Pipa Travels Turkey :)

Antalya is town situated on south coast of Turkey - and it lies at innermost point of Gulf of Antalya. Town itself is been built on limestone terrace that drops sharply in 75ft cliff under which is located old harbor.

Major tourist attraction at Antalya is beach of Konyaati that lies between town and high ridge of mountains to west. Adding to attraction of this broad sweeping beach is climate of this region – Antalya also enjoys sub-tropical climate and bathing season that lasts from April until end of October.

City of Antalya widens along bay bearing the name and is also built at about 39 meters height on rocky coastline. Land & sea everywhere meet beaches stretching for the miles or steep cliffs. Taurus mountains against blue backdrop of sky, precipices and particularly the caves very close to sea add other dimension to this beauty of region. Earth TV transmit camera is been installed at rooftop of Hillside SU Hotel in Antalya. Ancient and repeatedly recreated by the earthquakes, land is low lying all along coast, with high level of Anatolia and mountainous, in a few places, stripped down terrain in interior.

Plant life in Antalya is very varied. Every type of the tropical plant are found all along its coast. Visitors to the Antalya are hit by size attained by different class of cactus. When you attain foothills of Taurus, you can see they are enclosed in typical Mediterranean maquis, whereas forests are filled with thriving oaks & pine trees. Cotton and sesame farms and citrus & banana groves of plains have beauty of own.

In Antalya four seasons just appear in the calendar. Since there is not any real winter here, summers are very hot and rainless whereas other months are very warm and frequently rainy, with mean annual hotness 18.7 C On the average there is not any rain for about 309.5 days per year.

It is rare for temperature to get drop below zero. At time of last 40 years high recorded temperature was about 44.6 C In Antalya average humidity rate is of about 64%, whereas sea temperatures are around 17.6 C at January, 18.0 C April, 27.7 C August and 24.5 C September.

Antalya, Turkey’s main holiday resort in Mediterranean region, is the attractive city with the shady palm lined boulevards, prize winning marina on Mediterranean. In picturesque old quarter, the Kaleici, thin winding streets & old wooden houses are next to ancient city walls. Recently, lots of foreigners have bought property in & around Antalya for the holidays or for retirement. It has become popular area particularly for German and the Russian nationals.

City of Antalya widens along bay bearing the name, as well as is built at around 39 meters altitude on rocky coastline. And one is right away struck by Taurus Mountains that are rising to 3086 meters over this coastline, interspersed with valleys of different sizes. Land & sea everywhere meet beaches that are stretching for the miles or steep cliffs. Taurus mountains against blue backdrop of sky, precipices & especially caves close to sea add other dimension to beauty of region.

Small as well as large streams up-and-coming from west side of Taurus water plains on the journey to Mediterranean. This transparent running water, which are cascading in sea at points all along coast, is the other attractive sight.

Plant life is Antalya is very varied. Every type of tropical plant is found along its coast. The visitors to Antalya are hit by size attained by different class of cactus. While you reach foothills of Taurus, you can see they all are covered in classic Mediterranean maquis, whereas forests are filled with the thriving oaks and the pine trees. Cotton and sesame, banana and citrus groves of plains have beauty of their personal.

At Antalya four seasons just appear on calendar, since there is not any real winter here, hence much so that while in 1985 for first time at 60 years snow cut down, it was the front-page news.

Summers are very hot and rainless whereas other months are temperate and rainy, with mean yearly temperature of about 18.7 °C. On the average there is not any rain for about 309.5 days per year. It is rare for temperature to fall below zero. At last 40 years highest recorded high temperature was of 44.6 °C.