Cycling to Antalya was an easy day. I left at an altitude of 800 m, and, after a last climb to 925 m there was the long downhill to Antalya, at sea level. Temperature on top of the pass was 18°, and five km further it had climbed to 32 ° already.  Furthermore, after one week in the pure mountain air, I reentered the pollution of a big city, so I felt quite uncomfortable at the beginning.

In Antalya I paid a visit to the well preserved and restored old town with the famous Hadrian gate and the broken minaret. Later then, I met Bettina and her family, Germans who live in Antalya. They would be my guides for the next day.

We started the next day with the visit of a climbing park, and then visited Phaselis, an old town founded some 2500 years ago by settlers from Rhodes. Well preserved with a nice theatre aqueduct and agora (marketplace)

For the rest of the day we relaxed and chatted about the situation of German immigrants in Turkey, quite an interesting subject.

Last pass before cycling down to Antalya

The broken minaret in the old city of Antalya

Phaselis 2500 year old theatre