Travel Guide to Alanya, Turkey

Alanya is a picturesque town located nearby Taurus Mountains and surrounded by lemon and orange gardens. Besides first class beaches the resort offers to its guests wide choice of excursion programs, multiple shops and restaurants, discos and bars.

Alanya was founded in the 4th century. Today only one sight reminds of those times – a piece of an ancient Byzantine wall. Many centuries ago the wall surrounded the local fortress and a part of the town, and its length estimated 8 kilometers. Today the fortress is turned into an ethnographic museum, and Kizil Kule tower features magnificent views of the town and suburbs from its observation deck. For decades Alanya was used as a pirate base, that’s why today multiple tourists of this popular Turkish resort can visit fantastic grotto and caves. One of the most beautiful of them is definitely Dalmatash Grotto, you may also like Cave Maiden, Mağara severler or the Cave of Lovers, and Phosphoric Grotto that has got its name from mystic lightning effect.

One of the most unusual buildings is so called «Ship Dockyard». This is a complex of two huge galleries with each one of them is 30-40 meters deep. Here visitors can see small to medium ships, take a ride through the gallery on a boat and view all caves in details.

Tourists traditionally enjoy visiting aqua park, look the collection of the local Archeological museum, and try culinary masterpieces of local chiefs. People, who enjoy nightlife, will definitely like visiting such places as James Dean, Auditorium Open Air Disco, Koloni Disco, Zape Hahn and Sedir Bar and Café. In case your primary entertainment is sport, you can visit competitions in rafting, climbing, triathlon, tracking and other sports. When you get tired of all these activities, there’s nothing better than resting from all this fuzz and enjoy hot sun in one of numerous beaches and bays of Alanya.

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Local traditions and lifestyle
'Must visit' places in Alanya
Nightlife and attractions in Alanya
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