Month: January 2020

Aspendos

Big cities once dominated the area east of Antalya. One of them was Aspendos, which fascinated us with its nearly complete theatre, which is said to be the best-preserved theatre of antiquity. But there was more that the Romans had left here, and we went to explore it. Theatre of Aspendos Like Perge and Side, …

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Perge

Yes, another ancient city, and an important one, and of course not the last one. You might think we are obsessed with ancient cities. Maybe! But every one of them surprises us again, with their size, their luxury, their standard of living at a time when in Central Europe we were still sitting around the …

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Termessos

From Antalya, it is a short drive to visit an ancient town which lies in the Taurus mountains only 30 km from Antalya but at 1.000 metres. At Termessos, nothing was excavated until now and all the stones lie as the earthquakes had thrown them hundreds of years ago. Even more fascinating for us was …

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Fire!!!!

Actually we were not surprised when we walked into the mountains behind Çirali, to find little fires burning between the rocks, but just imagine you reached this spot and had no idea! In Çirali we had parked at the sandy and wide beach, from where we started our hike the next day into the mountains. …

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Olympos in Turkey

We reached Olympos more on accident than intentionally, but when our navigation took us there, implying that this is the road to Çirali and sending us through a ford, we bought the tickets and went on a walk through the jungle. Crossing the river to get to Olympos Olympus was a city in ancient Lycia, situated …

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Chat with Anthony @ Arykanda

From Finike we wanted to find the archaeological site of Limyra, but missed the turn-off and landed instead further inland at Arykanda, where we met a lovely old man, who showed us around. Anthony Quinn dubber We had parked near the sign to Arykanda, but were not sure where to go. An old man addressed …

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