Towns and sightseeings along the Turkish South-coast
Marmaris
Pictorially and turbulent seaport, small cross knight's castle, beutiful marina,home port of our ship.
Kaunos
antik, new unearthed town, crag graves, Trip in small boots through pictorially stream delta with many ships and turtles.
Fethiye
lively seaport with crag graves ( Grave of Amynthas) and free standing sarcophaguses , the antik Telmessos.
Ölüdeniz
most famous and beutiful beach of Turkey, wonderful bay.
Kalkan
small seaport, initial point for trips to: Tlos, Pinara. Xanthos, Letoon, Patara.
Tlos
Port Livadia, main place Megalo Chorio with gorgeous carvings in the Taxiarchis Church.
Pinara
in glorious mountanscape hidden ruins with powerful acropolis o Xantostals, many grave caves.
Xanthos
Most famous town oft he antic Lykien – greatful ruins graves in at widths Xanthostal.
Letoon
Lykish sanctum for Leto and their children Apollon and Artemis.
Patara
Famous antic seaport, whose ruins are partly blown by the sanddraft, egg deposition area for the turtles.
Kasch
Small, pictorial seaport, Hyposorion – the antic Antiphellos (theatre) Hyposorion – sarcophagus.
Kekova
protected from Islands and headland,Kekov is a wonderful bay with clear blue water and undisturbed nature with "ruins romantic".
Simena
It has the smallest theatre which is made out of cliff from the Akropolishill. Lykiens theatre is eminently pictorially surrounded, Nekropole mit many sarcophaguses and beutiful swimming bays.
Myra
arrestingly rocknekropole of the coast - and is one of the most dignified lieu of the Christendom.
Finike
Seaport, in Fineke is where you can start a trip to Arykanda . "Delphi of Turkey", in a wonderful mountain valley,
Limyra
antike lykisch - römische Ruinenstätte mit großartiger Felsnekropole, Akropolis, Theater und Grabmahl des Perikles.
Arykanda
Das "Delphi der Türkei", in einem wunderschönen Gebirgstal gelegene unberührte Ruinenstadt.
Olympos
very overgrown, romantic Roman, ruin town. You can get to the beach by foot
Phaselis
Amazing ruinscity with 3 natural antic seaports, Agora, theatre, thermals, aqueduct; swimming oppotunities in the wonderful bay, at the once the southern trade port.
Kemer
Centre of the a new tourist region.
Antalya
Blooming tourism metropolis, in a wonderful location at the ocean, small, beautiful port, oldtown (Hadriangate), city wall, very interesting archaeological museum
Termessos
greatful antik city, in a national park over 1000m high, grandiose ruintown in a romantic mountain location, huge sarcophaguses in Nekropole, temple, theatre.
Perge
it´s the best well-preserved town from the antik Pamphylien, antik town with almost all parts ( habitat of the most important and famous sanctuary, of Artemistemple, not yet found)which belong to it. But not yet all are unearthed. Apostel Paulus held his first speech here.
Aspendos
20 000 viewer, best kept antic theatre of „Small Asia“
Selge
A small Turkish village on a mountain surrounded plateau with a greatful antic theatre.
Side
A very famous sea and trade town at the Turkish Southcoast, wonderful sand beach, lively resort, antic ruins in town.
Alanya
Pictorial resort with good shopping possibilities; fort on a mountainhill, famous „red tower“, finer sandy beach.
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Towns and sightseeings along the Turkish West-coast
Marmaris
Pictorially and turbulent seaport, small cross knight's castle, beutiful marina with a bazaar,home port of our ship.
Loryma
Powerful fortification, idyllic bay.
Knidos
antik port, big antik comlex ( theatre, temple, dwellings, warport, acropolis (fixed with a lot of effort), no town only a small tavern, which specialized on tourism.
Bodrum (Halikarnassos)
bigger seaport ("St.Tropez of Turkey", ), big yacht port, John-fort, theatre, mausoleumof king Mausolos - once a wonder of world, but today there´s almost nothing to see there.
Jasos
Small beautiful seaport (Kiyikislcik) antic mountain castle.
Milas
a Island provincial town, "Gümüskesen"- copy of mausoleum from the first century, Becinkalesi- fort, Euromos- romantic at a olive grove, Zeus temple, which is well preserved
Herakleia
Quiet, romantic, ruins place in greatful rockscape at Bafa-lake.
Didyma
The unfinisched sainthood for oracle God was once supposed to become the biggest temple, today it´s the „small Asia“ enormous temple.
Milet
at the Mäander-valley, once a big town, ample ruins area, in spring time it´s sometimes under water, important for mathematician-thales!, theatre, harbour, mosque from 15. century
Priene
ruins of a einer Hellenic "mustertown" in a adorable Southhillside at Mykalmassiv, wonderful view over the whole Mäanderflat up to Milet, a place, which even argor people who a not interested in antik, Athena-sainthood, residential, Bouleuterion, Zeus sainthood, theatre.
Kusadasi, Selçuk
Ephesus- the known and most informative archeological excavation of Turkey, Celsus-library,theatre, Domitin-temple, odeion, Kureten street, stateagora, Nyphäum, stateagora,luxury flats, which were made accessible for the public some years ago, it reminds of Pompeii because of it wonderful frescos and mosaic.
Since decade Austrian archaeologist have been excavating here. Apostle Paulus was here on his mission and visited one of the first Christian Churches Artemistemple- on of the Seven Wonders of the World of the antiks.Today there´s only one column in the everglade with stork's nest Selçuk -museum, Isa-Bey mosque, mosque from 1375, Johnbasilica with John´s grave, the tradition, John theologos, the author of the gospel and the apocalypse who is buried here in Ephesos goes back to the dawn of Christendom.
Mereyemana a famous christian place of pilgrimage, after a religious traditon and vision of a Austrian nun it became a residence nd a dieing place.
Klaros
an amazing oracle sanctum of antik, which oracle chamber obtained. The saga appraise that Klaros is long long time an orcle place. After the delection of Troy a Troy´s seer Kalchas came to Klaros and got in a battle with Mopsos (overseas competitors). Kalchas lost and died alleged of affliction.
Izmir, Smyrna
Cultural, industrial center of Aegaen coast at the amazing location on golf.
Bergama, Pergamon
In harmony abreast of antic and present it´s most worth seeing places of Turkey: Todays Bergam (wonderful market), antic acropolis with the most cliffy antic theatre in the world and free area where the Pergamonaltar used to be (today it´s in Berlin), Asklepieion on the outskirts, it used to be the place of work for the famous doctor Glen, who was medical attendant of Marc Aurel and he also treated gladiators.
Troja
We associate Troja with Homer, Ilias and Odyssee and also the famous excavitions of Heinrich Schliemann. Thank the good signage this amazing complex with 9 consecutive settlements are very impressiv even for a „non-archaelogist“.
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Towns and sightseeings along the Greek Islands
Rhodos
The biggest Dodekanes-Island, in the Antic it was famous fort he statue „Koloss of Rhodos“ anexplained Rhodos is erstwhile place, very beautiful oldtown, freedomgate, „knights-street“ from the 15. century, archaeological museum in the former religious order of Hospitaller.
Lindos
about 40 km from Rhodos-City, friendly, tourism place, a wonderful acropolis, temple of Athena Lindia, monumental „Free-stairs“ to the Propyläen, peristyle, greatful view of bay of Lindos, Marien-Church in Lindos from the 14. century, amazing Ikonostase from the 17. century.
Kos
Hippokrates, The most famous son of the Island, is deemed to be the ancestral father of doctors and made Kos become a "cure-Island" in the antiquity. The medical centre was Asklepieion, a very beutiful terraces sanctum in a wonderful location. It´s about 5 km away from the town which was occupied by t the Achäern in the 16. century before Christ and about 1100 before Christ by the Dorian.
Simi
Once a rich seaport, with multistorey tilled roof houses, which were pasted-coloured. The town nestles to a cliffy hillside. There´s a beutiful port with a lively boardwalk.
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