 Bodrum Peninsula
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Do not think that you will leave as you came, those who came before thought so, however they all left their mind in Bodrum and left…
The Fisherman Of Halicarnassos
Bodrum, pretty and and lovely town on the South Aegean coast has been a favourite resort for over 50 years, partly due to a Turkish poet and writer called The Fisherman Of Halicarnassos who was exiled to Bodrum because of his unpopular political views. His writings about Bodrum captured the imagination of like-minded romantics and were largely responsible for creating Bodrum's Bohemian atmosphere.
None of Turkey’s other holiday destinations have such a different image as Bodrum.
This lively town has something to offer for everyone. Day or night, Bodrum never stands still, with its numerous bars, restaurants, discos and maze of narrow winding streets crammed to bursting with all manner of shops.
Everyone has a different Bodrum of their own. Once you go you will fall in love not only with its natural beauty and historical sites but also with its friendly people and keep coming back. Who knows maybe you will decide moving to Bodrum to spend the rest of your life like many others did. We suggest you to take the Bodrum Peninsula Tour with TTA to discover the towns of Bodrum Peninsula.
ESSENTIAL INFORMATION
Tourist Information:
Phone : (90–252) 316 1091 Open seven days a week from 09.00 to 18.00
Important Telephone numbers
POLICE EMERGENCY: 155
RURAL POLICE (Jandarma) EMERGENCY: 156
FIRE EMERGENCY: 110
Health and Hospitals
Bodrum now has 3 Hospitals. All have the most modern equipment and are very well maintained. (
Universal-Hospital Bodrum, Konacik-Bodrum
(0252) 319 1515, Fax: (0252) 319 1516
For emergency all hospitals have a 24 h service
Private Hospital Bodrum (Özel Hastanesi)
Tel: (0252) 313 6566, Fax: (0252) 313 1298
State HospitalTel: 313 1420 – 1432 (13 Lines)
Chemists(Eczane)
Chemists are open daily from 8.00 AM until approximately 10.00 PM in high season. However, after normal business hours, one chemist remains open of the chemist 'On Duty' is posted on the door of all the chemists.
Telephones & Post Office :
Post office in Bodrum is open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. There are post office agencies in villages. There are many telephone booths which operate with telephone cards. These can be bought at post offices.
International code for Turkey is 90,
The Area code for Bodrum (and Mugla Province) is 252
For a local call: just dial the number
Trunk call: dial 0, then the area code and the number
International call: dial 00, then the country code, area code and the number.
Museums and Ancient Sites
Castle of St. Peter and Museum of Underwater Archaeology
In Turkey all museums are open all week except Mondays.
Opening hours: 08.30–12.00 – 13.30–17.30
WEATHER IN BODRUM
Altough known as a summer holiday town, Bodrum has a perfect climate in every season.Winter lasts only for 3 to 4 months, there is no snow it rains only. Than comes the spring. Everywhere is full of flowers, the sun is shinning continiously. Not as crowded as summer time but stil alive.
As the sea temperature is between16 to 25 degrees all year round, Bodrum is a great location for diving holiday at any time of the year.
PLACES TO SEE AROUND BODRUM WITH TURGUTREIS TOURS
EPHESUS,
VIRGIN MARY’S HOUSE,
PAMUKKALE,
DALYAN,
PRIENE-MILETUS-DIDYMA,
OLUDENIZ,MARMARIS,KUSADASI
THINGS TO DO WHILE IN BODRUM WITH TURGUTREIS TOURS
*SCUBA DIVING
*HORSE RIDING
*JEEP SAFARI
*COS
*RHODOS
*BODRUM NIGHT CLUB*CATAMARAN DISCO
Recommendations
DO NOT LEAVE BEFORE you have seen the following items:
*HAVING DELICIOUS SEA FOOD IN GUMUSLUK
*SHOPPING AT TURGUTREIS MARKET
*TAKING A BOAT TRIP TOWARDS AKYARLAR
*DIVING IN CRYSTAL CLEAR WATER OF AEGEAN SEA
*RELAXING IN TURKISH BATH
*VISITING BODRUM CASTLE MUSEUM
*STEPPING INTO ONE OF TURGUTREIS TOURS OFFICES AND SEE WHAT ELSE WE HAVE TO OFFER YOU INORDER TO MAKE YOUR DREAM HOLIDAY COME TRUE.
TURSAB-The Association of Turkish Travel Agencies
Our TURSAB Licence number:A-2751 TURGUTREIS TOURISM TRAVEL AGENCY
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Places Which You Must See
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 BODRUM CASTLE
The most prominent feature of Bodrum must be the Castle of St. Peter. Whether entering the town by land or sea, one cannot help but be struck by the Castle's sturdy presence. One of the world's best preserved monuments from medieval times, it stands as a solid testament to the Bodrum area as a place worth defending.
Bodrum Castle was built by knights of Rhodes in 15 century A.D. and it serves as the world’s biggest underwater archeological musuem in which a wide range of underwater findings are displayed.
One of the most attractive openings in the Castle is the private hall devoted exclusively to the display of the Carian princess dates back to 360 B.C.
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Mausoleum
2400 years ago from today satrap of Caria; King Mausolos’s wife Artemis 2nd built a monumental tomb, the Mausoleum one of the wonders of the ancient world, upon the death of her husband to immortalize the memory of him. The Mausoleum was completed around 350 BC.
And the beauty of the Mausoleum was not only in the structure itself, but in the decorations and statues that adorned the outside at different levels on the podium and the roof. These were tens of life-size as well as under and over life-size free-standing statues of people, lions, horses, and other animals.
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Antique Theatre of Bodrum
Foremost of the monumental constructions that lasted untill today from the period of antiquity is the classical Antique Theatre of Bodrum.It is one of the oldest theatres in Asia Minor.It has a capacity of 10.000 audience and three sections.Orchestra(Half circle),Scene(Stage Building) and Cavea (sitting area) It was built during the Carian reign in the Hellenistic age (330 - 30 BC.) It shows great similarities with the Epidauros Theatre in Greece. The stage was probably built in two stories.The radius of the Theatron site is 57m.
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Myndus Gate
Located on the west side of Bodrum, Myndus Gate is one of the two entrances of ancient Halicarnassus. It was part of the towns wall. The gate is named after the place Myndos because it faces the ancient Myndos place (now Gümüslük). It is described as Tripollion because the gate had three towers. In front of the gate was a ditch of 8 meters depth and 15 meters long. Tombs dates back to Hellenistic and Roman Times were found here in the last century. The soldier of Alexander The Great could hardly come into the town of Halicarnassos due to the strong city walls in 333 B.C.
Everyone has a different Bodrum of their own. Once you go you will fall in love not only with its natural beauty and historical sites but also with its friendly people and keep coming back.
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BEACHES
Turgutreis : 18 km from Bodrum and named after the famous Ottoman admiral Turgut Reis. It is a small town in its own right and combines a compact town center with several beaches and all amenties for tourists. An ideal surfing place.
Gümbet : Nearest beach to Bodrum and just 3 km. away. It is now a self contained resort with hotels, shops, bars, discos, banks and everything the tourist needs for 24 hours of non stop fun. Gümbet is also one of the most popular water sports centers
Bitez : Just 7 km. west of Bodrum. The winds are favorable for windsurfing. The beach is sandy here. There is a Turkish Delight factory here.
Ortakent : Nex bay to Bitez and just 13 km from Bodrum. In the early spring the village hosts an annual camel wrestling festival. There is very long sandy beach.
Kargi and Bagla : Kargi, known as Camel Beach, and Bagla is 16 km from Bodrum and there is nice beach here.
Akyarlar and Karaincir : 22 km from Bodrum and closest points to Cos (Greek Island) Winds here are ideal for windsurfing. This is one of the safest beaches for children on the peninsula. There is a tiny harbour.
Kadikalesi : 4 km next to Turgutreis and offers some of holiday resorts.
Gümüslük : 24 km from Bodrum and protected from modern development due to Myndos, an ancient site. The simple charm of the village has survived the influx of tourism. Rabbits are raised on the island at the end of the causeway a short paddle away. There are many seaside fish restaurants. A tranquil village.
Yalikavak : 18 km from Bodrum, small but developed town and offers everything required. There are many seaside cafes, restaurants and hotels.
Gündogan : Only a few minutes from Yalikavak and there are signs of antiquity in the hinterland.
Göl-Türkbükü :These villages, 18 km from Bodrum, are very close to each others and favorite places of many well-known Turkish artists and actors.
Torba : 6 km north of Bodrum and has two beaches. There are the remains of a Byzantine monastery.
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Historical Places Around Bodrum
ANCIENT CITY OF EPHESUS Ancient Ionian Greek city; its ruins lie near the modern village of Selcuk in Turkey. It was situated south of the Cayster River, and was the site of the Temple of Artemis. Traditionally founded by the Carians, it was one of the 12 Ionian Cities and was involved in the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. It was taken by Alexander the Great c.334 BC and prospered throughout the Hellenistic period. It passed to Rome in 133 BC; under Augustus it became the capital of the Roman province of Asia. It was an early seat of Christianity, visited by St. Paul, and the recipient of the Epistle to the Ephesians. The Goths destroyed the city and temple in AD 262; neither ever recovered. There are extensively excavated ruins at the modern site.
TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS:
To the right of the road leading to Kusadasi can be seen the ruins of the Temple of Artemis (Diana), one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Artemis, the virgin goddess of nature, and protectress of women in childbirth is mentioned in the Iliad with the phrase: Praise be to Artemis! She, who would water her horses at the reed-filled Meles river, then pass speedily through Smyrna on her golden chariot towards the vineyards of Coloros."
KUSADASI has a rich and varied history. A small settlement founded by lonian settlers and known as Neapolis, is known to have existed at the site even in ancient times, but it was always over shadowed by its mighty neighbor Ephesus.
After the Hellenistic Period, the Romans and the Byzantines dominated Kusadasi. The town was an important commercial port and a foreign colony under Venetian and Genoese merchants in the 14th century and was called ScalaNouva (the new port) and medieval chronicles mention the presence of foreign consulates and warehouses. The Turks preferred to live mainly inland on the foothills around Pilavtepe near the ancient settlement known as Andızkule.
After a period of various Seljuk princes and Crusader knights the ottoman Turks conquered Kusadasi in 1413.
The town took its present from during the early 17th century when Öküz Mehmet Pasha was a grand vizier of Ottoman Empire. He built the city walls, a mosque complex consisting of a mosque, an Inn and a Turkish bath.
There is a possibility to go to Kos and Rhodes (Greek Islands) by Ferryboat and Hydrofoils. But these are not guided tours. Ferryboats and hydrofoils depart early in the morning and return evening. Kos by ferry approximately 45 minutes; by hydrofoil 25 minutes Rhodes only by hydrofoil approximately 2 hours 15 minutes.
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