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Alarm telephone numberPolice: 112Ambulance: 155 [...]

Permissible concentration of alcohol in the blood: 0 per mill [...]

Electric power: 230V / 50 Hz [...]

Area code to Turkey: +90 [...]

Gocek is a small yacthing village about 4 hours from Bodrum, one and a half hour from Marmaris. There is no beachat the Gocek town center so that takes a lot out of the equation. There are nice apart hotels about 150 meters inland from the marina. The one [...]

Marmaris has the usual architecture of any modern town in Turkey: no character with concrete blocks. It is another resort city along the coast. The nature has been generous to Marmaris and environs. Mountains, pine woods and Turquoise waters meet in thi [...]

Tarsus is a modern Turkish city without any charm. But in past it was an important Roman city. A gate left from the walled city of the Roman period is known as St. Paul's or Cleopatra's Gate. A section of a main screen leading to the hippodrome has been u [...]

Mersin does not offer any site worthwhile for the traveler to do the long distance on the way from Antalya. The coast is nice, much less touristy, and there are nice castles and historic ruins along the way. Korykos castle and Kizakalesi are two of them. [...]

Alanya is mostly a modern town, consructed in the last decade. It is the favourite place of Scandinavian and German tourists who buy one or two week package to realx by the pool, or the beach in daytime and crowd the bars at night. It has a very busy mark [...]