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Why Side and not Antalya - Don't stay in Antalya - it's a busy, noisy city with much traffic and a horrible sharp shingle beach, no sand; in fact, the last time I swam at Antalya's Konyaalti Beach, both my feet were bleeding badly from that sharp shingle. Side, a 50-minute drive from Antalya...

The city of Köyceğiz is on the northern side of a lake köyceğiz, a natural canal known as the Dalyan Delta, which is linked to the Mediterranean Sea. The Köyceğiz-Dalyan Special Environmental Conservation Area protects its natural ecosystem as a wilderness sanctuary. A road shaded by a treetop...

Dalyan is a city situated on the southwest coast of Turkey between the popular Marmaris and Fethiye Districts in Mugla Province. In the administrative district of Ortaca the town is an autonomous municipality. In 1987, Dalyan earned international fame for trying to develop a luxurious hotel at...

Fethiye is an Aegean area of Turkey city and district of Muğla province. It is one of Turkish Riviera's leading tourism destinations. It had 162,686 inhabitants in 2019. In the old town of Telmessos is Modern Fethiye. There are ruins of Telmesso in the city for example the Hellenistic Theater...

It is located on the south coast of the Bodrum peninsula, at a point where the gulf of Gökova is reached and is also the center of this city, called Halicarnassus of Caria, which in ancient times is famous for its mausoleum, one of the Seven Wo Woo Mausolus, which was the center of this...

fter Istanbul and Ankara, izmir is Turkey's third most populous city. After Athens it is the second biggest town in the Aegean Sea. The city, which remained in English until around 1930, is known in classic Antiquity as Smyrna. There are several metropolitan districts composed of the city, and...

Kuşadası is a major tourist resort on the Turkish Aegean coast and the same name base in the coastal district. It is 95 kilometers to the south of the nation and about 60 kilometers from Aydın. Tourism is the principal field of the municipality. Güvercinada Island is connected by a human-made...

1. You don’t have to wear a headscarf. While most Turks are Muslim, it’s a secular, not Muslim state. That means there’s no dress code set by the government and women are free to choose what they wear. As a result, Islamic dress styles range from expensively fashionable designer sunglasses...

The 1980 military coup was launched “to bring peace to a polarized society where thousands of people were being killed on the streets,” according to the coup generals and their supporters. The results, however, were devastating: The Turkish Parliament was dissolved, the Constitution was...

There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me. What in the world do leaping lords, French hens, swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won't come out of the pear tree have to do with Christmas? This week, I found out. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in...

In 1647, after the English civil war, Oliver Cromwell banned festivities. The law wasn`t lifted till 1660. Our very own first tree hugging leftie.

This is soooo very very funny. From the intro you just know it's gonna be brill and it just gets better :) True Facts About The Angler Fish - YouTube Everyone please watch and give your laughing muscles a work out :gulme:

Made me feel quite ill AOL.co.uk Article - Horrifying facts about processed meat

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In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death. (Like THAT makes sense.) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* In Bahrain, a male...

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times! Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at...

Of all the questions asked by those who come to settle here in Turkey, this is the one that crops up with the most frequency, often in internet forums and in my own case personally and on an almost daily basis This is simply because I happen to have kept my trusty old UK transport here with me...

Global Facts About Sex……. At any given moment: FACT: 79,000,000 people are having sex - right now. FACT: 58,000,000 are kissing. FACT: 37,000,000 are relaxing after having sex. FACT: 1 old fart is reading forum posts. You hang in there, Saorise! Enjoy your fish today, i wish i had a...