Tripatini2024-03-29T12:58:37Zhttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/feed/allMarmaris, one of Turkey´s premier beach resortshttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/marmaris-turkey2024-02-08T09:02:07.000Z2024-02-08T09:02:07.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12215113500?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>A tourism-oriented city on Turkey´s <strong>Mediterranean</strong> <strong>¨Turquoise Coast</strong>¨ (aka the <strong>Turkish Riviera</strong>), between <strong>Antalya</strong> and <strong>Fethiye</strong>, Marmaris is located on a bay and surrounded on all sides by forested mountains, and has an ancient history - the Greek historian <strong>Herodotus</strong> cites its town walls being built 3,000 years ago. And thanks to a tourism boom it burgeoned from a sleepy fishing village of some 3,000 in the 1960s to a population of around 39,000 today, and during the tourist season that number swells to 300,000 and even 400,000. Though most visitors come for the beaches, it has much more to offer, from culture (museums and archaeological sites) to various forms of adventure, eco, and entertainment activities. And here are several of its top draws...<br /> <br /> Read more in Tripatini contributor <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/rohnyjones">Rohny Jones</a>´ post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/marmaris-turkey-attractions-tourism-travel" target="_blank">Marvelous Marmaris, Turkey´s Top Beach City</a>.</p>
<p><br /> <span style="font-size:8pt;"><em><a href="https://www.istockphoto.com/es/foto/vista-a%C3%A9rea-de-barcos-y-la-hermosa-arquitectura-al-atardecer-en-marmaris-turqu%C3%ADa-gm849501096-139446129?phrase=marmaris" target="_blank">den-belitsky</a></em></span></p>
<p> </p></div>Icmeler Beach is a prime example of Marmaris' fetching strandshttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/icmeler-beach-marmaris-turkey-beaches2024-02-08T08:59:29.000Z2024-02-08T08:59:29.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12216151267?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Some ten kilometres (six miles) of great sandy stretches line this bay, such as <strong>Marmaris City Beach,</strong> <strong>Long Beach</strong> (<strong>Uzunyali</strong>), and <strong>Siteler</strong>. But my favourtie is <strong>Icmeler</strong> (above), 8km (five mi.) west of downtown and easily reachable via bus and taxi and larger and features soft, golden sand and a wide menu of water sports and amenities including bars and restaurants. Top choices within a half hour include <strong>Cleopatra</strong>, <strong>Kumlubuk</strong>, and <strong>Turunc</strong>.<br /><br />Read more in Tripatini contributor <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/rohnyjones">Rohny Jones</a>´ post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/marmaris-turkey-attractions-tourism-travel" target="_blank">Marvelous Marmaris, Turkey´s Top Beach City</a>.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:8pt;"><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icmeler_Beachfront_in_the_evening.jpg" target="_blank">Bogdan Kosar</a></em></span></p>
<p> </p></div>A breath of fresh air in Mamaris National Parkhttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/mamaris-national-park-turkey-ecotourism2024-02-08T07:54:40.000Z2024-02-08T07:54:40.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12216529270?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p> </p>
<p>A ten-minute drive from town, <a href="https://nationalparksofturkey.com/marmaris-national-park/" target="_blank">this 334-square-kilometre (129-square-mile) spread</a> is forested with red pines, cypresses, oaks, alders, wild olives, and plane trees, and is home to a wide diversity of wildlife, with mammals including wild goats and boars, caracal wildcats, foxes, weasels, badgers, squirrels, rabbits, and and even jackals and bears. Activities include hiking, biking (both regular and mountain), plant and wildlife-spotting tours, rock climbing, horseback riding, and offoading. There are even some archaeological ruins up here, the remnants of an amphitheatre, temple, and walls fom the ancient Greek cities of <strong>Physkos</strong> and <strong>Amos</strong>. And of course the sweeping views fom up here are something else.</p>
<p>Read more in Tripatini contributor <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/rohnyjones">Rohny Jones</a>´ post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/marmaris-turkey-attractions-tourism-travel" target="_blank">Marvelous Marmaris, Turkey´s Top Beach City</a>.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:8pt;"><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marmaris_milli_park.jpg" target="_blank">Thordel3030</a></em></span></p>
<p> </p></div>The incredibly ancient castle of Mamarishttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/mamaris-castle-tukey-turkiye-history-travel2024-02-08T07:50:10.000Z2024-02-08T07:50:10.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12216105896?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Looking out over Bar Street, its origins stretching back to the mid-11th century <em>BCE</em> - yes you read that right - and greatly renovated/expanded in the 1420s under the Ottoman Turks, this evocative stone complex offers great views out over the harbour in addition to artifacts and exhibits ranging back through the Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman, and Hellenistic eras. </p>
<p>Read more in Tripatini contributor <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/rohnyjones">Rohny Jones</a>´ post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/marmaris-turkey-attractions-tourism-travel" target="_blank">Marvelous Marmaris, Turkey´s Top Beach City</a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:8pt;"><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marmaris_Castle_View.jpg" target="_blank"><br />Stern1994</a></em></span></p>
<p> </p></div>The magnificent Greco-Roman ruins of UNESCO World Heritage Ephesushttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/ephesus-archaeological-site-kudasasi-turkey-unesco-world-heritage2023-10-15T10:04:16.000Z2023-10-15T10:04:16.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12257533462?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><strong>Ephesus</strong> was a Greek city founded approximately 3,000 years ago in Asia Minor in what is now western Turkey, near a town called <span class="js-about-item-abstr"><strong>Selçuk</strong>.</span> A visit here - often during a Mediterranean cruise port call at <strong>Kuşadasi</strong> - gives the imaginative global traveler a marvelous sense of what life was like in the golden age of Greece and subsequently Rome.<strong><br /> </strong></p>
<p>Read more in Tripatini contributors <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/The2WriterscomPage">Wayne and Judy Bayliff - Photojournalists</a>´ post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/ephesus-kusadasi-turkey" target="_blank">Ancient Ephesus: A Bucket-List Destination in Turkey</a>.</p>
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<p> </p></div>The famed Library of Celsus at Ephesushttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/library-celsus-ephesus-archaeological-site-kudasasi-turkey-unesco2023-10-15T10:00:46.000Z2023-10-15T10:00:46.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12257532090?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>A world recognized icon that was built by the son of the Roman governor of Asia to honor his father in 117 CE. The <a href="https://www.ephesus.us/ephesus/celsuslibrary.htm">Library of Celsus</a> is an excellent example of how the Greeks influenced Roman public architecture back then. Thought to have housed more than 12,000 written scrolls, the library's interior and contents were destroyed during a Goth invasion in 262 CE, leaving only the ruins of the façade.<br /> <br />Read more in Tripatini contributors <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/The2WriterscomPage">Wayne and Judy Bayliff - Photojournalists</a>´ post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/ephesus-kusadasi-turkey" target="_blank">Ancient Ephesus: A Bucket-List Destination in Turkey</a>.</p>
<p> </p></div>Giving a crap about public toilets in Ephesushttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/public-toilets-ephesus-archaeological-site-kudasasi-turkey2023-10-15T09:56:57.000Z2023-10-15T09:56:57.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12257530690?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Legend has it that the first commercial brothel was introduced to the public in Ephesus, as were public restrooms (there were apparently few private moments in the public toilets of the day, as evidenced by this photo!).</p>
<p>Read more in Tripatini contributors <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/The2WriterscomPage">Wayne and Judy Bayliff - Photojournalists</a>´ post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/ephesus-kusadasi-turkey" target="_blank">Ancient Ephesus: A Bucket-List Destination in Turkey</a>.</p>
<p> </p></div>The Grand Theater of Ephesushttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/grand-theater-ephesus-kudasasi-turkey-archaeological-sites2023-10-15T09:53:07.000Z2023-10-15T09:53:07.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12257529470?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The <a href="https://www.ephesus.us/ephesus/theatre.htm">Grand Theater</a> seated 25,000 spectators and was the largest amphitheater in the ancient world.<br /> <br />Read more in Tripatini contributors <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/The2WriterscomPage">Wayne and Judy Bayliff - Photojournalists</a>´ post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/ephesus-kusadasi-turkey" target="_blank">Ancient Ephesus: A Bucket-List Destination in Turkey</a>.</p>
<p> </p></div>The ancient site of Telmessos, in the coastal town of Fethiyehttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/tbp-pic-europe-turkey-ancient-sites-telmessos2023-10-15T08:46:04.000Z2023-10-15T08:46:04.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12257511057?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The largest city of ancient Lycia, a Bronze- and Iron-Age Anatolian people is now the location of the town of <strong>Fethiye</strong>, around which ruins can be found of tombs, sarcophagi, a Roman theatre, and fortress. The ruin of the tomb of Amyntas sits on a mountain on the town’s edge can be visited by the public; it also offers a great view out over Fethiye.</p>
<p>Read more in Tripatini contributor <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/DamonCulbert">Damon Culbert</a>´s post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/top-10-ancient-sites-on-the-turkish-coast" target="_blank">The Top 10 Ancient Sites on the Turkish Coast</a>.</p>
<p> </p></div>The ancient, abandoned town of Kayaköyhttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/kayakoy-tukey-turkiye2023-10-15T08:41:43.000Z2023-10-15T08:41:43.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12257508684?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>A nearly intact ghost town, built on the ruins of Lycian Karmilassos, for centuries it was occupied by Turkish Greek Orthodox inhabitants, who were massacred following World War I and the town left deserted when Greece and Turkey exchanged citizens. It was a backdrop of the 2004 novel <em>Birds Without Wings</em> and 2014 film <em>The Water Diviner</em>, and tours allow visitors to learn more about Turkish history.<br /><br />Read more in Tripatini contributor <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/DamonCulbert">Damon Culbert</a>´s post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/top-10-ancient-sites-on-the-turkish-coast" target="_blank">The Top 10 Ancient Sites on the Turkish Coast</a>.</p>
<p> </p></div>The ruins of Troyhttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/troy-turkey-turkiye-archaeological-sites2023-10-15T08:36:24.000Z2023-10-15T08:36:24.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12257505096?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Site of the famous siege from Homer’s <em>Iliad</em>, this archaeological site shows how the city developed during each successive empire which took over it, from the ancient Greeks and Romans through the Byzantine Empire and beyond. The museum at the site showcases Turkey’s diverse mix of cultures through the ages.</p>
<p>Read more in Tripatini contributor <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/DamonCulbert">Damon Culbert</a>´s post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/top-10-ancient-sites-on-the-turkish-coast" target="_blank">The Top 10 Ancient Sites on the Turkish Coast</a>.</p>
<p> </p></div>Istanbul´s splendid Suleymaniye Mosquehttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/suleymaniye-mosque-istanbul-turkey-turkiye2023-10-15T08:32:14.000Z2023-10-15T08:32:14.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12257499061?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The fourth of the city's greatest historic mosques, constructed on the third of Istanbul's seven hills in 1557, is smaller and less famous than the three cited above, but still known for its fine craftsmanship and architecture, modeled after Haghia Sophia. Another good thing about visiting it is that it's less crowded with tourists.</p>
<p>Read more in Tripatini contributor <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/zozy">Zozy</a>´s post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/istanbul-turkey-attractions" target="_blank">7 Musts of Istanbul</a>.</p>
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<p><em><span style="font-size:8pt;"><a href="https://www.istockphoto.com/es/foto/mezquita-de-suleymaniye-gm1134327470-301389194" target="_blank">ibrahimusta</a></span></em></p>
<p> </p></div>Hot-air ballooning in Capadocciahttps://tripatini.com/group/turkey-turkiye/photos/hot-air-ballooning-capadoccia-turkey-turkiye-adventure-travel2023-10-15T08:10:33.000Z2023-10-15T08:10:33.000ZTripatinihttps://tripatini.com/members/Tripatini<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12257494492?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span style="font-weight:400;">These days hot-air ballooning is well, hot - no doubt about it. There are great options all around the world, but one of the coolest and most distinctive is in the <strong>Capadoccia</strong> region of central Turkey, a 7½ -hour drive from <strong>Istanbul</strong> and 3½ from <strong>Ankara</strong>. That's because this adventure will </span><span style="font-weight:400;">float you over the “fairy chimneys”, rock formations of volcanic ash, lava and basalt that form impressive swirling spires. You can choose from standard to deluxe and private balloon flights in sunrise or sunset. But that’s not all, there are horseback rides through World Heritage Sites and exploration trips of underground caves and centuries-old towns - you can even overnight here! </span><br /><br />Read more in Tripatini contributor <a href="https://tripatini.com/members/SadieBrooks">Sadie Brooks</a>´ post <a href="https://tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/active-adventure-sports-travel?edited=1" target="_blank">7 Awesome Active-Vacation Ideas for 2023</a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hot_air_balloon_ride_at_sunrise_in_Cappadocia_2.JPG" target="_blank">Wolfgang Moroder</a></em></span></span></p>
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