Exploring Alanya,Turkey 🇹🇳 [Walking Tour]

This video shows our journey to Alanya,Turkey in November 2020.we stayed there for one full day and we came back at night to our hotel in Antalya.
Best things to visit in Alanya,Turkey:
* Alanya Castle:
The city’s steep peninsula, protected on three sides by the Mediterranean, is topped by a 13th-century castle with 6.5 kilometres of fortified walls.
This rocky mass is a natural defence, and today’s castle was built on earlier Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine enclosures.
In all there are 83 towers and 140 towers in the walls, and many of the 1,200 original cisterns continue to fulfil their original role.
Alanya Castle is one massive archaeological site that warrants hours of exploration.
The starting point has to be the citadel or Kale on the southwest side, where you’ll come to the Byzantine Church of St George, later adapted as a mosque.
The north side of the promontory is the scene of the Seljuk Ehmedek Fortress, built on Hellenistic vestiges and holding a military garrison, arsenal and Sultan’s treasury for hundreds of years.
Here you’ll discover countless ruins, together with historic 19th-century houses that went up after the castle had lost its defensive purpose.

* Red Tower (Kızılkule):
Alanya’s emblem is a 13th-century Seljuk defensive tower, getting its name from the red brick that makes up the structure’s upper storey and parapet.
The Red Tower has an octagonal footprint and climbs to 33 metres with marble blocks on its lower walls.
This rare piece of Medieval defensive architecture was constructed to protect Alanya’s harbour and shipyard, and greeted people’s arrival to the city for many centuries.
There’s a cistern inside, still able to collect rainwater, and you can make out the historic siege-repelling murder holes, through which boiling water and pitch would be dropped on helpless invaders.
On the first floor is a small ethnographic museum with tools and handicrafts reflecting the Turkmen culture in the Taurus Mountains.

* Kleopatra Beach:
Starting at the western foot of that promontory is Alanya’s main beach, a long gentle arc of coarse sand bathed by low-to-moderate surf.
Kleopatra Beach is wide, tapering only a little the further north you go, and gives you unbroken views of the castle and the brooding mass of the Taurus Mountains.
There are beach clubs with sun loungers at intervals along the beach, and between the sand and Atatürk Boulevard is a wide promenade, blessed with those same panoramas, under swaying palms and buffered from the street by a strip of greenery with playgrounds and flowerbeds.

* Alanya Teleferik:
On the east side of the beach is the lower station for a cable car that opened in summer 2017, whisking you up to the castle promontory.
The Alanya Teleferik climbs 250 meters on a 900-metre line, and one of its 14 gondolas will depart every 19 seconds.
On board you’ll be treated to astonishing 360° views, out over the Gulf of Antalya, across the resort and beyond to the Taurus Mountains.
When we wrote this article in March 2019 a round trip was 28TL (about $4.50). Sunset is of course a great time to make the journey, and from street level the gondolas are lit in green and blue at night.

*Sapadere Kanyonu:
It’s impossible not to be awed by Taurus Mountains, and if you want to break out and experience this stirring landscape your best bet is the Sapadere Canyon, about 40 kilometers northeast of Alanya.
The temperature is a few degrees lower in the mountains, and something that will strike you right away is the lack of humidity.
On GetYourGuide.com there’s a seven hour tour taking you into the mountains for a trek via 750 meters of wooden walkways along the gnarled walls of the gorge, past waterfalls with bracing, clear pools that you can bathe in.
Afterwards you’ll stop at Sapadere village for lunch and to see rural life in the Antalya Province up close.

* Alanya Harbour (Limani):
Alanya’s port for tourist cruises and diving excursions is defended to the south by Kızılkule, and is as good a place as any to potter around and see where your curiosity takes you.
Along the water there’s a promenade, hemmed by gardens with palms, lawns and topiaries.
There are lots of spaces to just park up and soak up the views out to sea, down to the castle or up to the Taurus Mountains, a constant, imposing presence all along the coast.
You’ll never be far from a cafe for a hit of Turkish coffee, and for the best views you can walk along the harbour’s south arm to ponder Alanya and its mountainous hinterland.
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