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<\/a><\/br>Greek Island of Kastellorizo<\/p><\/div> Before the trip, I wasn\u2019t sure whether there would be a ton of things to do in Kas besides the boat trip to Kekova Islands. If there was, for example paragliding, then we would depart late. But we found out there wasn\u2019t, so we got up early, and aimed to some more activities in Antalya.<\/p>\n Before the trip, I knew there would be plenty of buses between Antalya and Kas. By the time we checked out of our hotel and arrived at the bus station, one bus for Antalya was actually leaving. So we jumped onto the bus, literally not wasting any seconds. <\/br>Personal Entertainment Screen on Bus<\/br>One not so nice feature about this entertainment pad was that, I needed to turn it on (and watch people talking in alien language) in order to charge my phone.<\/br>And it\u2019s made in China, which displayed Chinese characters while booting.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Tour Boats Leaving Kas for Kekova<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Tour Boats Leaving Kas for Kekova<\/p><\/div> <\/br>D400 Route Winding through Mountains<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Fields of G\u00fcrses Village<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Farmlands of Demre Town<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Islands in Mediterranean Sea<\/br>This is roughly where Kekova Islands were that we visited the previous day.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Harbor near Demre<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Park of Demre Ku\u015f Cenneti<\/p><\/div> <\/br> <\/br>Mediterranean Inlet<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Mediterranean Inlet<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Town of Demre before Mountains<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Mediterranean Inlet<\/p><\/div> <\/br> <\/br>Mediterranean Sea by South Turkey<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Turkish Coastal Route D400<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Turkish Coastal Route D400<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Town of Demre before Mountains<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Turkish Coastal Route D400<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Rocky Shores of Turkish Mediterranean<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Turkish Coastal Route D400<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Tiny Bay along Turkish Coastal Route D400<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Turkish Coastal Route D400<\/p><\/div> <\/br> <\/br>Turkish Peninsula into Mediterranean along Route D400<\/p><\/div> <\/br> <\/br>Turkish Coastal Route D400<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Turkish Coastal Route D400<\/p><\/div> <\/br> <\/br>Boat in Turkish Mediterranean Bay<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Turkish Coastal Route D400<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Finike Harbor<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Streets of Finike<\/p><\/div> <\/br> <\/br>Turkish Route D400 in Mountains<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Gas Station Selling Bottled Water<\/br>We had quite an urge to buy one, as the price was much cheaper than street-side vendors.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Ship in Mediterranean Turkey<\/br>That could be reef, or oil spill.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Antalya Fisherman’s Shelter<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Rat Island (S\u0131\u00e7an Adas\u0131) off Antalya Fisherman’s Shelter<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Driving down Turkish Coastal Route D400<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Sarisu Public Beach<\/p><\/div> <\/br> <\/br> <\/br>Underground Passage to Tram Station<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Antalya Tram Otogar Station<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Public Plaza in Antalya<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Public Plaza in Antalya<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Valley Extending down to Sea<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Coastal Avenue of Antalya<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Coastal Plaza in Antalya<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Sea-Facing Residential Buildings in Antalya<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Turkish Flag Flying in Antalya Coastal Avenue<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Antalya Tram<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Tomb Display outside Antalya Museum<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Antalya Museum Entrance<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Broken Sculpture outside Antalya Museum<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Display of Ancient Bath<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Display of Pottery<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Small Object on Display<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Holey Face on Display<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Female Sculpture on Display<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Sculpture of Athena<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Sculpture of Zeus<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Sculpture of Hygieia<\/br>Whom went on to become the Goodness of Medicine.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Sculpture of Nemesis<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Sculpture of Hermes<\/br>With his symbol turtle at his feet.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Sculpture of Isis<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Sculpture of Apollo<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Face Relief<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Sarcophagus on Display<\/br>Where the heroic deeds of the owner were depicted on its surface.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Sarcophagus on Display<\/br>It was designed as a tomb for two (see the sculptures on top of it), husband and wife. But for unspecified reasons the face of the husband was scrapped off, indicating the remains of the husband might not be in this tomb.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Oil Lamps on Display<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Silverware on Display<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Silver Plates on Display<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Silverware on Display<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Silver Plates on Display<\/p><\/div> <\/br> <\/br>Christianity Paintings on Display<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Glassware on Display<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Stone Carvings with Islamic Theme<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Turkish Costumes on Display<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Scales on Display<\/p><\/div> <\/br> <\/br>Open-Air Display of Ancient Columns<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Open-Air Display of Giant Ceramic Objects<\/br>Guess this was to hold human remains for those that couldn\u2019t afford a proper tomb.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Open Air Display of Relief<\/br>Of the many relatively insignificant objects that were displayed in the open air, this was one of the more delicately carved.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Monument to Turkey\u2019s Independence<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Konyaalti Beach<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Rocky Shores of Antalya<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Konyaalti Beach<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Cat on Restaurant Chair<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Cliff Restaurant for Dinner<\/p><\/div> The good and bad thing about Konyaalti Beach is that it\u2019s a pebble beach. Good thing about pebble beach is that for casual visitors like us, we didn\u2019t need to change our sneakers; bad thing about pebble beach is that, for true beach fans, pebble wasn\u2019t something comfortable to walk on barefoot.<\/span>
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\nOur bus left Kas at 10 in the morning, which was the same time most boat tours left Kas. So on the way out we saw those spectacular views of boats heading to sea.
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\nThe bus stopped at several local bus stations along the way. But to honest, none as charming as the little town of Kas on the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed to be that the other towns were all too populated.
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\nThen we passed some sort of Mediterranean Inlet East of Demre, which was essentially a walled-off portion of Mediterranean bay. But since there\u2019s a tiny opening connecting the town to the open water, it\u2019s officially part of Mediterranean.
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\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Buildings along Mediterranean Inlet<\/p><\/div>
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\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>G\u00f6kliman Beach along Turkish Coastal Route D400<\/p><\/div>
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\n<\/a><\/a><\/br><\/a><\/br>Turkish Coastal Route D400 along Antalya Konyaalti Beach<\/p><\/div>
\nSo 4 hours later, our bus was at Antalya Bus Station, where we purchased tickets of an overnight bus to Goreme 2 days later, and headed for the tram station.
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\nI shall say the Antalya Tram Otogar (Bus Station) Station was simply next to the bus station, which meant one needs to walk around the perimeter of the bus station in scorching sun, then down a lengthy underground passage to reach the tram station (all with trolley bags). Not the fanciest way though.
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\nIn the tram station, we purchased a reusable ticket at 10TL (0.8TL for card and 9.2TL in deposit) that can be used by multiple people simultaneously. I\u2019m not sure whether there were other options for single-ride cards available, but the salesman was pretty determined to hand us this card upon seeing all three of us. One thing to note (that we later found out) that the soft-card he handed us could only be popped up over a counter, not on a self-service machine, which caused us some trouble later in the day.
\nOne good thing was that, we popped an additional 10TL into the card later, and 19.2TL was exactly the amount of money for the three of us for 4 rides (1.6TL*3*4).
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\nHaving settled down in the hotel, we called a few travel agencies asking for quotes for their one-day tour to Side, Aspendos and Perga, the cheapest of which was 40EUR given that we had our museum passes. We tried to reach for a few car rental companies for a one-day rent to take us to Side, unsuccessfully. We even followed Google Maps to one of them, turned out Google Maps wasn\u2019t so accurate in Turkey.
\nSome Notes:<\/br>1. At last, we did the trip to Side and Aspedos on our own.<\/br>2. There are some car rental companies on the threshold of Antalya old town. But since we lived out of old town (mainly because the online comments suggest noise problem for almost every hotel in the old town), we didn\u2019t go there on the first day.<\/span>
\nThe good thing though, we bumped to an incredible grocery store called A-1, which supplied us bottled water and juice, two important necessities in Turkey for us.
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\nOur next stop was Antalya Museum. We planned to go there by tram (we would love to ride the coastal old tram of Antalya). But since we couldn\u2019t managed to pop up our Antalya tram card, we decided to walk instead. That\u2019s 2 kilometers, in the sun, thank God we got ample water supply from that visit to A-1 Grocery Store.
\nBy the way, later we found out that the old tram of Antalya ran on pretty long intervals, so maybe it\u2019s not that much a bad idea to walk that distance to the museum among local residents.
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\nNo backpack was allowed inside the Antalya Museum, as the guard kindly led us to a storage room and taught us to use the PIN-based storage blocks. Pretty awesome, and free of charge.
\nAgain, Antalya Museum was included in the Turkish Museum Pass.
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\nWe spent about 90 minutes in the Antalya Museum. After that we walked towards the nearby Konyaalti Beach.
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\nThen, with the sun setting and Konyaalti Beach on our side, we decided to finish dinner (Oh, we skipped lunch all together given the wonderful views on coastal Turkish Route D400.) in a cliff restaurant facing Mediterranean Sea. Is there any better way to get rid of the day\u2019s exhaustion by embracing in gentle breeze from the sea, while watching sunset?
\nOh, sadly, one thing to spoil that wonderful dinner environment was the incredible amount of flies.
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\nAfter dinner, we sat down on the Konyaalti Beach for a while, watching the stars and distance city lights, listening to the waves, so on.<\/p>\n
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