Our super cheap but all inclusive tour included a free sightseeing tour of Anatalya with forced shopping. I don’t even know where we were more on historical sites or on commercial ones. Once again I was convinced that if you travel somewhere, then on your own, you will see and remember much more. Although if it is free, and there is a desire, it will be stocked with dust collectors and leather jackets, then quite. By the way, we dropped the price for the jacket from $ 1000 to $ 350, but we didn't buy it, we had fun.
According to our laconic guide, many Russians are now moving to the city of Antalya and buying a house for themselves, as it is cheaper than it turns out in Moscow. She showed us the houses in which such people probably live. Not bad, however, the view of the sea, everything is green around, the sea is nearby, the mountains, the weather is better, the sun is brighter.
Antalya city. View from the house on the shore.
Just the city of Antalya.
First, we visited mini-city, an open-air museum, where you can see the main attractions of Turkey in miniature. It is quite entertaining for itself, you look and choose which of this is worth seeing in real life. True, natural objects are almost not represented.
Mini City Museum in Antalya.
Mini-City fountain model 20 cm high.
Mosque layout. How real! For hamsters...
We visited the old city of Antalya - houses with red tiled roofs on the rocky shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Only 15 minutes, the guides devote to this place. Fiends!
The old city of Antalya. Turkey.
Close to the old city of Antalya. Turkey.
Not far from the old city of Antalya accidentally saw «exhibition of corpses». Apparently this is a kind of Turkish shawarma advertisement. Creative, but how after that is?
Shawarma in Antalya. Attract attention.
The next attraction of Antalya is Hadrian's Gate, built before our era, and well-preserved.
Hadrian's Gate. Antalya city.
The Lower Duden waterfall, falling into the sea from a high bank, turned out to be a magnificent sight. And this is all inside the city of Antalya. Very nice, I recommend! There is also Upper Duden, but only it is not included in the list of Antalya attractions, provided for by a free excursion.
Lower Duden waterfall. Antalya.
Lower Duden waterfall. Antalya.
And then…. Shops began: a jewelry store, a leather store in Sokolniki, a souvenir store, some kind of supermarket for cheap clothes. At the entrance, badges of a certain color with numbers are handed out for a reason, apparently the tour operator has a percentage of sales in such stores, unless of course they do not belong to him at all.
Badges for free excursions.
They tortured us completely, but only one thing warmed us - the tour of Antalya was free. This is our Russian mentality! And the shops are cleverly made, the entrance is on one side, and the exit is on the other, and the bus, respectively, is waiting at the exit. Therefore, I quickly went outside and breathed fresh air, and at the same time caught airplanes in the lens..
Airplanes over the store. Antalya.
Here is such a tour of Antalya. Half a day and we are back in Kemer.
And this is a photo of a cool truck. What cool I do not know. I just love old cars ...
Desoto truck. Just cool.
Where to stay in Antalya
In advance, just in case, I selected hotels where you can spend the night, they will suddenly come in handy, because there is an airport in Antalya, and if anything, you will have to fly home from here. I share with you. Hotel Twenty and Ozmen Pension. Reviews are good, they are also conveniently located in terms of tourist facilities, in general, you can safely book.
All parts of the story about our independent trip to Turkey:
Route - Kemer - Antalya - Demre (Worlds) - Olympus and Cirali. - Side - Lake Beysehir - Cappadocia - Goreme - Ankara - Adapazarı - Karasu - Istanbul
