Archive for April, 2006
Watersports
There’s nothing like a walk through the Underwater Archaeology Museum to inspire the diver in you. The waters off Bodrum are full of caverns, caves, and reefs. Aegean Pro Dive Center, Neyzen Tevfik Cad. 212 (tel. 0252/316-0737; fax 0252/313-1296; http://aegeanprodive.com; open Apr-Oct), provides a safe and easy way to get you there. Dives with your own equipment run around $40 ($50 without), including lunch. They also offer 3- and 5-day packages, group rates, snorkeling for nondiving tagalongs, and PADI ... Keep reading >>
Getting Around Bodrum
The narrow and one-way streets of Bodrum discourage the use of a car. Although the waterfront spreads out over two harbors, downtown Bodrum is easy to cover with a pair of comfortable shoes and a bit of stamina. A scooter is a good option, because aside from solving the parking problem, you can get away with tooling around aimlessly down side streets or weaving unexpectedly through the pedestrian traffic on the waterfront promenade. For those lodging outside the city ... Keep reading >>
Getting To Bodrum
By Plane -- Visitors to Bodrum actually fly into Milas, about 32km (20 miles) away and reachable in under a half-hour by way of the coastal road. Turkish Airlines (tel. 0252/536-6597 at the Bodrum airport) has five daily direct flights from Istanbul, as well as one direct flight from Ankara, and connecting flights from other major domestic cities. With airfares on the rise in Turkey, a flight from Istanbul should run you around $150 in high season (slightly ... Keep reading >>
Bodrum History
840km (521 miles) to Istanbul; 240km (149 miles) to Izmir; 180km (112 miles) to Marmaris; 25km (16 miles) to Bodrum Airport
Less than 100 years ago, Turkish writer Cevat Sakir Kabaagaçli was sentenced to exile in the dungeon of St. Peter’s Castle as punishment for his politically incorrect writings. Times under the paranoid Abdulhamid II were harsh -- except the sultan apparently didn’t know that the prison had been closed a ... Keep reading >>
Bodrum Shopping
A short while ago nearly all of Bodrum’s commercial activities clustered in the area still called “çarsi†(market), a few streets to the south and east of the Post Office. Here butchers and ironmongers, grocers and sandal makers all plied their trade side by side. The tourism boom has replaced those modest tradesmen and shopkeepers with bars, souvenir shops and sellers of whatever is currently in vogue. Regrettably, but perhaps unavoidably, ... Keep reading >>
Bodrum Dedeman Hotel
Resort: 40 kms from Bodrum-Milas Airport, 2.5 kms from the city centre, view over Bitez Bay, the resort has 108 rooms ( 95 standard rooms, 10 corner suites, 3 suites, Terrace, Mikado, Garden).Rooms: Air conditioning and heating, direct-dial phone, minibar, TV, hair dryer, radio & music channels, electronic safebox, room service.Activities & Sports: Aquapark Dedeman Bodrum, outdoor swimming pool, Life Style Health & Beauty Centre; 2,250 ... Keep reading >>
Aegean Dream Resort Hotel
Aegean Dream is located on the seaside in Turgutreis which is one of Bodrum's most beautiful towns. Our single, double, family, suits and connection rooms have air conditioning, mini refrigerator, sattelite tv broadcast, hairdryer, safe box, direct line telephone connection, radio broadcast from tv, bathroom with shower, lavatory, furnished balcony/terrace. You can refresh yourself in the blue waters of the Aegean Sea and choose among the ... Keep reading >>
