Cesme turkey

It is one of the most liked holiday resorts in Turkey because it has got golden blonde,sands as thin as strand and beaches,ice-cold spring waters ,hot springs,the beauty of the nature covered with no other like flora.It is still becoming the beautiful face of İzmir but Cemse hotels ,vacation homes makes it a concrete jungle.It is ninety kilom. away from İzmir,on the Cemse bay.Cesme Bodrum- Cesme İzmir – Cesme Marmaris are important destinations for yatchers and cesme ferry.

cesme holiday

Cesme Caravansary is now a hotel.
Cesme Museum displays hundreds of remanings from Erythrai coming from ancient times to nowadays.
Cesme yatch marine has got a large capacity for a hundred and fifty yatches.
Sifne thermal springs,water are visited for spa massage and bath.Doctors suggest here for thermotherapy and skin diseases.
The castle is the host of music contests.
Cesme Alacati wharf can contain eighty yatches.
Cesme travel would be your right decision for the holiday.

Cesme Hotels

Most comfortable hotel in Cesme is Sheraton Hotel Cesme.

It had not been noticed by  people.It became a much frequented resort after holidaymakers explored it.Time is passing  fast and introduced it to us.The masterpiece with three km beach is  the center of attraction by explorers,discoverer,tourists.Tough the incoming people increase  clearness of the sea protects itself. Simplicity of tree houses or bungalows,stone pies, eucalyptuses,oranges and pomegranates are impressive.
It is located between Adrasan and Kemer.ıf you move from Antalya , go as fas as Ulupinar and turn to southwest there. Olympos cruises would be the right choice to see around.

Restaurants in Olympos Kemer

You can not see any restaurants near the coast because this area is under protection.Cafes and small restaurants serves a few km. away.

National park:Kemer and kumluca towns are in the border of it.The most significant part of the park is that caretta carettas (loggerhead turtles) are coming here to nest and lay eggs.

Yanartaş ( Burning Stone) : It is believed the flames has been burning since ancient times.You have to climb up for half an hour from Cirali.If the weather is dark take your torch.

Ulupinar : The resting place is with mighty plane trees and cold water after Phaselis.The area covered with forests is restful.
Bye the way there are buses for  Olympos Fethiye.

Olympos Lodge

Olympos hotel cirali is  in mount olympus

Izmir Bergama

Bergama which is in the Bakircay catchment is on the North of İzmir,one hundred km away.It has got archaeological findings from Ionia,Roman, Byzantium times.In Bergama Museum you will see all of them.Bergama temple(pergamum),Zeus altar was highjacked to Germany decades ago and great altar of zeus pergamon was dispalyed there.Serapis Temple, Asklepion and acropol on three hundred metres high hill are known as the charms of the historical area.
It is the famous touristic town with Kozak plateau,Ayvalık beaches,developed weaving-textile industry and Bergama carpets kilims making, aged leather bottle cheese.
Its name was Pergamon before.Milet (Miletos ) is the neighbour of it.
The weather in Bergama is hot and dry in summers,warm and rainy in winters.

Deep blue waters of Aegean Sea are extending to horizons charming you.Many big and small islands call you to get out of loneliness and relections of the sun is not lacking in the boundless sky.Around is covered with black pines and cedar forests. Historical monuments ornaments every side.Canyons,valleys,fine bays are perhaps the most beautiful side of it.The unbelievable part is to fly and to watch the all wonders through two thousand metres high ground.The flight will start and Oludeniz,Gocek,Butterflies valley,Patara,Lykia way,Saklıkent,Letoonia fethiye,Hisaronu Turkey will be under your feet like a bird.Persian,Lykian,Karian,Roman civilizations are eyewitnessed by paragliding.
If you visit Butterfly valley(kelebekler vadisi),you will see the tiger butterflies-EUPLAGİA QUADRİPUNCTARİA- which exist in a fews areas in the world.

Holidays in Fethiye

Hotels in fethiye are generally along the Calis beach.Fethiye is shining in the middle of  these charms.In Fethiye city center sarcophaguses belonging to roman times, the castle which is the sample of the medieval architecture,antique theatre with five thousand capacity are winking at travellers in Turkey.Another ecological value ,Saklıkent(hide city), is the another resort for visitors.A difficult trekking destination is taken,you can not see the sky ,lagoons and sets are hard to pass but when you arrive after nine kilometres you bath in the healing mud as a gift.When you think the hot weather in fethiye you will probably get cooler.

Things to do in Fethiye

Olu deniz Fethiye

You can go there by buses from city centre. Turquoise blue water is still and wave free.Into Oludeniz there is a hot water spring which make you feel you are in a hot turkish bath,hamam.
Butterfly valley: It is not hard to perceive it is one of the most fascinating bay in Turkey.The valley takes its name from the butterflies which live in the far away corner ,hard to reach.You can not reach there via vehicles ,you need to join a boat tour.To stay in wood houses and tents would leave a different flavour in your mouths. How to go to Fethiye: İstanbul 700 km.,Ankara 665 km.,İzmir 355 km.Dalaman airport fourty km away.Cheap Flights from Antalya airport 200 km away.Marmaris,Bodrum,Kusadasi,Alanya Kas are close neighbours.Marmaris Fethiye Olympos cruises are much preferred from Fethiye marina.

Fethiye Hotels

Hillside beach club fethiye,mediteran hotel,lykia world,land of lights,blue cruise,pink palace,ece saray.Property for sale in fethiye is not that expensive.
Fethiye map

Map of fethiye

Hagia Sophia Museum was built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in 537 AC at the ancient city center of Istanbul.This construction named “Hagia Sophia” which means “Holy Wisdom” was completed in six years.
Considered as one of the eight wonders of the world,Hagia Sophia is one of the most important works of History of art and architecture.It ıs seen as the rare work which survived at this age and dimensions.Three individual basilacas built in the location of a previous pagan temple were built under the same title .Even though not inverted into a church during the term of the Emperor Constantine the Great,some references set forth that the first Hagia Sohia basilica was built by him.The small sized wooden roof first construction was built in the second half of the fourth century by Constantinus ,son of Constantine the Great.The second church which was built in larger dimensions in place of the first construction which burned in 404 during a civil riot was opened in the year 415.The bloody revolt which occured as the result of a carriage race held at the Hippodrome in the year 532,caused the death of then thousands of the citizens and burning a lot of buildings.In this revolt known as “Nika” and developed against the Emperor Justianian,Hagia Sophia Church was also burned.
Justinian who suppressed the revolt diffucultly ,decided a sanctuary to be built which ‘ has not been seen since Adam and shall never be seen.’This greatest church of the Christian world was started to be constructed over the ruins of the previous basilica in the year 532 and completed within five years and opened with ceremony in 537 .The Emperor threw the state treasury in front of the architectures without any attempt to avoid expense(Anthemius from Tralles and the mathematician Isidorus from Miletos).Dome construction was developed by Roman architecture.The plan of the basilica was being applied since the ancient times.Round constructions could be covered by domes to a great extent.But tthe construction of a gigantic central dome in the middle of the rectangular space like the one at Justian’s Hagi Sophia,was tried for the first time in arctitectural history.While the protective prayers of priests were continuing , a number of various marbles and columns brought from ancient age ruins available almost at any place of the Empire,were used in the construction.Later alot of strories of origin have been made up for those gathered materials,mainly for columns,and who knows why.In the Justinian Period ,Hagia Sophia appeared as the product of elegance and enjoyment.However in the following periods,it was accepted as a myth and symbol.On the other hand its dimensions could not be exceeded for a period of a thousand years and considered as mythical due to financial and technical diffculties,otherwise such a construction was supposed to be built only with the help of the holy powers.Though Hagia Sophia is a work of the sixth century Byzantine period,it is an Trial based on Roman Tradition,without any pre-example and has not been tried in the following periods.The contrats between exterior and interior appearances and giant dome are the heredeties of Rome.Its exterior appearance is not elegant and proportions have not been considered but it has been built as a shell.But on the contrary,it iis interior appearance is magnificent and eye catching like a place;the construction is a huge work of the Empire.At the opening ceremony the Emperor who could not control his excitement rushed into the temple in this horse carriage and thanked God and he shouted that he is superior to Prophet Solomon.It was developed as a great religious center with its huge buildings surrounding the Basilica.Now the stage was ready for the Byzantine Emperors and the East Christian churches disputes that would last for years.Despite its unique and superior construction it had vital faults.Most important was the hugeness of dome and the pressure it exerted on sidewalls.Architectural elements necessary for transmitting the weight of sch a dome upon foundations has not been developed yet in that period.Walls that curve outwards from sides witnessed the ruining of the original and pressed dome in the year 558.The second dome built was higher and with smaller diameter .Almost half of this dome collapsed twice first in the tenth and then in the fourteenth centuries.
Hagia Sophia could be heald straight by making huge expenses amounting to a treasury in each period.After the Turks conquered the city in 1453the ruined Hagia Sophia was saved by being immediately converted into mosque.The supporting walls added by the Turkish architect Koca Sinan in the sixteenth century the restorations made in the nineteenth century by Architect Fosatti brothers and other restorations made starting from 1930 and wrapping an iron belt around the dome are important repairs.H.S,after serving for two religions believing in the same God,as the main church in 916 and as a mosque in 477 was made into a museum by the order of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.Some of the mosaics found out and cleaned between the years 1930-1935 are among the significant works art of Byzantium.It is one of three museums visited the most with its magnificent architecute which bears the traces of both the Byzantine and the Ottoman Ages.
Museum entrance inside the courtyard is the original gate at the west side which was started to be reused after many centuries.By the side of the entrance,the ruins of the second building may be seen.The outer corridor from where those who are not baptized can enter,pens to the inner corridor by five doors which opens through nine doors to the main part of the church.The high gate in the middle was the Empire Gate.The mosaic panel next to it was made at the end of the 9th century.There an emperor asks for an intercession from pantocrator Christ sitting on a throne.On the lockets by their sides,portraits of Virgin Mary abd Chief Angel Gabriel take place.Other figureless mosaics at the ceilings of inner corridors and side naves are the originals the Justinian period.At the main part of the construction a magnificent and giant space meets the visitor.The affect of the dome is felt right from the first step .It stands like suspended in the air and covers the whole building.Walls and ceilings are covered with marbles and mosaics and have a colourful appearance.Three different color tones of dome mosaics evidence the three different repairs made,it is not an absolute circle.Its North-South diameter is 31.87m while its West-East diameter is 30.87m and its height is 55.60.Four angel figures with their faces covered are placed on the four pendentives on which the dome is based.
Dark naves lie along two sides of the rectangular and wide center space divided by columns.Central Space is 74.67 * 69.80m.There are total 107 columns at the basement and galleries.Hagis Sophia column capitals are the most characteristic and significant examples of classic Byzantine decorations of the sixth century.Deeply carved marbles which are the characteristic of that age,set forth a beautiful light and shadow scene.There are emperor Monograms in the middle.Antique porfir columns at the corners,middle columns made of green Selanik marble their richly decorated capitals all of which are made of green white marble,carry people to ancient times.One should take off Ha. Sop. from its empty museum appearance and imagine it in its magnificent,mystical,different,old original appearance when it was used as a basilica or mosque.While it was the main church of a great Empire,the division in front of abscissa,horses,ambones and other ceremony tools were plated with gold and silver and decorated with ivory and jewelries.Some doors were even coated with this kind of precious metals.Latin occupation dismounted all of those and some other architectural parts and carried them to Europe.In the abscissa semi-dome,there are the mosaics of Virgin Mary holding her baby Christ at the left side and the Chief Angel at its right side.Another angel figure on the opposite wall was ruined.
Huge discs of 7,5 m diameter made on the leather hung on walls through galleries and the inscription on the dome remind that the work of art was used as a mosque once.There calligrahies made by the greatest masters of the term in the 19th century,are each a masterpiece.On the round plates there are the names of God(Allah),Prophet Mohammed,Four Caliphs and Hasan-Hüseyin are written.Beautiful examples of the Age are stained glass over themihrab,mosque mihrab located in the abscissa,the minbar next to it and the balcony for chanters of Mevlit (song written for The Prophet Mohammed) are the additions made in the Turkish period.The Sultan mahfil (a screened and lofty place designated for sultans) designed in 1847 by Gespare Fossati,provided the sultan to worship without being seen behind the golden plated railings.The square made 12th century,designated for emperors to be crowned.
two huge spherical bowls made of superior quality marble are located at both of the entrance sides of middle space.The antique originated bowls were brought from Pergamum in the sixteenth century at the latest.At the north corner of the Building,there stands the “Sweating Column”.The bottom part has been wrapped with a bronze belt and there is a wish hole on the column where one can put his finger with alot of tales and myths to be bold.Of the two butressses supporting the building from outside,the interior of the first one at the north is a ramp.The top galleries are climbed up by a ramp.From these galleries surrounding the building from three sides,the great interior space seems magnificent.There are spaces designated for empire women and church meetings.There are three mosaic panels with triple figures at the south wing and one at the north wing.At the south gallery,under the daylight shining from the window next to it,there stands the great wall panel of the Byzantine mosaic art.The subject here is the triple figure known as “Diesis”right in the middle of a very broad last trial scene.Christ stands in the middle and Virgin Mary at his right and Hz.Yahya.The background mosaics designed exclusively increase the beauty of the figures,face expressions are extremely realistic.

A tale has been told from a generation to next one:Egypt Queen, Cleopatra comes to here and swims and sunbathes on the Alanya beach so Cleopatra presents her name to seaside as a gift, kleopatra beach.Its beaches sand is very thin and nice.The weather in Alanya is hot in summer.

The city is on the way of being a developed and modern Mediterranean city so there are thousands of tourists and travellers who came here and did not want to go back because it gives entertainment,fun and holiday extremely.The dockyard built by Alaeddin Keykubad hundreds years ago ,the castle with the red tower,rich museum,world famous Damlataş cave are located in here.Gülefsen ruins,Iotape ancient town,Alara inn are on the Taurus plateaus.It was called as Korakesion and then Alaiye (alara) which gets its beautiness from Kleopatra.That knows how to rule the history,sea,sand,the sun for thousands of years.being a coastal and tourism city fits into itself.Alanya city center is full of shops but do not hesitate bargaining.

Things to do in alanya

Alanya castle:The seldjuk castle is just behind Alanya marina and covered with the sea from three sides.First Roman pirates built it .Aya yorgi church and seldjuk baths must be seen .Red tower was serving as a ship building yard before.
Alara Inn and castle:It is located on the northwest of Alanya and seven kilometres away from the sea. Holiday to Alanya would be really a perfect choice.

Damlataş cave (asthma cave) :That is famous with stalactites and stalagmites.It rains cats and dogs in the spring to enable water leak.That provides an authentic and fantastic sight.The cave height is fifteen metres.It covers to hundred metres area and there are two rooms with twenty two centigrade degree(permanently).Scientists proved that the atmosphere inside is a cure for respiratory disorder,asthma.
Also you can visit Pirates,Lovers, Phosphorous caves.Konakli, incekum should be visited too.
The distance to some cities: to İstanbul 850, to Ankara 671, to İzmir570, to Antalya Alanya 129 kilom. Flights to Alanya is not available ,but Antalya airport is not that far away. Buses to Antalya,Side,Kas,Manavgat can always be found.Alanya Night life lasts till the morning in night clubs ,hotels,discos.

First class Hotels in Alanya and all inclusive alanya

Orient palace Alanya, sun garden hotel, long beach resort, dreams beach, sun garden, big blue suite, mitos apartments, abacus sun garden, melissa hotel, sunshine hotel,kahya, club mermaid village, blue star, blue fish hotel, gold safran, best house, club paradiso,robin hood.

alanya map

map of Alanya

Its remainings are spreading over eight km. area.One million and a half tourists visit the old city which is first made of  marble totally in the world.The buildings and work of art can be read in the following
Artemis Temple: One of the seven wonders is the first temple made of marble.

Magnesia Gate and east Gymnasium :The city of Ephesus has got these two entrances.
Prytaneion palace :The person here was known as the mayor of the city and had got responsiblity of the fire.It did not have to go off.
Domitianus square: Pollio fountain and the hospital ,Memnios monument in this area.
Bathhouses : It was one of the most significant social building of Romans.There were warm,hot and cold bathrooms .In byzantium period it was restored.Public toilet building which has got a pool in the middle was used as agora.

Other are Domitian temple,house of the Virgin Mary(or Mary’s house), Church of Mary, Turkish bathhouses,, Herakles gate, Traianus fountain, Celcius library, St. Jean church, Gymnasium the old theatre,ancient ephesus baptist church(of ephesus),Hadrian gate and temple, Selcuk Museum.

Daily Ephesus tours can be found in Richmond, Princess Ephesus hotel,Surmeli Ephesus hotels.

Going on cheap holidays in Turkey requires a preparation before.Travellers who want to stay in a cheap hotel in Turkey should book their accomodations.You have to complete your holiday plan in August,June,July before April because turkish hotels,tours promise for very appropriate discounts,otherwise you must pay twice or three times more when they become full.Let me add this the flight tickets.
Apart hotels are another preferable choice.In these rooms you cook your food but the rooms are cleaned by hotel staff.If you make a research for cheap hotel prices do not forget to ask like “How many rooms?,how is the service?
In holiday apartments, cottages you should find at least two seperate rooms.That is if you want to have a long holiday you do it like paying your rental,a kind of time sharing.

Camping holidays in tent

Get your tent and pitch it on where the officials let,maybe near a beach.There would be regular visitors in these tent areas and cool, adventurous people.Mobile homes and caravans can be preferred instead of tents.Most beautiful resorts with camping tent are told to be Marmaris icmeler,Altinkum,Bodrum,kusadasi,Antalya,Alanya.

Kaleiçi District
Kaleici district was the base of the civilizations and cultures since the ancient times.It was built in Bergama Kingdom ages ,nowadays there are a lot of accommodation facilities in there.That attracts tourists with its historical ruins in Antalya .Hadrianus Gate,Hıdırlık Tower,Yivli Minaret,Kesik Minaret and historical marina must be mentioned by the way.
In Antalya Museum Visitors should see especially the parts of the musem:Underwater,Mosaic,Sikke, Ethnography.
Suna-İnan Kıraç Mediterranean Civillazations Institute is in Kaleiçi.Surroundings of Antalya,archaeologic and cultural assets are digged.You can visit here from 09.00 to 18.00 every day.
Termessos Güllük Mountain National Park is 34 km. away from Antalya in the North.Termessos,Fauna,Flora ancient towns are in this park.
Köprülü Canyon National Park contains Köprü river . Vegetation,its geomorphologic structure and Mediterranean cypress forests in 400 hectar area are the most important attractions here.It’s eighty-five kilometres away from Antalya city center.
Duden waterfall falls down from 20 metres altitude and it births from Kırkgöz Kurşunlu waterfall is 18 metres high from the ground and it connects seven seperate lakes to each other.
We learn that Perge was a settlement in B.C 3 or late two thousands.Perge which is 2 km. away from Aksu town is adorned with Hellenistic and Rome ruins.Its ramparts are like in old days,stil staying there.Also you can be an eyewitness of the street with columns,ancient drinking fountain,Demetrios and Apollonios buildings,Antique stadium.
Aspendos is in Belkis village near Serik in B.C. 5.Tourists come for the well-protected Roman theatre.Stadium, Aqueducts,Basilica are the other significant wonders here.

Beaches in Antalya

Best known beaches are Lara beach,Konyaaltı beach and Adalar beach in which you can cool under hot weather in antalya .
Manavgat stream,Kopru river and Goksu are the most appropriate places for rafting in Antalya.
Antalya airport(where you can buy cheap flight ,charterAntalya to London,Dublin,Paris) is ten kilometres away from the city center.

All inclusive Antalya hotels

Dedeman,Hillside hotels Antalya(suitable for golf tourism),Kremlin palace,Falez,Titanic hotel Antalya
Map of Antalya


Antalya map

It is called as the city of the imperials .It is now the center of Turkey after being capital of Byzantine and Ottoman empires.It lasts to be the centers of civillizations and each nation divulged its skills and reflected the culture and art to reality.Historical structures are seen intensively in Sultanahmet.On one side is Sultanahmet Mosque ;however on the other site is st.Sophia.
Ancient horse square,Yerebatan cistern,Dikilitaş(vertical stone),Burmalı Column,German drinking fountain,third Ahmet dringing fountain astonishes the people when they see.Topkapı palace knows that it is the pride of city.Palaces in which Sultans live is now resting as museums.When you arrive in Eminönü,you face with Tahtakale,Yeni Mosque,historical post office,Misir Bazaar,Sirkeci train station,Sepetchiler summer palace,Rüstempaşa Mosque.Beyazıt Square,Fire tower and Covered Grand Bazaar host guests with their magnifience.Süleymaniye Mosquee built by Mimar Sinan reminds you magnifience of those times.
By the way cheap flights to İstanbul from London,Moscow,berlin can be found in Istanbul travel agency,maybe Pegasus airlines or Turkish airlines.Three istanbul airports are Yesilkoy,Sabiha Gokcen airport,Ataturk airport where you can find charter flights to Athens,London,Berlin,Amsterdam,Sofia,Paris,Zurich.

Istiklal Street is first remembered by people because of its old houses,churches, synagogues,inns,passageways,ball salons.Galata Tower which free Hezarfen like birds,Dolmabahçe Palace which witnessed Atatürk’s last days and memories, irrevocable Ortaköy Mosque point out that there are a lot of favourite places in there.In Besiktas you find İstanbul shopping centers.
You see less places rich with historical places in Anatolian Side but that doesn’t decrease the value of Asia side of İstanbul.Even it is enough that Kızkulesi is in the middle of the sea there . Maybe the most wonderful train station in the world ,Haydarpaşa station,Üsküdar adorned with Mosques,Selimiye barracks,Military College,Kanlıca and Kandilli with unique waterside residences are the pride of İstanbul of Asia lands.This port city , Constantinople,is in Bosphorus screwing itself debt. Bosphorus connects Black sea to Marmara sea in which you can swim .Walking or sitting by Bosphorus is a great thing.I hope you like this istanbul travel guide.
Istanbul tours can be preferred by visitors liking sightseeing.

Cheap Hotels in istanbul

If you want comfortable Istanbul accomodation ,some istanbul hotels are Swiss,Divan,Conrad,Marmara,Armada,Four seasons,Richmond,Romance.
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map of İstanbul

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