Alanya Castle – As you tour them, you can also sample the local culinary specialties. Thin, flaky sheets of yufka with ‘gokelek’ cottage cheese, herb-flavored ‘bazlama’ flatbread, and country chicken in butter are tasty treats indeed. If you don’t care for heights, you can visit Damlatas Cave on the western coast of the peninsula with its honey-colored stalactites and stalagmites. The cave’s 20-23°C temperature never varies summer or winter. This cave, which emits various chemical gases and radio waves is good for asthma and rheumatism. Its streets redolent of orange blossoms in autumn, Alanya is ready to offer you all its colors. Are you?
Alanya Castle – Alanya Castle is a veritable open air museum, and its verdant slopes overlooking the Mediterranean are brimming with thousands of centuries- old ruins. You’ll discover the remains of walls, dungeons, old baths, cisterns and other structures scattered among the cypresses in just a few hours’ walk.
On the western side of the historic peninsula, Damlatas Cave has a constant temperature summer and winter. With high levels of humidity and carbon dioxide, the cave interior is good for a variety of ills. This natural monument bristling with magnificent stalactites and stalagmites is easily toured on walking platforms
Alanya Castle – According to some sources, bananas have been grown at Alanya since the mid-18th century. Weighing up to 100 kilos a bunch, Alanya bananas are distinguished by their fine flavor and Sampling the gastronomic specialties is also de rigueur at Alanya, which is bursting with palm, date and orange trees as well as a variety of cactus species. Fish in season, olive oil dishes and halvah with pekmez (grape molasses) are the cornerstones of the local cuisine.
