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A marble building inside a glass building!
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A water feature in the main square
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View over Antalya harbour to the Taurus mountains in the background
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A minaret in Antalya
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A mosque window
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Antalya is a weird mixture of modern and old, clean and dirty (but then all cities are like that if you look!)
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Antalya old and new
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View across Antalya
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The Taurus mountains in the background
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Statue in Antalya square of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) -the founder of the Turkish Republic and its first president
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A famous Ataturk quote (1933) "I look to the world with an open heart full of pure feelings and friendship"
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To read more about this fascinating man and how he led his nation to independance, check out www.ataturk.com
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The Yivli minaret - IIRC the cylinders forming the main tower each is supposed to represent one of the 7 philosophers of Turkey, but I might have got this wrong ;-)
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Yivli Minaret with Taurus mountains in the background
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Yivli minaret again!
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Didi's eye view - not quite what I was after, I am not tall enough!
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...so Frank took this and this is more like what I was after - thanks dude!
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These next four photos Frank took after our interesting treck through the wildnerness of Aperlae when we eventually came upon a hill fort with Sarcophagi litered around the hillside (about 700 BC) - an eery place it was too!
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Taken in Aperlae; I would frequently see the same-style sarcophagi littered about the hillsides of the Taurus mountains as we travelled through the Anatolia countryside
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Nice one Frank!
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An inscription on the side of one of the sarcophagi (they were only for important soldiers of course!)
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One of the things that "got" me about Turkey was the amount of archeologically interesting sites about. Although some were officially open to the public, the country (or at least Anatolia) seems to have remnants of ancient times just littered all over the countryside, not managed in any official sense at all. It is almost as if there are so many of them that the government/whoever just can't administer them (other than the "big" ones) in any organised fashion.
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About Aspendos - hope there isn't some weird copyright about using these types of photos!
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Entrance to the amphitheatre
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