und so kann man als Kulturfreund an d** Türkischen Rivi**a jeden Tag üb** die üb**wachsenen Trümm** ein** and**en antiken Kleinstadt klett**n, staunt üb** frisch ausgegrabene Statuen römisch** Kais** und griechisch** Gött**, wund**t sich üb** riesige Amphitheat** und Th**me...

Two nights in Silifke We stayed in the Lades Motel in Silifke which is the best place to stay for birdwatchers who want to sample the 320 species in the Goksu Delta, www.ladesmotel.com is the website. The guy who runs it, Nurullah Cinar (the "C" should be with one of those appendices hanging underneath), already for more than 30 years, is a plea...

November 9, 2007 Fethiye, Turkey We are staying at the Yacht Plaza Hotel here in the Mediterranean resort town of Fethiye. It's a beautiful place with a picturesque harbor. The hotel is listed as a three star and we are given one of the best rooms on a corner of the building so we have two balconies overlooking the harbor. At the docks below the...

After all the rock formations we had seen it was time to head back to the coast for some sea and sand. So it was off to a place on the water called Kizkalesi. Firstly we headed along the beach and found an absolute bargain place right on the beach with a perfect view of Maiden's Castle out in the middle of the water. We spent 2 nights here sunba...

Hi folks hope everyone is well we having a great time seeing some amazing stuff and mixing hardout sight seeing with some flatout relaxing GOOD TIMES!! So Sulcuk was a nice laidback town and we went to the ruins of Ephesus which were in pretty good condition compared to troy some restoration had been done but pretty tastfully so as not to ruin t...

Hi everyone - thıs blog wıll turn out funny as we're on a Turkısh keyboard. We arrived in Istanbul 28th Aprıl to spend a few days checking out the sites before heading off on our middle east tour. We stayed in the backpacker district in Sultanahmet which is pretty geared up for kiwis and aussies. The locals probably know more maori than the...

Yo - well as u can c from the title I didnt get up to v much today in Antalya. I didnt go on any excursions, I didnt visit any paying city tourist attractions and I didnt really hike up any steep city hills to visit ministerial villas. In fact all I really did was just stroll semi aimlessly round the lovely old quarter of Antalya - Kaleici - wit...

Chapter Summary Southern Turkey _______________________________________ ____________________ 26 Sept, Monday Start point: Elsazi, Karacaoren Baraji End point: Anatalya Via: Perge Odom(Km): 90.59 Moving(hrs.mim): 5.33 Ave(Km/h): 16.3 Total Ascent(m): 613 Max Altitude(m) 474 Max Speed(Km/h): 59.6 Made it to the coast at last. I have traversed Turk...