Antalya Pensions

... liked, we opted for the Big Mac instead of a Doner Kebab.  The old section is where all the boutique hotels and pensions are found as well as the nicer restaurants and cafes.  Literally when you crossed the street from the new section into ...

... . "The Turks," she says, " are miserable but they cannot beat me."  She speaks perfect Turkish, runs one of the nicest pensions we have seen with her cat, Bari and dog, Sarah as companions along with 2 chickens and 17 tortoises, welcomes Turks and ...

... of a serious crime; disowned by friends and family because of embarrassment - apple tea used as welcome drink by shop owners, pensions and residents I would have told our driver just to skip Antalya since he was having such a hard time finding the ...

... nbsp;Lycian city of the same name, Olympos is a wonderful little cove of rural relaxation. Numerous small, private hotels and pensions dot the area, offering luxury accommodation options for a reasonable price (40-50 YTL), nice rooms for a good price ...

... the main highway was steep, twisting and through lovely forested mountains. Once at the town, a back-to-basic appearance with small Pensions and hotels spread out along either side of the small main (and only) road, leading all the way down to and along ...

... gorgeous harbour, windy old narrow back passages with fine restored Ottoman houses that have now been converted into snug pensions, charming restaurants cum bistros slash cafes or even the ubiquitous carpet shops. The harbour is picture perfect ...

... or so back out of Olympos and over the hills to the neighbouring village of Cirali by road. Admittedly Cirali was overrun with pensions and guesthouses almost as much as Olympos was, but it managed to hide them a little better - they didn’t line ...

... kms though the narrow valley floor, then opens out on a beautiful curving beach. It's all just gorgeous. There are a lot of pensions and small family owned hotels here, but none of the huge hotel complexes jamming the beaches closer to Antalya, and so ...

... over to Olympos. It was nothing special. The beach was very crowded and the town itself was just a dirt road with restaurants and pensions. The ruins of Olympus were not that special. In the words of Danny, he believed that they just took some rocks from ...

... back from some of the couch surf requests i have sent out.  i definetely need to cs more in the coming week as pensions can be expensive.  i have also decided that my eyewhitness guide book, while good as i consider myself a visual learner, it ...

... these places and started visiting which created a small tourist industry where backpackers used local transport to stay in small pensions. Towns shifted their economies towards tourism more and more and developers moved in building more and bigger hotels. ...

... tree house idea has been mass produced though, so really most of them are little cabins on stilts. Still a very intriguing picture. The pensions spread for about 2 km, then yuo get to the entrance of the ancient city of Olimpos. From there it is about a ...

... town with a nice central plaza surrounded by restaurants, open air cafes and shops.   We bypass the guidebook’s recommended pensions and end up at El Kapitans.  The owner is a very nice gentleman in his 80’s that speaks almost ...

... I decided to only stop in one southern city - Antalya.  The Old Town area is very touristy - filled with pensions, souvenir shops, and restaurants geared toward tourists.  The beach area is filled with expensive hotels and package tourists from ...

After leaving the boat Dave and I were dropped off in Olympus, which has many pensions, all featuring tree houses.  Olympus is on the mediterranean coast and is home to ruins and the famous Mount Olympus; it's definitely a backpackers ...

... in a national part and i think is a heritage site.  there are no hotels, just 'treehouses', where are like cabin/pensions.  hidden through the forest are the ruins of the city of Olympos, which dates from late Hellenistic and Roman times.  ...

... and dinner. Breakfast was Turkish and dinners were a big buffet with various salads and same main courses. Quite good and people from other pensions raved about it as well. My original intention was to stay 2 or 3 nights but that turned into 5 as it was ...

... it and all though blantantly touristy it was a great place to chill out, party hard or both. There were half a dozen different pensions to stay at, all with their own unique point of interest. We stayed in the Orange Pension Tree House, amid the shady ...