Kaş, Antalya

Once an unspoiled fishing village, Kaş is now a relatively unspoiled tourist town on the southern bulge of Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, a two hours’ drive southeast of Fethiye and three hours’ drive southwest of Antalya.

Kaş is everything that a typical Mediterranean seaside resort in Turkey should be. White-washed houses cascade down the winding mountain roads to show the way to beautiful beaches and a harbor that reminds you that life is in fact quite good. While in Kaş, the best thing to do is to adapt quickly to the Mediterranean lifestyle.

Like many towns in this area, there used to be a huge Greek population until 1923 when there was an exchange of citizens between Greece and Turkey. Many of the houses in Kaş are surrounded with pink bougainvillea flowers that immediately make you notice the influence of Greek architecture in some of the older properties, typically the wooden shutters, narrow streets and large terraces for enjoying the mid-day sun.


Things to do in Kaş

Kaş itself is a quiet, pleasant town with its blue sea and narrow streets scented with jasmine flowers. There are plenty of little guest houses, quiet cafes serving home cooking or small bars in which to relax. Kaş has an annual arts festival, jazz concerts in the Hellenistic theater and many different exhibitions.

Kaş is one of the leading spots for scuba diving in Turkey. There are more than 15 dive centers and diving schools, mostly located at the local port. Diving in Kaş offers a beautiful array of fish and other sea creatures like octopus and sea turtles. Besides the biological diversity, Kaş offers a vast variety of underwater cultural heritage. Among various wreck sites, six artificial wrecks are worth visiting. These wrecks were submerged to create artificial reefs and touristic diving spots.

Paragliding might not be for everyone, but if you have a crazy edge, Kaş is a great place to paraglide. The views are beautiful. After a 10-minute drive up the mountain, you run off the paraglide point and away you go, drifting over the town, enjoying the beautiful views before landing in the marina.

The ruins of Xanthos and Patara Beach are also worth seeing. The ruins are a 10-minute walk from the bus stop and are quite impressive. They are also free to enter. The site and the river of Xanthos, which is called Letoon, have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In this respect, the site is definitely a must-see for everyone. After you finish walking around the site, you can catch the minibus back and spend the rest of the day at Patara. If you want to continue exploring ruins, the Lycian city of Patara has plenty of ruins.

If you want to relax and enjoy the sea, Kaputaş Beach, around 18 kilometers west of Kaş, is one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Kaputaş is a medium-sized beach tucked away in a mountain cove. It’s a very easy drive if you have a scooter or a car. The unique thing about Kaputaş is the stunning color of the water where the mountain fresh water meets the sea. It is quite magical.

The Greek Island of Meis is just a 20-minute boat trip away, making it the perfect day trip. There are a couple of large boats leaving at 10 a.m. and returning at 3 pm. Meis is a small, pure island which provides just the perfect taste of Greece. It’s a great place to swim, eat and relax. There is a booking office in Kaş town; you should book the day before. If you head to Meis, be sure to visit the Blue Cave; it is stunning.
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Turkish Medical Tourism

Turkish Medical Tourism,

People who don't want to pay astronomical or who are in middle income group may prefer Turkey for high quality medical service.
The registered number of hospital amount in Turkey is 1453 until 2011. People amount working in that sector is above 500 thousand. Last year 262 thousand people came to Turkey to get benefit from health services. Most of these visits are because of eye and hair surgeries.

Turkey News

Turkey News will give daily and important news from the cities of Turkey that you are interested in. Start navigation in cities news pages.

Money saving in Turkey: Best Travel Card To Turkey

It is better use domestic currency in Turkey. I can recommend İş Bankası to exchange currency. You can find so many atm around Turkey. You can use credit cards in nearly small, medium or large companies.
Before coming to Turkey i advise that call your bank that you took your credit card, travel card or debit card and learn which rates they will charge if you withdraw money from Turkey or use the cards in POS machines.

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In hotels they will give low rates for foreign exchange. It is better to compare the rates in foreign exchange shops and the banks.
Bargaining is possible in Turkey While shopping. Af course not in big Organizational shops. But it is possible to bargain in relatively small ones.
Preferences places that native shop to get better prices an quality.
If you hesitate anything about prices email me, i will try to advise.
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Favorite foods in Turkey

Summary of traditional food:
Döner
Kebap
İskender
Çiğ Köfte
Kokoreç
Pide
Dolma
Mantı
Kuru fasulye
Baklava
Famous drink with alcohol  is Turkish Rakı
Turkish Delight
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Turkish Language

To visit and travel Turkey, generally speaking you don't need to learn turkish language. But if you have special interest to learn another language then I recommend you TÖMER courses given by Ankara University.
In touristic places you will find German, English and russian speaking tourism workers. Ordinary people may know English. Here are some examples of Turkish language:
Hi: Merhaba
How are u : Nasılsınız
What is the price: Fiyatı Nedir
Hospital: Hastane
Pharmacy : Eczane
Thank you: Teşekkürler
Good morning: Günaydın
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General Information About Turkey

Turkey is a country around 800.000 km square and has population around 80 million. There are four seas around Turkey. Black sea, Marmara Sea, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean. Thousands of years old historical places are available. Winter and summer tourism is available. Population has more density in cities.
The currency is TL. Exchange rate can be described  like that: 1 dollar is around 2,8 TL and 1 Euro is 3,2 TL.
İstanbul, Ankara, Bursa, Eskişehir, Adana, Antalya, Gaziantep, Trabzon, İzmir are the biggest cities.

Bozüyük, Bilecik, Turkey

Bozüyük, Bilecik,Turkey
Bozoyük is one of the biggest provinces of Bilecik.  Maybe as big as Bilecik. Organic vegetable,  fruits, cheese and bread are famous. It has historical importance as a Ottoman heritage. There are many factories in Bilecik. Vitra is an important one

Transportation to Turkey

Transportation from all over the world to Turkey is easy. There are several opportunities that you can use to come to Turkey.
Airways, buses, railways and ships can be used to arrive to Turkey.
Turkish Airlines is the most prestigious air company of all. They will serve free food and drink. Also there are alternatives like Atlas Airways and Pegasus Airways.
Transportation inside Turkey is easy too. Roads have generally good quality. High speed trains are available between big cities. You can use planes to travel inside Turkey too.

Is Turkey safe for travelling

Safety issues in Turkey,

Nowadays there are so many news about terrorist attacks in Turkey. Paris, USA and  some other western cities experienced that trouble. Not far away from northeast part of Turkey, there is war between Isis and the other groups. These extreme and different kind of war threats all over the world.

There are so many parts of Turkey that you can be extremely far away from this threats. This rare attacks were seen in metropols like Ankara and Istanbul. So you can be sure that you are safe if you are in a natural place or a historical place a little bit away from big cities' central points.

Birlik Mahallesi, Ankara,Turkey

Birlik mahallesi is a peaceful district for living. It is very near to prime minister house and deputies' residences. So it is very safe for living. There are some Embassies too in Birlik mahallesi. Lozan park is one of the attractive places in the district. 365 avm is the biggest shopping Mall in here. Eymir lake and Elmadağ is very near. In Elmadağ you can find skiing opportunities. Paintball and some nature sports can be done in near villages.

Birlik mahallesi is a place that you can select for living secure and have the opportunity  to reach the city centre easily.

Gölbaşı, Ankara

Gölbaşı is one of the attractive places that makes people visit especially at the Weekends in Ankara. There are two lakes for testing and sightseeing. Eymir and Mogan lakes. Eymir is the property of Middle East Technical University but open för all people especially if you don't try to enter with car. Riding Bike is welcomed here. Also people make jogging in Eymir. Near Mogan you will find so many places especially för brunch and eating meat. Also there is a big park för commonly used especially for picnic near Mogan

Antalya, Turkey

Antalya is always racing İstanbul in tourism. All included concept can be found in hotels in Antalya. Hundreds of hotels that are Suitable to all budgets can be found. In summer in Thé morning two hours later if you want you can ski in snow in mountains. Also you can make rafting and all kinds öf water sports in Antalya.

Diyarbakır, Turkey

Diyarbakır,

Is one of the most ancient cities in Middle East.  It is interaction point of so many Roads. Most famous of all is silk road. Diyarbakır castle is a known historical place. Also very big melons are known spesifik to that region. Dicle River is passing through in that region.

Çesme,Izmir

It is the pearl of Aegean region. It is easy to travel from Izmir. Highways are available. Touristically, all the passions can be satisfied from diving to surfing in here. Alacati is the one of the top places for surfing.

Istanbul, Turkey capital of the world.

Istanbul is one of the most known cities in the world. You can rank it top ten in the world for many aspects.

Izmir, Turkey

Some people say that Izmir is one of the most beautiful city in the world suitable for living if you like sea and warm weather.

Ankara, Turkey

Ankara is the capital city of Turkey. Over 4 million of population live in Ankara. Ankara is a city that is economically active because of government presence in the city. Also there are so many universities and hospitals inside. Defense and cyber soft companies give economy of Ankara some dynamism too. Some of the biggest publicly owned companies general management is Ankara. Also foreign countries embassy are in this city.

Eskisehir, Turkey

Eskisehir, Turkey
Eskisehir is one of the biggest cities in Turkey. By recent improvements, one can say that Eskisehir seems like a European city. A tourist can find both good shopping places and historical places at the same time. Very well organized attractive parks are available in Eskisehir. People are modern. There are channels like Venice. So we can tell that this is a city like Venice in Turkey.

Teachers' guesthouse

Above pictures are belong to the Teachers House. That is a hotel for teachers.  But other people can stay in this hotel too. That is very near to Eskişehir  city centre.

Travellers to Eskişehir is very easy because there are multiple and good quality ways to reach here. Roads are very modern and there is high speed train. Don't hesitate to come here if you have time.

Above  pictures are belong to the  city centre of Eskişehir. Tramvay are used other than buses and minibus  for intercity transportation.  Afcourse taxi a possible choice. 

 

One of the famous food of Eskişehir is çibörek and I advise you to eat it in Kırım Çibörekçisi. You can find it in Kentpark.

Above pictures are all taken from Kentpark. It is a marvellous park with a beach inside and opportunity to eat delicious traditional çibörek.  I am sure that park is beautiful as the park in USA or Moscow or Paris. 

This car is very famous for Turkish people. Cars name is Devrim. It is the first car produced professionally in Turkey.

Above pictures  are taken in Sazova park. Waterhouse, science park,Miniature city a castle, pirate ship can be found in this park

Haller region is attractive for youth. There are cafes and bars in this han.

Also there is wax museum. There are sculptures and statues of famous people like Barack Obama, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Einstein etc.

Cebeci,Izmit,Kocaeli

Cebeci Izmit,

Cebeci is a place that you can feel more dynamic compared to Keep or Kefken. Young population is enjoying the beautiful atmosphere in here. There are many little cafes and a lunapark in Cebeci. At the end of the seashore there is the biggest cafe that has alive and beautiful music. Waiters are gentle and helpful.
Cebeci is 5 minutes far away from Kefken and 15 minutes far away from Kerpe

Kefken, Izmit

Kefken,Izmit

Kefken
Izmit
It is ten minutes far away from Kerpe. If you have time to go outside Kerpe this will be the first place you will see. A small fishing village. Kefken is a place generally for summer houses. Very little touristic activity can be observed hear. But you can find a bazaar for organic product in Sundays. At the east part you will see an attractive place  named as Pembroke kayalar. Sun set is beautiful around Kefken. It is another cute black sea district.

These photos all reflects the beauty of Kefken approaching midnight.

Kerpe, Izmit

Kerpe
İzmit
A beautiful place near Karadeniz.  It has beaches which has blue flag. You can expect that beaches will be crowded at the weekends. It is surrounded by forests. Very cute city center will be enough to satisfy your tastes for drinking and eating. There is one big hotel on the edge of Kerpe. This is Hotel Lidya. It is a new hotel and trying to attract customers. To use its beach you should pay around 6 euros.
The other hotels are very smaller than that one. I personally recommend Alper Apart hotel to stay in. There is more than meets the eye in Kerpe. There are several beaches to explore even to get the opportunity to swim in a noncrowded place. In center of Kerpe there are two beaches. One is big and cheap. The other one is a little more expensive and small one. First one in average cost 5 euros and second one costs a little bit more. But if you walk a little bit more you will recognize a middle size beach that is not so much crowded and get warm water and sand inside.
You can find tasty fish in Kaptan Restaurant. Very near to this restaurant you can try different tastes of Turkey like kokoreç, oyster boiled or fried etc.
At the very center of Kerpe there is big cafe that can try delicious Turkish cofee and tea. 270 km away from Kerpe you will reach one of the top cities of Turkey, Eskisehir. In the first picture you will see the hidden beach that you can find by walking 5 minutes.
In the third picture you can see the greatest beach in here. It is generally crowded. The beaches in Kerpe has blue flags.

Beach very near to Kerpe centre. But not the crowded one in the centre

Above pictures is from the centre cafe of Kerpe. You can find delicious tea and Turkish cafe there.