12 June, Antalya
Anatolia Pansion 70TL (negotiated down from 80TL)

Like most museums, the Antalya museum served today to highlight my ignorance ... and my lousy memory! The museum focuses on local history, but there are such rich pickings in the surrounding hills, that the displays are impressive. We particularly enjoyed the statuary excavated from nearby Perge – Roman era works in marble, some copies of earlier Greek statues by well-respected sculptors, amongst them Zeus, Diana, Apollo and Aphrodite. We were also fascinated by the large terracotta burial jars from the Bronze Age. After a surfeit of intellectual stimulation, we strolled along the water front to photograph the beach we had swum at yesterday, had an early dinner, and later watched the sun set over the cliffs beside the old city harbour.

Antalya museum

Antalya beach