I have found my new haven and it is a beach in Bozbuk. This beach is going to be my place to get away from it all. My place to relax, unwind and calm down when daily life gets too much. Bozbuk beach is a place that has gone straight to my heart. The strange aspect is that the beach is just part of a small village which is not really attractive at all. Bozbuk as a village consists of a holiday complex and a dirty housing site as you drive into the area. There are small Turkish cottages dotted over the landscape that don’t really catch your eye. I ignored all of these buildings and concentrated...

Alara Inn (Alara Han) Built in 1232 by Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat, the Alara Inn is located on Alara Creek. The 2000 m2 inn is made entirely of cut stone. The guardhouse, fountain, mosque and baths are in mint conditiona and certainly worth seeing. Hadrian’s Gate (Hadrianus) Today the historical old city of Antalya known as Kaleici (the inner castle) is surrounded by two walls, most of which have fallen down. The inner wall encloses the harbour in a semicircle. As a result of restoration, Kaleici has turned into a major tourist centre with guest-hou-ses, bars, shops and restaurants, and the Roman...

Since the city was established on top of the old city of Antiphellos in Central Lycia there not much remains that survived until the present day. There are regular city wall remains on the city’s acropolis which looks on the side of Meis Island. The city has a theater that survived with very little damage looking down the sea on the right side of the road going to Çukurbağ. The most famous monument of Kaş is a sarcophagus formed from a single block on Uzun Çarşı Avenue among the rug shops. Kaş which is the closest spot to Meis Island is a natural paradise in addition to the...

Turkey’s Cappadocia region is considered to be one of the most beautiful in the country. The region known as Cappadocia or Kapadokya in the native Turkish, is situated in Central Anatolia and is known the world around for its moon-like landscape and its mysterious underground cities, churches and houses carved into rocks. The wonderfully weird and unusual rock formations called fairy chimneys were created over the span of millions of years of rains and winds and due to the interesting characteristics of the region the human culture that has inhabited Cappadocia ever since prehistoric times has...

Kapali Carsi (Grand Bazaar) Istanbul is worth seeing for the shopping alone. And the Kapali Carsi or “Abgedeckt Bazaar”, in the old town is the logical starting point. This labyrinth of streets and passages houses more than 4,000 shops. The names recall the days when each trade had its own quarter “goldsmiths’ street”, “carpet sellers Street”, “The street of the skull cap of makers”. You sit down for tea with some of the seller and let them enchant you to buy a few souvenirs that you never realized you wanted. Pamukkale Chances are your first...