Hunting	Winter Sports
Geographic structure of Turkey is an appropriate ground for hunting in connection with its plant cover and wild life.	Turkey is an important center of winter activities and attractions with its high altitude mountains covered with snow all throughout the year.
Faith Tours	Silk Road
All throughout its history as the homeland of various religions,Turkey posses monuments worth seeing by people having different beliefs.	Anatolia is formed on one of the most important junction points of Silk Road from China to reaching to Europe through passing over Middle Asia .
Thermal Resorts	Congress Tourism
Turkey with its rich and curative mineral waters is the paradise of thermal springs and welcomes the ones seeking for good health with its high quality facilities..	Located on the junction point of Europe and Assia,Turkey is an ideal venue of meetings and congresses..
Golf	Youth Tourism
In recent years, since the golf facilities with international quality entered into service respectively, Turkey has become an elite golf center where golf players all around the world meet in an environment of delicacy, quality and prestige...	Having the great majority of its population made up of young people,Turkey embodies youth hostels and facilities providing,the young people living abroad and in Turkey,the opportunity to enjoy an inexpensive holiday...
Yachting	Botanic
Surrounded by the sea in three directions, Turkey is a treasure chest of coves, inlets, bays and bays at which yachtsmen can choose a different and private anchorage each night...	Various geographic characteristics, climate variety, caused by geographical differences enables Turkey to have a rarely encountered vegetation in the world...
Spelunking	Highlands
With an approximate number of 40.000 caves and caverns present, our country is like a ' paradise of caverns ' when compared to other countries...	The highlands of Turkey and the lifestyle of its people have an important place in the rich cultural landscape of Turkey...
Air Sports	Mountaineering
Turkey is a country which should be discovered by those fond of air sports such as, Paragliding, Glider, Parachute and Balloon...	Turkey presents mountains lovers with an incredible variety of interesting climbing opportunities that are sure to satisfy the most demanding hikers, climbers, and winter sports fans....
Rafting	Underwater Diving
Turkey, with its rich natural resources, provide an important river tourism potantial for the visitors of water sports...	Important submerged things and underwater caverns within the seas of Turkey are waiting divers for discovery...
Ornithology
Ornithology is to discover the nature trough the eyes of a bird...

Köyceğiz

Köyceğiz, which is 60 km. away from Muğla, is a unique beautiful borough with its citrus gardens, spread around the lake with descending from a plain, its village houses, its calm lake, marshes around the lake, its mountains changing their colors from purple to blue.

 

Climate

Mediterranean climate is seen at coastal part of the Köyceğiz, and continental climate is seen at mountainous regions of it. Köyceğiz, which is the second place for rain after Rize in Turkey, winter rains can continue for 3 or 4 months.




History

Province center of Köyceğiz, which took its name from the lake near to it, become a Dalyan village for a while, but as a result of disturbance of connection with Muğla due to floods it is moved to its today's place. It was homeland for Carians and Menteşoğullarına, and become government during Murat II period. Together with the establishment of our Republic, it become a province of Muğla city.

Kuşadası

This seaside resort town has grown up immensely in the last 30 years, and is especially popular with package holiday-makers from Europe. From a population of 6000 in the 1970s, it is now closer to 50,000, although a high proportion of this are part of the tourist industry and here only for the summer.

Many cruising ships travelling around the Aegean Islands stop here, especially because of its close proximity (20km) to Selcuk. Kusadasi is a good base to explore this and other ancient cities like Priene and Didyma.

Although there is a little historical interest in Kusadasi itself, the town is popular predominantly because of its many hotels, restaurants, souvenir and carpet shops, and lively nightlife. The Kale district has some old traditional houses and narrow streets, and gives some indication of what the town used to be like. The most famous beach is Kadinlar Plaji, 2.5km south of the town, dominated by huge hotels and can get very crowded in summer. There are several small beaches further south, and closer to town is Yilanci Burnu, the peninsular.

Nemrut

At the junction of the East and West civilisations, Nemrut Dagi (Mount Nemrut) is one of the most astounding sites in Turkey: A collection of colossal statues on a remote mountain 2150m high, adorning the temple and tomb of King Antiochus. Unknown until 1881 when an Ottoman geologist discovered these 10 metre-high stone heads, archaeological work began in 1953 to uncover their history.

Nemrut Dağı has since been a significant attraction, with thousands sunrise and sunset visitors to see the stones in the best possible light. It has been designated a World Cultural Heritage site by UNESCO, and is one of the most important National Parks in the country. In addition to the statues, the entire site includes art from the Commagene civilisation, the Eskikale (Old Castle), Yenikale (New Castle), Karakus Hill and Cendere Bridge. Most people use the nearby towns of Malatya, Kahta or Adıyaman as a base, and the road to the summit is only open from mid-April to mid-October because of heavy snow the rest of the year.

History

Lying between the Seleucid and the Parthian Empires from 250 BC, this area has had a strategic location, and has benefited from a rich and fertile land, and a succession of independent thinking rulers. Breaking away from the Seleucid Empire, Mithridates I Callinicus founded the independent Commagene Kingdom in 109 BC, and set up his capital in Arsameia. He was the son of a prince, and claims ancestry with Alexander the Great and Darius the Great, King of Persia.

The Commagene Kingdom was a powerful one, priding itself on having religions, culture and traditions of the Greek and Persian cultures blended into one. He died in 64 BC, and was succeeded by his son Antiochus I Epiphanes, who showed his ability early on as a statesman by declaring a non-aggression treaty with the Romans.

After a financially and politically successful start to his rule, Antiochus deemed himself worthy of god-like status, and ordered the building of a temple and funerary mound in his honour. Its size and location was a reflection of his ego and thoughts of his immortality, and he declared that when he died his spirit would join the god Zeus in heaven.

But the huge statues of Antiochus and the gods are all that remain of his reign, as his short-lived rule ended in 38 BC after he sided with the Parthians and fell out with the Romans, who later deposed him. The Commagene Kingdom was then taken over by the Romans.

Antiochus and his statues were all but forgotten for centuries until Karl Puchstein, a German engineer, stumbled across them whilst surveying the site in 1881. Two years later he returned with Karl Humann for a closer inspection, but is was not until 1953 that a team of American archaeologists returned and did a thorough survey. Since then, the site has been one of the most popular attractions in Turkey, despite its remote location

Climate

For visitors hiking to the top of Nemrut Dagi, the top of the mountain gets very cold at sunrise and sunset, even in summer. The higher land is snow covered for nearly half the year. Otherwise, the summer daytime temperature of the plains is extremely hot and dry reaching over 30 degrees, with winters cold and wet and plummeting well below freezing point.

Pamukkale

The stunning white calcium pools, which cling to the side of a ridge, have long been one of the most famous picture postcard views of Turkey. Pamukkale, literally meaning “cotton castle”, is also the site of the ancient city of Hierapolis of which there are many interesting ruins, and is a very popular destination for a short visit.

Pamukkale was formed when a spring with a high content of dissolved calcium bicarbonate cascaded over the edge of the cliff, which cooled and hardened leaving calcium deposits. This formed into natural pools, shelves and ridges, which tourists could plunge and splash in the warm water.

Hotels were springing up from the 1970s to cater for the large influx of tourists, and shortly afterwards UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site. But by the 1990s, this took its toll on the state of the calcium pools and restrictions were placed on these travertine terraces. Many hotels were knocked down, visitors are only allowed on major paths around the sites, and must remove footwear to stand on the calcium deposits. This seems to have been a successful move, as the water supply is now used for preservation and some of the damaged calcium deposits have been strengthened.