As you tour them, you can also sample the local culinary specialties. Thin, flaky sheets of yufka with `gokelek` cottage cheese, herb-flavored `bazlama` flatbread, and country chicken in butter are tasty treats indeed. If you don`t care for heights, you can visit Damlatas Cave on the western coast of the peninsula with its honey-colored stalactites and stalagmites. The cave`s 20-23°C temperature never varies summer or winter. This cave, which emits various chemical gases and radio waves is good for asthma and rheumatism. Its streets redolent of orange blossoms in autumn, Alanya is ready to offer you all its colors. Are you?
Alanya Castle is a veritable open air museum, and its verdant slopes overlooking the Mediterranean are brimming with thousands of centuries- old ruins. You`ll discover the remains of walls, dungeons, old baths, cisterns and other structures scattered among the cypresses in just a few hours` walk.
On the western side of the historic peninsula, Damlatas Cave has a constant temperature summer and winter. With high levels of humidity and carbon dioxide, the cave interior is good for a variety of ills. This natural monument bristling with magnificent stalactites and stalagmites is easily toured on walking platforms
According to some sources, bananas have been grown at Alanya since the mid-18th century. Weighing up to 100 kilos a bunch, Alanya bananas are distinguished by their fine flavor and Sampling the gastronomic specialties is also de rigueur at Alanya, which is bursting with palm, date and orange trees as well as a variety of cactus species. Fish in season, olive oil dishes and halvah with pekmez (grape molasses) are the cornerstones of the local cuisine.
A wide array of jams and preserves are sold in the shopping centers of Alanya. Orange, lemon, eggplant, watermelon, date, pumpkin, Bergamot orange and kiwi are just a few of the flavors available, all of which make perfect gifts for
Turkish Airlines has flights in both directions between Istanbul and Antalya or Alanya Gazipasa Airport.
Genuine beach paradise
A genuine beach paradise, Alanya is covered with beautiful beaches both at the city center and at its eastern and western ends. And most of them offer
There is nothing you can`t find at Alanya Market, at the end of Ataturk Avenue in the heart of the city. It`s hard to return empty-handed from this market chock full of shops selling gold, silver and costume jewelry as well as wearing apparel, leather goods, wood carvings and gift items galore.
In Antalya `s backyard, Alanya is an earthly paradise with sunshine three hundred days a year on average.
The golden sand beaches along its coast are among the finest in the world. And almost all these beaches, which once captured the heart of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, have been awarded the blue flag, international symbol of cleanliness and order, making guests feel they are in the bosom of nature.
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