Hotel Club Ilyo Antalya

Best cultural tip for any...

by mixtake

Best cultural tip for any place that you visit in the world: Go out and meet local people! Here is a family from a village nearby the city of Antalya, enjoying one of their 300 days of sunshine per year. Just like the rest of Turkey, generations of families prefer to live together, effectively solving many social problems of Western cultures, like the enormous cost of social security for elderly and finding a baby sitter.

Fish Restaurant..

by Erkmen about Kismet Balikcisi

In Antalya you can find many touristy Restaurants.. However I prefer the ones where locals choose.. Kismet Balikcisi is my favourite Fish restaurant in Antalya.. Everytime I visit Antalya, I wont pass without eating there..

The fishes are fresh and really delicious, The starters are very tasty... .. And most important, you are having one of your tastiest fishess for a funny price.. (Half price compared with Fish restaurants in Istanbul)

The restaurant is located at the old "east bus Station" ( Eski Dogu Garaji)... You can reach there by 10 min. walking from the city center.. A place where local buses were leaving, now turned out to be a local market.. Inside the market there are also fish sellers and down the road, you will find the Fish restaurants.. There are around 6-7 Fish restaurants.. All are crowded at nights, and you can all see locals eating there.. So no hussle for tourists.. Instead of being ripped off in a touristy Fish restaurant inside the Kaleici, I suggest you to choose the ones outside Kaleici (Inside the castle) Seasonal fishes will be your favourite.. You choose what you want from a variety of fishes and they weight it first and cook afterwards.. And you pay according to the weight of your choosen fish..

Calamary, cooked shrimps are also a favourite..

If you are not filled up with fish try the deserts also..:)

Antalya Zoo

by budapest8

I didn`t go myself but heard that another family in our hotel went and said it was OK.
I cut and pasted the following text from the Local Antalya Metropolitan Municipality website.

Antalya Zoo which is located on a 330.000 square meters picnic area in Kepezaltý has 765 animals of 87 types.

A total of 125.650 persons visited our facility in year 2004 which 105.297 persons were on fare basis and 20353 persons were on free basis and the animal groups of the facility are as follows:
• Day time raptors.
• Night time raptors.
• Stork family.
• Duck family.
• Hens, pheasants, partridge, sea gulls
• Pigeons.
• Cranes.
• Pelicans.
• Parrots.
• Songbirds.
• African ostrich
• Apes.
• Rabbits
• Raptors
• Dogs.
• Bears.
• Cheetah
• Single nails
• Double nails
• Alligators
• Snakes.
Besides introducing various animal types living at various places of the world, at Antalya Zoo the following services are given:
• Performing of recovery of extinction animals at our zoo and providing of their maintenance, protection and to establish their multiplication for continuation of generation.
• By multiplying of domestic or some animal types that can be domesticated at our zoo to submit them to the service of our people as breeding purpose.
• To establish the leaving of natural environment of wild animals which have been injured due to incorrect hunting or fell sick after making their treatment and care.
• To supply clinical services for the purpose of conducting the treatment, vaccination, operations and all kinds of maintenance of exotic animal and other domestic animals.
• The conduct educational activities by the way of posters, brochure books, written or visual press organs at topics that will interest our people.

Antalya zoo, with its pleasure road between shelters, pounds with waterfalls, fountains and with its infrastructure suitable for picnic and as being a suitable visiting and resting area is accommodating more visitors every year.

Turkey - Antalya

by Intrepidduck

"Antalya: Attaleia"

I made Antalya a bit of a base when on a long and enduring journey from Korea to Spain. It's the sort of place which has everything - while being a large city it isn't to be avoided if travelling this part of the world.