Sights in Alanya

 

Alanya being a best place to be visited for enjoying the clean beautiful blue water beaches also has many historical and modern sightseeing. The town has boat trips that can be booked from any tourist shops in the city or directly with the owners of the boats and arrange own trips. Boat trips are best for visiting the vast caves, boats are hired on basis of time and distance you travel and are he best for visiting the caves some of which can even be reached without the boats. Coming to the historical sights they are in plenty and are situated in the areas surrounding. There is a castle which is as old as 2000 years and is standing 250 meters above the sea level. View of the city from this castle is just unimaginable filled with beauty of lively nature and the modern architectures.

 

Museums are filled with archeological and ethnographic facts which will sound interesting for the intellectuals and the knowledge thirst people. Red tower is a best visiting that can be added in the list of visiting places. All the information about the city, sights in the city is available in the official website of Alanya tourism. If you have dream of dining on a floating raft then the idealistic spot is the Dim Chai River, which can be visited as a picnic spot as well and enjoy the scenic beauty and relax. For fun there is Aquapark that can be enjoyed by all the age groups. If you are a person with full taste in life then there is a room for everything you want to do. You can go for fishing or just sailing chartering a boat and crew members. For fishing or sailing just walk down the marina and bargain for a better rate instead of middle men and hire it.

 

Golfers can enjoy the game in any of the six golf courses that include Championship courses in Belek which is not very far and need to travel for 45 minutes from Alanya. Citadel or Kale in Alanya is surrounded in all three sides by the sea that dominates all roads into the Alanya. Outer walls of the citadel are four miles in length including 146 towers. There is a short tunnel through which the roads pierce the outer walls followed by the fortifications of second line. Original bazaars and their remains are in the town centers which have now turned into the Bedestan Hotel. Inside the Citadel you can see the Byzantine church ruins together with frescoes of the 6 th century evangelists. The citadel is considered under the archaeological sites of the city.

 

Sightseeing of Alanya is fine and enjoyable but is an option for you have visited Alanya for tourism and nightlife. Sightseeing is not a must see list in the visitors list of what to do there in the city. But it is as good and worth visiting the sights that tell the history and the culture of Alanya. But what so ever it is not good to miss the sights in Alanya after you are there.