Turkey

TURKEY

When in Slovenia the leaves is already falling down the trees and hot summer days are replaced with morning mist, you know the autumn and new academic year is knocking on your door. No better way to prepare yourself for long long winter with few days of vacations in the land far south and with excelent company of your friends of course!! :)

Vacations in Alanya, september 2010. 

 -view on Alanya behind us-

After a pretty long ride from the Antalya airport to our hotel 

we just wanted some proper nap.
But next day we were happy about what we see in hotel surrounding :) 

 -Alanya city centre and harbor-

The Mediterranean climate, natural attractions, and historic heritage makes Alanya a popular destination for tourism, and responsible for nine percent of Turkey's tourism sector and thirty percent of foreign purchases of real estate in Turkey (by Wikipedia).
Well we would say no wonder! It really is an amazing place!

-our hotel beach-

But although the city tourism is nice, our purpuse was more then clear: vacations! :) Which means a lot of sand, cold drinks and thinking as less possible :)

After seeing amazing sunset where see is open and horizont extremly wide, we were happy to try some original turkish kebab and learn few steps of traditional turkish dances.

Next morning: coffee and after we went for a trip in inland of Turkey.

To see some nice waterfalls...

...some historical masterpieces like amazing old theatre... 

...or Apollo temple, Side...

...the whole city of Hierapolis...

...and finaly Pamukkale!

This really amazing place is considered today the eighth wonder of the world. It is presumed that the travertines were formed in the course of a process which lasted 15 thousand years. As the water, having a temperature of 34 degrees Calcius, gushing from the underground springs at an elevation of 160 m off the plain of Menderes, with calciumbicarbonate content, flows down the hillsides, carbonmonoxide gas emanates, and the calciumbicarbonate, dissolving thereby, is sedimented, thus forming the white-coloured travertines. Therefore, the area is called Pamukkale (Cotton Castle).

And yet, we saw just a tiny piece of this magnificent country...

Tanja V.